The Ostrich Run

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The Ostrich Run

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This is the menu song for Ostrich Jump 4, has as Reggae type feel mixed with 16 bit game midi songs. I wrote this today in about an hour, I'm working on variations of it for the gameplay score so I'll post those on here when I release the game, I don't want everything you hear in the game to be in other submissions.

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Coop

2009-12-29 09:48:53

Nice sound, but a little slow.

To be honest, if it's an Ostrich run, I'd have thought it would have been a lot faster - those things can really get a good head of steam going if you let them.

I think that the piano isn't bad here, but there are one or two areas that do need some work on them, in order to give a more rounded feel. Don't fade the intro in over so long, it just seems too quiet. If you';re going for a crescendo, give it a chance, by starting louder and building the sound up quicker.

Sounds a little Eastern European to me, on reflection, that's a good place to start with, but it needs something else to perhaps cross a culture barrier.

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The-Mercenary responds:

Thanks, but this is the Menu song, so it' quieter and slower. There is a second part to this that's much faster paced that will serve the gameplay. It fades because it has to loop, and for something like this it makes more sense for it to fade and come back then to loop perfectly. I think the "Koto" is what makes it sound Eastern, but that's a Japanese instrument, it just sounds different when its in midi form and its normally a melody instrument, I used it for chords/rhythm so it sounds more percussive.

Haggard

2009-12-23 09:35:39

Good

The 8bit/16bit feel of this piece is very nice, takes me back to some old classic games, heh.

The intro is done nice as well, the build up is done very carefully and the song developes at a pretty good speed. I also like the rhythm of the piano very much, it's very driving.

However, the lead melody (the one that starts at 0:23) is sometimes all over the place the first time it can be heard. This sounds a bit strange. Later on in the piece the melody fits quite well to the other instruments, but here it sounds a bit out of place.

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The-Mercenary responds:

I can see why you might say that, but I wanted it to get complex(0:35) because the part following it is very simple, and the other purpose is that it goes back to it later in the song, if I changed it or took it out, it would sound unfamiliar and seem out of place later on in the song. Sometimes music sounds wierd the first time you hear it, but it makes more sense as you keep listening to it.

soundhacker

2009-10-26 12:43:42

did u recreate it????

did u recreate this or is it the actual original,
its not bad tho ill give u that!!!!!

The-Mercenary responds:

Its original, I wrote it from scratch for the game.