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A jam submission

Cat through spaceView project page

Submitted by purpleskky — 18 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Challenge#34.1674.167
Creativity#63.5003.500
Overall#73.2503.250
Mixing#82.8332.833
Composition#102.5002.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Title
Cats through chiptune space

Description
I put down an initial draft for the first half of this pretty fast, then didn't have any ideas for it until the last few days.

I ended up extending it, then writing this jubilant final section with a key change I thought was awesome, at first, then realized I couldn't integrate it into the song at all. So I spent the last hour before the jam closed trying to round out the song without overdoing it.

Having a drum loop as flexible as the amen break really helped here, I used a few of the iterations of it from the linked download. Meowsynth worked well as a lead, but I struggled to integrate the pipe drops a lot. Curious to hear what I think of this song a few days from now with fresh ears... Let me know what you all think

Plugins used
Apart from Meowsynth I used the FL synth Kepler for the bass and arp

Link(s) to your submission
https://soundcloud.com/spencer-gann-202439625/catsthrough-space?si=78679da525244689bd84ab01aa04f458&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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Comments

Submitted

I particularly like the second part (from 0'41"). By the way, you've taken the liberty of making a rather abrupt change at this point, which nevertheless comes across superbly. It sounds very natural to the ear. It's great because they're very different.

Developer

Thanks, appreciate it

Submitted(+1)

This is really creative and incorporates the challenge well. It's also surprisingly well mixed for how chaotic the composition is. I would've preferred a little more consistency to make the music feel more cohesive, but I can totally see why you chose this direction instead.

Submitted(+1)

I heard this and saw the comments and was immediately like "oh no, was there a specific sound I was supposed to use for the metal pipe??" haha. I like the reversed sample though.
The amen break was a really nice compliment to the rest of the track, and I liked the meowsynth implementation and how it works with the artwork haha. I think it does get a little chaotic around :32 or so. The ending I don't mind really, and in fact that last resolving "meow" gave me a laugh, haha. Great job!

Submitted

Only things that were a bit weird for me were the ubrupt ending & I think some parts / samples are out of key?
Not sure if intentional but I didn't fancy it much...
Oh and I also agree with TheSnowly on the pipe, maybe some editing to make it fit into the song's atmoshpere a bit would make it better!

Other than that - pretty neat composition, keep on creating!

Developer

Yeah I feel like the song needed another bar to finish, it feels abrupt. Thanks

Submitted(+1)

I also reversed the metal pipe sfx in my song! I had never really used sampler before so figuring out how to make the pipe sfx and amen break do what I wanted was a bit of a learning curve.

Submitted

I like that the song never come back to any melodies or anything played before, it's always changing! and that chaos works very well! Though the metal pipe sfx is a bit too loud and feel out of place, it's great that you tried to Experiment a bit with tweaking the sound.

Also the world need more music with the hit sfx so kudos to you!

Nice job!

Developer

Thanks!