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So the first thing you might be wondering about is what happened to Soul Brother?\u00a0 Well there’s very good news on that front… I’ve signed the game to [Adult Swim] games, one of the premier Flash portals out there.\u00a0 It’s a massive deal for me, as I wasn’t even sure if I could make enough money to get by from it.\u00a0 As it happens, the deal has meant that I have a degree of financial freedom for the first time since joining the ‘AAA’ industry, and bodes really well for future indie work.<\/p>\n
I’ve put a lot more work into the game, more than I originally planned, but I want the game to be the best thing I’ve ever made.\u00a0 So although the game was 99% done in November, four months have passed and it’s slowly gained an extra sheen of polish which I think has really made the whole process worthwhile.<\/p>\n
I also put a lot more time into the soundtrack (and clearing some of the samples, which took frustratingly long – when you dig into house-megalabel Defected’s acapella records, it’s only to be expected I guess!)<\/p>\n
There are now six tracks in all, and I really put the same amount of work in that I would have for my drum’n’bass records that were released as things in their own right (normally I consciously spend less time on game music, reasoning that the production quality doesn’t need to be as high to pass.)<\/p>\n
Although [adult swim] own the IP to Soul Brother, I retain the rights to the music, which I’m planning on releasing as an OST later this year.\u00a0 That won’t be a simple port either, I’ll spend a few weeks polishing, extending and even adding to the tracks.\u00a0 I may even include a couple of bonus tunes, just ‘cos I love you all!<\/p>\n
TIGJam, Game 1: American Dream<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n While attending our local indie-con, TIGJam UK, a four day jamfest at Cambridge’s CB2 (100m from my house), I finally got to collaborate with two of my close friends who I’ve wanted to work with since getting into this indie thing.<\/p>\n These fine fellows are Terry Cavanagh<\/a> and Stephen ‘increpare<\/a>‘ Lavelle (and there was also some art contribution from the talented Tom Morgan-Jones<\/a> who I hadn’t met before, but had heard of.)<\/p>\n Terry had previously made a furnishing-simulator, which was going to be attached to an assasination simulator.\u00a0 When the theme ’80’s’ came up at the Jam, I wanted to do something to do with the stockmarket, thinking Wall Street \/ American Psycho, so I suggested this to Terry.\u00a0 Somehow we came upon trading 80’s film \/ music idols as commodities.<\/p>\n He got building a trading sim, I reworked the graphics, Stephen strung the whole thing together and wrote the wonderful music, Tom added cutscene art, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n The game was remarkably well received, getting covered on the likes of indiegames.com<\/a> and Rock Paper Shotgun<\/a> (one of my favourite blogs.)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indiegames.com\/blog\/images\/timw\/americdr2b.png\")
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