This sounds to me like it was written to be heard with environmental sounds, surrounded by nature. The sound of the wind sweeping through the fields and tree branches, birds chirping across the pond, gentle water streams... This soundtrack conjures this type of peaceful tranquility in my mind. Easily one of my favorite entries so far.
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Timelapse's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Quality | #34 | 4.110 | 4.222 |
Impression | #47 | 3.785 | 3.889 |
Composition | #54 | 3.731 | 3.833 |
Overall | #59 | 3.677 | 3.778 |
Creativity | #60 | 3.623 | 3.722 |
Correlation to theme | #112 | 3.136 | 3.222 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
The genre of this soundtrack is Folk and Indie. It was inspired by Death Stranding and Life Is Strange OSTs. I used Ableton and few synths, a guitar, a ukulele and my voice. There are very few tracks as I didn't want to layer the instruments too much to keep lofi vibes and a serene feeling through the whole soundtrack.
The first track is the beginning of the game and the discovering of a new world, probably in ruins.
These ruins gently go to the second track (Walking Around) representing the desolation of time passing.
The journey passes by nature (World Tour) and the things that are frozen in time, meaning it hasn't the notion of time, time passes but it doesn't have any incidence on the fact that nature will be nature, whether time passes or not.
After the kind of void with the previous track, there is the rediscovering of the beauty of nature (Rediscover) and its greatness.
The game ends with the last track (Voyage End) all the encounters made before disappears with time but it is not the end, only the end of the journey. There will be other encounters and other adventures coming.
As I'm a poor game designer, I can only say that a game like Journey, Death Stranding are great examples of time passing and exploring the mechanics of travelling. I was inspired by Life Is Strange but not for its way of playing with time.
Message from the artist:
There are a few tracks to be in a game that could be called Timelapse where the player has to travel through the time passing and its fatal beauty. The Folk and Indie vibes are to keep the journey relaxing and focus on time passing, not on music or even nice landscapes.
This is a bit solemn, you can just enjoy the tracks :)
Theme:
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/jordan-brouard-802881982/sets/timelapse
Soundtrack use permission
For game jams only
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