Archive for July, 2011
Off on holiday today, but I’ll leave you with a screenshot showing the new lighting system (notice the grading across the screen), the redrawn art (I’ve done a second detail pass on all the art) and the new area (in fact the first area I began two years ago.) Also you can see the item combination system here. I wonder what irradiated orange + squid stick tastes like?
It’s going well!
I was asked over on www.superfriendshipclub.org to point out some links to some of my older music as Sonic. I was and still am a producer and DJ, mainly making drum’n’bass. So rather than clog up that forum, here’s those links conveniently laid out for your pleasure!
Sonic & Silver, AKA the Accidental Heroes c.2001
So I took half an hour to pick out some random selections. Not the best tunes necessarily, just ones that popped into my head while trawling youtube. I dunno how good the recordings are on some of these as I haven’t checked them all. What I did hear gave me a massive nostalgia rush though though!
I lost my HD with all music pre-around 2004, so don’t have many of these tunes handy, except possibly on old DAT tapes, or the vinyls themselves, where I was sent copies – and not all record labels even get round to this! 🙂
Anyway, here they are, they spread from ’99 to ’11, on a bunch of labels and with different people. All but a couple were produced in my studio though…
My Label
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Sonic & Silver – Space Cadet (Space Recordings)
Sonic – The Big Blue (Space Recordings)
Sonic – 4 Manchester (Space Recordings) (Space Recordings)
Sonic – Sunday Morning (Space Recordings)
Sonic – Feel The Vibe (Space Recordings)
Sonic – What U Do 2 Me (Space Recordings)
Sonic – Love Came In (Space Recordings)
Sonic – Galaxyflip (Space Recordings)
Sonic – Futureworld (Space Recordings)
Other labels / collaborations
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Sonic – Piano Anthem (Hospital Records)
Sonic – All I Wanna Do (Hospital Records)
Sonic & Silver – On The Anson (Metalheadz Records)
Sonic & Silver – Under The Sun (Soul:R Records)
Sonic & Silver – Rocket Launcher (Virus Records
Sonic – Funckstation (Virus Records)
Bad Company – Rush Hour (Sonic & Silver RMX)
Sonic – Even When It Rains [Super Disco Mix] (Infrared Records)
The Accidental Heroes – Precinct 13 (Infrared Records)
The Accidental Heroes – Hydrophonics (Infrared Records)
Matrix & Sonic – Flashlight (Metro Records)
Sonic & Silver – Rise Up (Reinforced Records)
Sonic & Silver – Cool Intentions (Reinforced Records)
Sonic & J Majik – New Generation (Infrared Records) – (uncredited here!)
Sonic – Bounty Hunter (Bingo Records)
Sonic – Dreamscape (Bingo Records)
Earlier Stuff
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The Accidental Heroes – YOUWITHMENOW (Freeform Records, my first release in ’99)
Sonic – Light Cycles (Formation Records)
MC/R Movement – Make It Bounce (Freeform Records)
Sonic – Searchlights (Formation Records)
The Accidental Heroes – Timecheck (Formation Records)
A couple of playlists I found that people put together…
First of all I’d just like to finally give Brian Keong, the Rainbow Star Challenge winner, his prize. Nearly half a million players have entered Soularis now, and it makes me so happy. I’m planning to do a bit more of a post-mortem of the game at some point, and I’d also like to share some more press and interview links about it, as it seems to have had a good buzz.
Anyway, he requested a bird character, and here he is, in-game:
Brian, I almost broke the game doing this, so I hope you like him!
Lone Survivor Update
I managed to get a solid build of Lone Survivor into Indiecade this year, one of the main indie game competitions along with IGF. I worked incredibly hard on it for the two months leading up to the deadline, almost going as insane as the protagonist. It probably helped the atmosphere in some ways!
Here’s a little teaser trailer I made (it shows almost nothing of the actual gameplay, that will follow in the real trailer, which should be much better than this one!):
The music is by myself and Silver (Sonic & Silver), the VIP mix of Rocket Launcher on Virus Records. It’s not used in-game, for those that hate it (it’s a polarising one.) There’s already 22 original tracks in Lone Survivor, and it’s going to give me a lot of pleasure to finally share them with you guys.
Since submitting to Indiecade I had a little time off playing Yakuza and so on, but I’ve now started back on full-time work on it. It’s getting quicker to make as what I want to do with it is getting clearer in my head.
I’ll leave you with a new screenshot, from the dusty cellar, of the new mirror savegame system:
