Ludum Dare #44compo

Ephemera

by atmospherium

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.77

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.59

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.07

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Wanted to learn Unity's visual effects pipeline, so I decided to make another music vizualization kinda thing. I had hoped for things to be at least a little bit interactive, but I ran out of time.

For best quality download the from itch.io, but I also took a rough screen recording if you don't want to download the whole thing.

Anyways, here's a little ditty I wrote this weekend about a spaceship and her crew being attacked by unknown forces.

Tags: #abstract, #music

Comments10

Adam Clayden30 Apr 2019, 14:27

It's pretty flashy and it's a pretty cool effect you've achieved with the time limit. I didn't really see the theme fitting in with it though. Maybe you could have added some sort of rythm mechanic similar to Elite Beat Agents? That way you'd have a "health bar" that is kept up through the player's actions

atmospheriumauthor30 Apr 2019, 20:48

@adam-clayden, thanks for the feedback! One of these days I'll try to do an actual rhythm game and see what I can come up with.

As far as theme goes, it inspired the underlying "space ship crew barters their lives to protect others" concept, but it's not necessarily as apparent as I'd originally planned.

OccultOne1 May 2019, 02:13

Excellent submission as usual! The music had some serious Battlestar Galactica Vibes for me, so if that was intended, well done indeed. Fascinated by the text effects you accomplished, has some awesome applications for any future rhythm game. I missed the theme but that's okay (We outright ignored the theme this go around so I'm not throwing any stones). Great work!

atmospheriumauthor3 May 2019, 00:01

@occultone, I wasn't picturing Battlestar specifically, but now that you bring it up I'm sure that it was subconsciously informing my sound decisions. I love that futuristic, ethnically-ambiguous, rhythmically interesting stuff that shows up in sci-fi.

fashionbatman3 May 2019, 00:04

At the beginning I was like "this kind of reminds me of the band between the buried and me" and then at the end i was like "oh hell yeah". This looked and sounded great, good job!

DDRKirbyISQ3 May 2019, 03:38

sweeeeeet

arcana3 May 2019, 03:38

Nice song. Great visuals. I could totally imagine you making a killing if you managed to fit this onto video synthesis hardware because the effect is really awesome. Would be great is there was a little more dynamics in the visuals based on the audio parameters.

atmospheriumauthor3 May 2019, 20:39

@fashionbatman - Thanks! They're one of my all time favorite bands, so I really appreciate the comparison.

SpiRiTs6 May 2019, 00:36

Great Job! The music and visuals were awesome :thumbsup:

jjjjason6 May 2019, 03:36

Yooooooo you composed the track behind this? It's sick!! Starts out really reminding me of a Massive Attack song (Angel's got a similar tonality) before busting out into that awesome doom metal banger. Very cool!

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