KOBUGE-Games/minilens

New musics

ObaniGemini opened this issue · 4 comments

I will make some new musics for the game.
I have no idea when I'll do them but it's needed to replace all the others, excepet maybe the main menu one.

Reasons

The actual musics are not fitting with the game style, and are too dirty.

Hm, I like the current tracks personally.

Edit: I'll listen to each of them and try to give some feedback :)

  • main_menu.ogg: This one is the soul of Minilens, we can't change it :P A remastered version could be nice (it's currently 22.05 kHz, and the instrument starting at 0:19 sounds a bit too saturated), but the general theme should stay IMO.
  • music_1.ogg: It has a nice post-apocalyptic feel, I like it. It's maybe a bit slow to start and too "dark", but I like the industrial atmosphere. It's a bit long, for many levels players don't reach 2 minutes in game, because they either have finished the level already or need to restart it, and thus restart the music.
  • music_2.ogg: I kinda like it because I got used to it (even though the music is chosen randomly, I feel like it's always this one that shows) and it sounds "Minilens" too. But trying to be a bit objective it's true that it's a bit messy, with the various instruments not really paying attention to each other (and the main voice never stops, it's a bit tiring).
  • music_3.ogg: Again I really like the industrial/post-apocalyptic atmosphere. If we find it too dark for a cute puzzle platformer, we could reserve it for the hardest levels :D The duration is pretty good too (1:10).
  • music_4.ogg: The intro is a bit too long, there's 35 s until you get something else than drums, and then 17 s more until the theme starts. The theme itself is nice, though a bit repetitive too. A remastered version could be interesting, for Minilens or another Kobuge game (maybe Kumquat?).
  • music_5.ogg: Sounds pretty good, I like the guitar and the glockenspiel or whatever playing arpeggios towards the end. Duration is good too.

So I'd definitely keep:

  • main_menu
  • music_3
  • music_5

Could use a rework:

  • music_1
  • music_2

Needs some heavy lifting:

  • music_4

This is true for main_menu.ogg

Rest is false, I'm OK with post-apocalyptic but it's still a puzzle game.
The musical ambience is more boring than immersive or filling the game experience that is actually quite empty.

Need to work on it, also because the music player changed and musics are more played.