Very nice soundtrack, I like the jazzy feeling, reminds me classic adventure games. Pretty neat sound.
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The Traveler's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #2 | 4.316 | 4.316 |
| Impression | #3 | 4.184 | 4.184 |
| Overall | #3 | 4.174 | 4.174 |
| Correlation to theme | #5 | 4.158 | 4.158 |
| Composition | #7 | 4.184 | 4.184 |
| Quality | #13 | 4.026 | 4.026 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
Listen on SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/poard/sets/the-traveler
For my soundtrack, I chose to go for an OpenMPT/Modplug Tracker-like style of chiptune, taking inspiration from various 16-bit era games, recent indie games, as well as other chiptune artists such as Jayster or Tancla. The soundtrack sits at 11 tracks, totaling a little over 12 and a half minutes, so there's a wide variety of content for you to enjoy in an easily digestible amount of time!
When making the soundtrack, I imagined the game being an indie RPG that's mostly about exploring the world and conversing with the occasional NPCs rather than battling or anything like that. The story itself is about your character, the Traveler, leaving their home to make a year-long journey, experiencing the four seasons along the way, starting with spring in the 3rd track, Raining, and ending with winter in the 9th track, Snowing. Each track is a little more similar to a "moment in gameplay" rather than a standalone song like on an actual soundtrack, so you'll hear some of them transition into each other, have contextual sounds, or have sound effects and all that neat stuff.
For a more in-depth description of what each track represents, check out the tracklist on my submission's project page!
https://poard.itch.io/the-traveler
Message from the artist:
This is the first project I've ever completed, and I'm pretty satisfied with what I made, and I hope you like it too!
Theme:
Story of Seasons
Picture theme
How does it fit the theme?
I chose to take inspiration from both Story of Seasons and the picture, but mainly the former.
As said in the description, the seasons the main character experiences are an integral part of the game, both signifying progression in their year-long journey, and a sense of difficulty as winter gets ever closer. This can be heard in the tracks Raining, Sunny, Cloudy, and Snowing, clearly representing each of the seasons.
For the picture, the connection might be a little bit more of a stretch, but I think I managed anyway.
Unlike the obvious idea that there are 4 seasons, the picture clearly has 5 "sides" coming out of the character in the middle. While you could interpret the seasonal songs as representing the 4 colorful sides of the picture, you might be wondering, then what represents the darkness? What I did was add a track titled, "Desolate," which plays as fall turns to winter. It's tonally completely different from the previous songs; it interrupts the flow, and that's exactly what I wanted it to feel like. I thought maybe what the darkness represents is the main character's realization that their journey would become significantly harder and more lonely as the sharp winds and snowstorms come rolling in their direction, leading into the track Snowing. I also believe it gives the track Home (Reprise) more meaning, that even after all that, you still managed to reach home and are rewarded with the chance to rest and celebrate the holidays for another year.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/poard/sets/the-traveler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-PFEy5UZI
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