| Tobe & Friends Hookshot Escape soundtrack releasedComposer and sound designer Luke Thomas has released the six-track soundtrack (including one unused track) to Tobe & Friends Hookshot Escape through Bandcamp. The album featuring music from the iOS game by Secret Base, a spiritual successor to Tobe’s Vertical Adventure for PC, and can be downloaded in your file format of choice for "name your price." Cover art is by Ray Teo. |
| echochrome's Noisycroak studio forms Tekaru bandTokyo game sound studio Noisycroak has formed a new live band called Tekaru. Members include echochrome composer Hideki Sakamoto on organ, Hiroyoshi Kato on synthesizer, Keisuke Itou on bass, Yasushi Asada on guitar, and Yasuhiro Kawagoe on drums. Their debut album "Tekaru Technical" will include live renditions of music from echochrome, Patchwork Heroes and No Heroes Allowed. |
| Nubuwo Debut Bundle funded through KickstarterOur one-week game audio promotion was fully funded, raising $16,000 in pledges through Kickstarter. Over 730 backers participated in the project and will be receiving download codes for the game-inspired music bundle. This coming week will mark the official launch of Nubuwo's regular reporting at GDC 2012. |
| virt joins FX4 pre-listening partyNoise Channel is hosting a listening party for virt's FX4 album, due out this evening. Tune in at 10pm Eastern to hear the entire album, following a discussion between TrueStar and the Retro City Rampage co-composer on the subject of FX4 and the previous FX albums. After the listening party, the album will be formally released. |
| Q&A: Kumi Tanioka's independent visionLate last year, on 11/11/11, Kumi Tanioka performed on stage at the Vana♪Con orchestral concert, featuring her compositions from Final Fantasy XI. Having gone freelance, Tanioka has founded her own company, named Riquisimo, and scored three independently developed interactive storybooks: Snow White, The Ugly Duckling and Hansel and Gretel. Containing multiple translations of all text and narration, the iOS applications represent a cutting edge language tool for the young. |
| Q&A: Jessica Curry's Dear Esther soundtrackA running theme of composer Jessica Curry's visual media projects is the experience of a hidden story being uncovered. IndieGames.com caught up with the composer to hear about her background in literature and music composition, both of which have added nuance and intention to the design of Dear Esther. |
| IGF video with Danny B. and Mattias Häggström GerdtIn a video interview filmed filmed during the 2011 IGF, two finalists in the excellence in audio category relate their experiences attending the Game Developers Conference. Danny Baranowsky was nominated for his music score for Super Meat Boy. Mattias Häggström Gerdt was selected as an IGF Awards finalist for the music of Cobalt. |
| Persona 2 Eternal Punishment headed to PlayStation PortableFollowing the remake of Persona 2 Innocent Sin, the concluding chapter of the Atlus role-playing game will be making its way to PlayStation Portable. Animation studio Madhouse will be creating a new intro for the game, and director Shoji Meguro will arrange all music tracks. Both original and arrange tracks will be playable in-game when the title goes on sale May 17 in Japan. |
| Sound Q&A: Thatgamecompany's JourneyIndieGames.com catches up with composer Austin Wintory and sound designer Steve Johnson. Their online multiplayer title Journey has been in development at Thatgamecompany since 2009, and is due out the week of March 13 on the PlayStation 3. The sound team discusses the role of audio in storytelling on a game without dialog, along with the thematic role of sand and cello recordings. |
| Antichamber teaser trailerAlexander Bruce has released a teaser trailer for Antichamber, which is up for a 2012 Independent Games Festival award in the category of technical excellence. Music for the mind-bending first-person puzzle game is by Siddhartha Barnhoorn, with sound design by Robin Arnott. The developers are shooting for a mid-year release on Steam. |
| Siddhartha Barnhoorn Q&A: Antichamber SuiteIndieGames.com catches up with the composer of Antichamber, which is up for a 2012 Independent Games Festival Award in the category of technical excellence. Siddhartha Barnhoorn discusses the process behind composing for the atmospheric score and finding the right sound for the mind-bending puzzler. |
| Video: Nobuo Uematsu on indie developmentIn this video interview, Final Fantasy series composer Nobuo Uematsu discusses the advantages of founding his own independent sound studio Dog Ear Records. "Financially, we haven't had a big hit yet, or completely surpassed our monetary needs" he says of his studio. "On the other hand it's a very positive work environment." |
| PixelJunk 4am Party planned for March 6 at GDCA public demonstration of Q-Games' PixelJunk 4AM is planned for March 6 at 6:00 pm, during the Game Developers Conference Kickoff Party. The meetup will take place at SUPER7 in San Francisco, located at 1427 Haight Street. The PlayStation 3 exclusive for use with PlayStation Move features art and music designed by PixelJunk Eden composer Baiyon, who will be on hand at the event. |
| Hideki Sakamoto scores Time TravelersHideki Sakamoto of the Tokyo-based game sound studio Noisycroak is writing original music for Level-5's Time Travelers for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita. The composer and scenario writer Jiro Ishii previously collaborated on 428: In a Blockaded Shibuya, developed by Chunsoft. |
| Test drive the new Nobuooo on Nubuwo.comThe new Nobuooo is now online at Nubuwo.com. The site supports account crreation through Facebook Connect, submission of news posts and comments, as well as voting up posts. Over eighty pages of 15-item news posts have been reformatted from Nubuooo, now with thumbnails, categories, hypertext, iFrame embedding of video and tags. To support this initiative, back our one-week Kickstarter going on now. |
| IndieGames Podcast #24: The Sidescrolling of IsaacIndieGames Podcast #24 hears from four participants of the Nubuwo Debut Bundle: Danny Baranowsky of The Binding of Isaac and "The Wrath of the Lamb" expansion, chip musician Sabrepulse (Ash Charles) of Bit Pilot for iOS, Dom Beken of High Frequency Bandwidth and PixelJunk Shooter 1 & 2, along with Tomas Dvorak (Floex) of Samorost 2 and Machinarium. |
| Nobuooo launches Japanese language news siteNobuooo has created the templates for Japanese language news website on ja.nubuwo.com. The new domain's implemented features include account creation through Facebook Connect, item submission, comment posting and voting up posts, as well as the potential to translate content between languages. To support this multiple language initiative, back our one-week Kickstarter project. |
| Nobuooo launches one-week game audio KickstarterNobuooo has launched a one-week Kickstarter together with twelve game-inspired musicians. Proceeds will benefit the artists and allow for founding a new Japanese and English-language web domain on nubuwo.com / ja.nubuwo.com. Music from the bundle is available to stream in full on nubuwo.bandcamp.com, including tracks from unreleased games The Binding of Isaac: The Wrath of the Lamb and Clairvoyance (by the makers of Kometen). |
| Danny Baranowsky scores The Hunger Games: Girl on FireGame composer Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac) is writing original music for The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire, which is being designed by Adam Saltsman of Canabalt and Gravity Hook HD. The iPhone and iPad title, developed in coordination with Lionsgate, takes as its source the upcoming film, based on the young adult novel written by Suzanne Collins. |
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