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Great theme! I love the use of the harpsichord here, really brings the listener into that ancient fantasy setting of the original artwork. I really appreciated the clear shifts in mood as we move from one story beat to the next, it was a really effective bit of musical storytelling! Awesome job!

Really cool entry! I love that steady rhythm played by pizzicato strings throughout most of the piece, it really gave a sense of building as the different elements start swirling around it and darkening the overall mood of the piece. I felt that there could've been a little bit more emphasis on the romantic elements seen in the original artwork, but this piece really sells the impending dread building toward the untimely demise of the two lovers! Great stuff!

This is fantastic! Really love the shifts in dynamics between the quieter intro and outro and the more grand and epic middle section. All of the major beats were really clear in the parts of the story that they were trying to convey. It was interesting hearing your more optimistic interpretation of the original artwork, I expected more people to lean into the tragedy angle of the last window in the piece, so having an uplifting ending was surprising but satisfying! The mix was really nice and clear too! Great work!

Thanks for the kind words and the feedback! Yeah, there were definitely some moments dynamically that I wish I could've had time to fix, and I'll likely go back after the jam to make some tweaks so that there are bigger contrast between the highs and lows throughout the piece. As far as the ending goes, I would've loved to extend it a bit and let it breathe a little bit longer, but the 2 minute time limit for jam submissions prevented me from doing so haha. I figured I could either cut that harp outro entirely, or just start it a little bit earlier and not have a big ritardando at the very end. I liked the harp outro, so I opted for the latter option haha. But that's another detail that I'd love to stretch out a bit when I revisit this piece after the jam ends! Thanks again for listening!

Thanks so much for the incredibly kind words! I'm thrilled to hear that this was the vibe that you envisioned as you were creating your piece, your vision for the piece seemed super clear when I first saw it and started writing music for it! Thank you for creating this beautiful artwork, it was really easy to be musically inspired by it!

Thank you for the great feedback! Yeah, I would've liked to shape the melody some more with more ornamentations and whatnot. However, I was worried that making the melody more complex might overcomplicate what I felt should be a fairly simple melody to convey the timeless story of a tragic romance, so I opted to keep it fairly simple (plus I also started running out of time to mess around with the melody some more haha). I'd love to toy around with the main theme and see if I can find some nice ways to add more color without losing the original intent of the theme! Thanks so much again for listening, I'm thrilled that you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much for the kind words, and thanks for giving it a listen!

Thanks so much for the kind words! I'm really glad to hear that the vision that I had came through in the music. The prologue observation is spot on! I was very much imagining this piece being featured as a prologue to a game or film that would be setting the stage for the events to come in the story. Thanks again for listening!

Thanks so much! I'm really glad to hear that the music really fit the theme and narrative concept, that's where a lot of my decision making went into. I'd definitely like to keep on working on this one, I'll let you know if and when I have that ready! Thanks again for listening!

Really enjoyed this one! I loved the contemplative feel of these tracks, perfectly fits the puzzle game theme. Really great job combining that spooky haunted house feel with the quiet, meditative vibe of puzzle solving! The smaller ensemble size gave your soundtrack an intimate feel to the whole piece. Great work!

Really killer soundtrack! Love the usage of that main motif throughout. Really great amount of polish on the mixing and production, especially given the 48 hour timeframe. I'm not sure how much the music evokes the 'Freedom' theme for me, but that zombie apocalypse vibe felt very effectively established! Impressed that you were able to get all of this done for the jam, awesome stuff!

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I appreciate the detailed analysis, I was really happy with how the percussion turned out! And your comment about sounding like it came from a professional composer really means a lot. I really need that confidence booster sometimes, so I really appreciate it haha. Thanks so much for listening!

Haha yeah, I was worried that I might've been leaning into too many clichés with the instrumentation, but I guess they're also clichés because they work so well! I'm glad to hear that the instrumentation  hit the mark for you, thanks for listening!

Thank you so much for the feedback! I appreciate the acknowledgement of the silence and echoes throughout the piece, I always find that silence can lend itself really well to making a piece sound more primordial and organic. So thanks for noticing that! I love me some Donkey Kong Country music, so that comparison means a lot! Thanks for listening!

This is one of my absolute favorites! I love how you transition from your main theme to that little aside at :25 by removing the percussion entirely and letting the xylophone take over completely. I also really appreciate that you add that higher pitched counter melody/harmony in the xylophone when you restate your main theme at :35 to add a new element to that section, instead of just repeating the first section again with no new material. Those types of little details are what keep a looping video game track sounding fresh after listening to it repeat over and over again.

