high praise! no one lives under the lighthouse has beautiful environments.
don't worry, you're not the only one who's been stuck there. we wanted to find a better balance between that dread and also ease-of-access, but ran out of time to iterate more on it.
i have no idea how to play this but i respect the effort it takes to have an account sign-up for a game jam game lol. really like the music. thanks for sharing!
really nice melodies throughout, and uses a lot of unexpected non-diatonic stuff in a way that i haven't heard much in this jam. really enjoyed this. thanks for sharing :)
majestic, rich, and impactful. really beautiful call and response found throughout this whole thing. i think your battle theme is really well executed, and is grandiose in a way that i haven't heard elsewhere in the jam so far. awesome work. thanks for sharing :)
yeah, we wanted to come back and extend out the latter tracks and make a continuous mix, but we both work full-time on opposite schedules, and we also design all of our sounds and drums and stuff, so we just ran out of time unfortunately. i think we might come back and do this and post it in the discord server later. thanks for listening and for the kind words :)
my favorite thing about this ost is that you manage to find multiple vibes/emotional spaces throughout the ost. it's really dynamic; sometimes it's wistful, sometimes it's funky, sometimes it's meditative. this dynamism is something i associate with really good games (and art in general), and i think that it helps the whole thing to be much more emotionally impactful. great work. thanks for sharing :)
thank you so much :) i think that's exactly the sort of thing we were going for, and i'm not sure that everyone has this specific experience, so i'm happy that it comes across!
bittersweet, haunting, and introspective. i think you find some really beautiful spiritual spaces in this ost. i don't really have any feedback; this is really impressive work even if you had the entire duration of the jam to work on it. thanks for sharing :)
wandering and curious. the sounds and melodies you found fit together in this space that sounds naive (this is a good thing; like a kitten exploring!!) and optimistic. if i heard this in a video game, i'd be delighted. if you wanted a fun direction to explore in, try some plucky low-pass filters on your leads with some high-feedback delays afterwards; i get a lot of my favorite sounds doing that to arps and melodies that are along this direction. thank you for sharing :)
wow i loved this. it definitely will not be for everyone, but some of the rhythmic and melodic spaces you discover in the second track were extremely inspiring for me - i wouldn't change anything. liked it enough to add to my offline library, which is pretty rare. please keep doing what you're doing. thank you for sharing :)
right out of the gate, super raw and wonderful steel string tone. this whole thing is meditative, calming, and sweet. it puts me in a headspace of nostalgia and acceptance. really lovely call and responses with strong melodies throughout. thanks for sharing :)
has an extremely tuned sense of space. i hear these songs and can envision the different spaces that i'd be occupying as i hear them. super cohesive and fun. thanks for sharing :)
thank you!!! both ty and i come from a dnb background so we had to fit at least one dnb song in hahaha. i'm glad that the underlying, like, somber quality came through throughout the OST, it's something we were worried about :)
easily one of my favorite OSTs in this jam so far. i am also someone who cannot help but make touhou adjacent-music so this is super up my alley lol; showing this to all my friends who keep making fun of me for this. no feedback, just keep making music please. thanks for sharing :)
thanks for the detailed feedback!! yeah i'm totally with you; we focused really hard on having tight, memorable loops with strong leitmotifs that built throughout the OST, which make sense when you're literally in a bullet hell game. in this format, if we'd had more time, I'd like to have doubled each of the faster tracks towards the end with some extra harmonies and melody variations. hindsight is 20/20 lol
we're talking about doing an extended and/or continuous mix after the jam (obviously can't add it to the release now). i'll happily send it your way if we get around to it :)
this hits an emotional note that i haven't heard in many of the other osts. it's spacey, gritty, and lower-fidelity (in a good way) in a really charming way that i associate with games i've long been inspired by (some akira yamaoka, maybe some 90s/2000s pc games). all of the songs are great, but i really like the textural spaces that are hit in the place that consumes (especially those more abstract atonal sounds that come in near the end). thanks for sharing :)
delicate and sincere. i really like the development of the melodic themes going through this. the piano in love you, farewell is harmonically super up my alley and i liked it a lot. lots of comments on technical production stuff here, and i don't think it's as problematic as portrayed in this comment section. that stuff comes with experimentation, practice, and working with other people (very important); the most important part is to just keep writing because you like writing music. thanks for sharing :)
there's some really nice compositions here. sort of bouncy, swingy, and sultry. really nice synth work. i think the melodies develop nicely and conclude nicely towards the end. thanks for sharing :)
feels somber, atmospheric, and glacial. this is harmonically super up my alley, i really appreciate what you're doing here. the chaos of the composition towards the end of at summer's end hits really hard. thanks for sharing :)
childlike and whimsical, which sounds like what you were going for. i don't have too many notes, other than it reminded me of some games i played as a kid. thanks for sharing :)
shimmering and groovy. breaking through with the drum work near the end really elevated the whole thing. there's a ton of detail here, and the mixing is really solid. favorite: heartbeat. thanks for sharing :)
eclectic while also tonally consistent. one of the most upbeat and fun things i've heard so far in this jam. really interesting take on the theme. favorite: delusional morons. thanks for sharing :)
