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A jam submission

Arctic trapView project page

Submitted by kitman kit — 2 days, 17 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to Theme#272.7442.824
Sense of Atmosphere#292.6872.765
Composing Quality#292.4012.471
Listenability#292.4582.529
Execution#292.4582.529
Overall#292.5722.647
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity#302.6872.765

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Really enjoyed the outro of the song!
It's  aa nice piece but I felt some room and heavyness(bass), maybe the synth (although awesome tone) were not the best fo the painting.
Some harshness in the mix mix too, maybe that took a bit from the sense of atmosphere too.

Good job! Take care :)

Submitted

To me it's ambient and could evoke frozen wastes.  My beef is it doesn't on a macro level progress to like higher intensity or vary up or down into different sub sections with their own character.  It's the same beef I have with Jazz that wanders decently but it wanders -so- *uniformly* that you wonder if there's punctuations or phrase identities at all.  It's decent but it needs a sense of story.  Everything else though I was pretty happy with.

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Submitted

Fairly alright submission. The chose of synths doesn't quite come across as ambient to me or invoke the images of the art provided. They also seem to have clashing frequencies, especially when the clarinet comes in. There's never quite a spot where the track feels like it's creating space for ambience or providing sound design that creates a sense of space or room. The chords come in predictably, they don't seem to be individually EQ'd which makes everything sound like it's squished down into a low-mid space without any panning to create a more dynamic range. 

Lastly, all but one instrument just cutting out slight of abrupt at the 4 minute mark only for the track to continue the same loop for another minute didn't really help considering the instrument chosen has a very audible high frequency pinch that's apparent through the last minute, creating an unfortunate dog whistle like effect. 

It's a very nice piece, but going forward I would heavily invest as much time, if not more, into mixing and producing than composing. 

Submitted

Very neat piece of music! I especially like the vibe you establish with that beginning synth part.

There's a couple pieces of feedback I'd like to share with you:

1.) I would've liked to have had a little more time spent on the home chord when you resolve to it, instead of moving on to the next passage in the same measure. You do a lot of nice building up to that point and I'm not sure the payoff was quite as fulfilling if you immediately go to something different each time you reach the resolution, IMO.

2.) The clarinet was a nice addition, but I think incorporating more dynamics and spots for the 'player' to breathe (ex. making the last note of the clarinet's phrase shorter) would have made it feel a little more natural/musical. After all, clarinet players (and really any musician that produces a sound using their breath) can only play for so long on one breath!


Other than that, I enjoyed what you submitted. Keep up the good work :)