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A jam submission

System ST91 - NeoAquAView project page

Music inspired by the theme: " Two Worlds"
Submitted by System ST91 (@SystemST91) — 12 minutes, 51 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Quality#14.6524.652
Impression#24.3044.304
Overall#24.1744.174
Creativity#64.3484.348
Composition#104.1744.174
Correlation to theme#763.3913.391

Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
Created in OpenMPT tracker (Impulse Tracker format)

Genre: Electronic, synth, y2k or Cyberwave Breaks

Artist comment:
Note:
The game is inspired by "3D low-poly Japanese Shmups" from the 90s - Very Arcade-ish game.
This game should look like it was released for PS1 or Sega Saturn consoles.

This Shmups game takes place in the distant future, where there is a so-called "NeoAquA" Force, which connects its specially trained soldiers to a virtual, web environment (Dolphin Server) and its mission is to search for and eliminate dangerous viruses, web attacks or misinformation ( visually enemies look like low-poly-glitch-robots or various mecha-shapes).

As the entire population is mentally connected to the web and plagued by various areas of cyber warfare, it is up to the "NeoAquA" Force to ensure the security of the public "Dolphin" server from viruses or dangerous attacks or mental manipulation of the population by installing dangerous software into the individual's mind.

The game has a choice of several "NeoAquA" Force characters and each has a different type of combat cyber-space ship.

The goal of the game is to go through insecure web servers (locations that look like virtual cities) that are gradually or completely infected with Cyber-viruses or contain misinformation and turn people against each other.

The game visually is a combination of water/Ocean aesthetics combined by the web cyberpunk world. Cyber-Spaceships have a design reminiscent of water creatures, crustaceans or even dolphins, and lasers resemble water splatters or water waves.

The depicted world in the "Dolphin" server is full of combinations of blue, white and pastel colors .... Dolphin server is a secure virtual urban environment full of peace, where most connected people are located. They live their lives, whether in real life or on the web.

But if you enter in to the unprotected servers, they act dark, mysterious, lifeless.
Some already controlled servers (worlds) look like a dark neo-industrial city, full of neon texts, giant "mecha" machines .... These hostile environments look very dangerous and unwelcome.

About these tracks:

1. - First track - "Level one - In to the Dolphin Server" (Safe Zone)

It is such an introductionpro for a player who visits the Web-City, which is highly protected place thanks to the "NeoAquA" Force.

Here it will be possible to return after meeting the mind and buy or improve your cyber-spaceship.

Very peaceful place.

2. - Second track - "Level two - Protect Damaged communication links" (Not-Safe zone)

The first mission takes the player to an older server environment, where it was previously protected, but enemy bots improve their attack methods and break the security codes of this server.

Here, for the first time, the player is ready to attack a random group of so-called "Dark-bots", who eliminate anything that is outside their script.

The environment is dark, lifeless, but there are still various buildings of the then web-city.

Theme:

Two Worlds

How does it fit the theme?
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Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/systemst91/sets/neoaqua-ost?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Megaman Battle Network vibes in the theme haha. Love that 7/8 time signature in the second track! Very immersive ambient stuff.

Submitted(+1)

Very fun and coherent. I love the 90s style : trackers are so cool.

Submitted(+1)

Love the chill vibes and how the tracks take on more energy as the drums come in. Great sound selection too!

Submitted(+1)

Awesome vibes, and your story is very interesting! Would love to see such a game comming out, everything was there by closing my eyes, great job!

Submitted(+1)

just take all my stars bro u earned every single one of them holy hecceroni

Submitted(+1)

Yoooo this is great, the palette is superb for this
I love this so much!! This is such a MMMM
This is so good⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Submitted(+1)

This is stellar, you nailed this absolutely, take my money plz-
I have no words for the music, it's just stellar bgm for a game I wish I could play! Landed the aesthetic handily. Really nice well thought out concept too, probably the most crystalized concept I've seen all jam.

Also that COVER ART is PERFECTION and I wish there was a category for it, because this would win that category EASY

Also OpenMPT? Absolutely based.

Submitted(+1)

I love this style of soundtrack, and I don't even know what to call it. These are both so cool and I love the art as well!

Submitted(+1)

hey yo, this absolute banger. I like the atmosphere of the song. it really have that a water level song. really cool dude, keep it up.

Submitted(+1)

THIS IS Y2K, and everything I love about the aesthetic. The cool synth house music, the 7/8 of the 2nd song, the business of it all never making me board, and that cover art... god damnit I need to play this game and give you all my money for it. So much effort into the world building and design of both the art AND music. I love it all!