There's a real clarity to your arrangement and overall mix that feels very professionally done. The orchestration is nice and sparse, and the music feels like it has room to breathe and isn't too cluttered. Also, that pan flute sound is great! What plugin did you use for that?

Overall, I absolutely love this piece. Excellent work!

Really cool track! I love your use of the steam and bubble popping sounds as part of the rhythm section, it's such a simple but effective tool to really put the listener into the 'hot spring' headspace. Your main melody is very strong, although I feel that  you could've been used a bit more variation in the melodic rhythm and shape as the melody did feel a bit repetitive for me after a while. I really loved your instrumentation choices across the board, especially the sound you used for those chime-y chords. Great job with this piece, I really dig it!

I love the playful vibes of this one! Really fun and bouncy track, which is a surprising departure from the slower tranquil vibe that many others went with for the Hot Spring theme. I love the counterpoint between the violin and piano early on in the track, as well as the flute and piano just after that. The steel drums were an excellent choice to bring a more lively and aquatic feeling to the piece, and a really interesting juxtaposition with the rest of the more traditional orchestral instruments! Really enjoyed listening to this one, great job!

Thank you! Yeah, I was really pleased with how the percussion turned out in this one haha. Thanks so much for listening!

Thanks so much! I'm really glad that you liked it. Yeah, I agree about the percussion at the beginning being a bit too long. I wanted to extend the piece a little bit and give it some room to build before the fuller orchestration comes in at around the 20 second mark, but in hindsight I probably should've added a few extra elements to that percussion intro to make it feel less repetitive haha. Thanks for listening, and I appreciate the feedback!

I love the mood of this one! It paints a vivid picture in my mind of a dusty town filled with a bunch of grizzled dinosaurs who are the last of their kind. I can imagine a triceratops with a wicked scar and eye patch living in this particular town haha.

I really love the interplay between the bass and melodic parts. That call and response sort of feel really gives the track that right balance between melancholy and triumphant that you were going for. I also love your use of that squeaky lower frequency noise that lands on the downbeats throughout the piece, it has a 'dinosaur stomping around' sort of effect that feels really cool. Great work!

I love the droning feel of this one! Those looping arpeggios give the piece such a floaty and hypnotic feel. It really evokes this feeling of laying down in a nice warm bath, closing your eyes, and just letting your troubles wash away haha. The pads that play over the arpeggios bring a bit of intrigue to the piece for me. The dissonance and unpredictability makes the piece just a little bit unsettling, which I really dig. I do wish that there was a small melody played over the rest of the piece, but I'm always a sucker for a strong theme so I'm biased haha. This is a really great mood-setting piece though, awesome work!

This is an excellent set of tracks! I love the ideas you had regarding the way this dinosaur town would develop from day to night, and it absolutely can be heard through the music you wrote. I think the  overall mood of the Twilight track makes it my favorite of the three, but I want acknowledge that accelerando in the Daylight track. That tempo change was so unexpected but was such a cool surprise, I loved that little touch! I love that jazzy feel in the Moonlight track with the use of sax, horns, and upright bass. It really gives the music this sense of roaming a now bustling moonlit city now that the dinosaurs have all come back to life.  All three tracks perfectly encapsulate the vibes you were trying to go for, and I'm super impressed by the level of polish with only a few days to get it all done. Great work!

Love this one! So funky, I could listen to that bass groove all day! What plug-in did you use for the bass? I really like that tight e-piano melody that comes in at about :43 into the piece. I overall love the laid back feel of this track, and that underlying quirky vibe really puts me in that headspace of strolling through a strange town inhabited only by dinosaurs. Great job on this!

Fun game! I got a good chuckle out of the tutorial dialogue haha. I appreciate having the option of switching between moving slowly and very fast, it added a nice bit of variation and strategy. Fun stuff!

Fun interpretation of the theme! I love the juggling mechanic, it's a cool, unique premise that added a nice level of challenge and depth. Good stuff!

Real fun gameplay! I love the visual style, and the news broadcast framing is a nice touch! That final section of the level is brutal haha. Cool game, I would love to see this expanded!

Platforming and Tetris, what a combo! Real fun idea, and neat interpretation of the theme. My only gripe is that there were a couple of moments when a new block was coming down and I felt that I was out of options of spots that I could jump to in order to survive. But the game looks and plays great and I had a ton of fun playing it! Good job!