Just popping by with a little news :) 2011 is going to be a busy time for me in terms of soundtracks. With the possibility of one game going commercial under a well known adventure studio it's going to be a challenging time for me in terms of producing something really acceptable by today's standards.
Three other games are also on my schedule for some music so I'm happy to be busy with those game related projects. I've finally started hitting the AGS code again with new enthusiasm and have a couple of short game projects in the works as we speak, one being a crap maze game called Mr. Maze and also a point & click adventure mini-crap-series :p Anyway the main point is my motivation is in a good place right now.
And because of that I've also been out filming more for the Ben Jordan sequel lately, with some epic new scenes shot in central Oxford. Well, by epic I mean epic in terms of what we can legally film on the cuff in a few hours ;)
I've also left Facebook for a while as a social science experiment. I'll be testing whether my spam email decreases, whether my knowledge of what all my friends are up to is really necessary for my already over-flowing brain, how easy it is to continue to communicate with good friends & associates without FB, whether my concentration improves or gets worse without it, etc. I can still be contacted easily over email and mobile/texts.
So it's a different, new but exciting time for me in the gaming world. Outside of that things are mellow and typical. I've pissed people off. Still, this year could have quite an impact on my future, providing I play my cards right. Thanks for taking a look :)
Peace!
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
foy-king amazing!
Fountain of Youth is on the front of PC Gamer, under a headline about Black Ops, under one about Kinect and ABOVE a headline about Bad Company 3. MENNTALL :)
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Just a little update
I just wanted to update you and let you know that Ben Jordan: Must Die (the Le Chateau Macabre sequel) is going very well and will (hopefully) be ready as an Xmas present for you.
I also wanted to officially say thank you Igor for your kind words on my thread about "losing a game" disappointment, it was very kind of you. I recently found that other projects I had been working on (for other people) had bit the dust over the summer, so it doesn't seem to be an unusual occurrence. Therefore it's sad that M$ and other OS companies don't consider the importance of keeping data when it comes to virus crashes and so forth, and that people are still unfortunately forced towards paying for crap to try and prevent it...about as well as the millennium bug.
That said the Primordia soundtrack is going well, and though the game may not be out til 2011, I believe it will be my pride of 2010 in terms of soundtrack composition.
Peace all
I also wanted to officially say thank you Igor for your kind words on my thread about "losing a game" disappointment, it was very kind of you. I recently found that other projects I had been working on (for other people) had bit the dust over the summer, so it doesn't seem to be an unusual occurrence. Therefore it's sad that M$ and other OS companies don't consider the importance of keeping data when it comes to virus crashes and so forth, and that people are still unfortunately forced towards paying for crap to try and prevent it...about as well as the millennium bug.
That said the Primordia soundtrack is going well, and though the game may not be out til 2011, I believe it will be my pride of 2010 in terms of soundtrack composition.
Peace all
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Today I aers talk about Ben Jordan 2
The movie sequel began production in August 2010 and since the shoot we did in Italy I've been editing the footage and last night watched it on a wide-screen telly - and it really is MOVIE this time :D With just 25 minutes more footage to film this will seriously be the most epic bigphat films film to date :) Watch this space.
Or the teaser! nyeehh!
Or the teaser! nyeehh!
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
What a loss
Hello folk. Sadly this blog I am not as chirpy or happy as my others because something drastic happened to my hard drive and re-installing Vista wiped it all. So in that process I lost all my game files for Lost in paradise and day by day I'm remembering more about what I had on that HD. A couple of days ago I realised it was also the drive I stored all my MIDI creations and films I've shot. I've never been one to back up because I've never known a re-install of Windows to erase an entire HD, so I have no idea why it happened now - it's not like I selected any options to format it.
This has left me depressed and unsure how to continue. Years of work is un-done. When I wake up I am still getting the buzz to work on my game - but it's gone - and it puts me down. The 60 minutes of music I wrote for it is gone and I'll never be able to rework it. This has left me in a very unsure position now as to my game making future.
I went to Mittens which was excellent fun and we worked on a new Ben Jordan movie which took my mind off these things, and don't get me wrong - I love it. But besides editing that, I'm almost afraid to use a PC now for fear it will just destroy my livelihood again.
People have been most kind and have sent me recovery programs that scan the HD, and as it happened a few days before Mittens I tried to recover what I could and got many of the games WMV animation files back. But after Mittens I ran another scan and nothing could be found on the HD. It seemed time alone erased the remainder of stuff, and that pisses me off, cos I could have rescued the soundtrack too.
So now I don't really know what to do. Do I restart the project, do I start a new one. Do I just pack game-making in for a while cos it's been nothing but fraught & un-successful for me since I began, (except for making music for people I suppose). I don't know. It's a major knock and I know others have suffered HD failure and lost their stuff and have been kind enough to give me advice and stuff...but I don't know. It's hard if not impossible to talk about this in the real world - normal people can understand losing their pictures and downloaded MP3's, but losing an entire legacy of your creations is something else, and hundreds of hours of rendering, composing, programming, editing....bleh.
We'll see what happens next, hopefully something good because 2010 has been an ultra shit year for me.
Peace
This has left me depressed and unsure how to continue. Years of work is un-done. When I wake up I am still getting the buzz to work on my game - but it's gone - and it puts me down. The 60 minutes of music I wrote for it is gone and I'll never be able to rework it. This has left me in a very unsure position now as to my game making future.
I went to Mittens which was excellent fun and we worked on a new Ben Jordan movie which took my mind off these things, and don't get me wrong - I love it. But besides editing that, I'm almost afraid to use a PC now for fear it will just destroy my livelihood again.
People have been most kind and have sent me recovery programs that scan the HD, and as it happened a few days before Mittens I tried to recover what I could and got many of the games WMV animation files back. But after Mittens I ran another scan and nothing could be found on the HD. It seemed time alone erased the remainder of stuff, and that pisses me off, cos I could have rescued the soundtrack too.
So now I don't really know what to do. Do I restart the project, do I start a new one. Do I just pack game-making in for a while cos it's been nothing but fraught & un-successful for me since I began, (except for making music for people I suppose). I don't know. It's a major knock and I know others have suffered HD failure and lost their stuff and have been kind enough to give me advice and stuff...but I don't know. It's hard if not impossible to talk about this in the real world - normal people can understand losing their pictures and downloaded MP3's, but losing an entire legacy of your creations is something else, and hundreds of hours of rendering, composing, programming, editing....bleh.
We'll see what happens next, hopefully something good because 2010 has been an ultra shit year for me.
Peace
Saturday, 3 July 2010
World Cap
Just days away from the final now and I have drunk so much Budweiser and eaten so many meals I am officially an alcoholic and fat english bastad right now. But all that ends soon.
I released a demo Indy and the Crystal Cursors cos I was feeling creative lately.
http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1321
And wrote a new AGS news:
http://www.screen7.co.uk/junc/ags_news_4.pdf
Take it easy :)
I released a demo Indy and the Crystal Cursors cos I was feeling creative lately.
http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=1321
And wrote a new AGS news:
http://www.screen7.co.uk/junc/ags_news_4.pdf
Take it easy :)
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Doing different stuff
I've had some luck lately which is much needed cos I've been feeling a bit gloomy about things. But I ended up winning a Budweiser promotion and get 5 bottles of Bud and a meal every day of the world cup - starting Friday...come on England!! I expect to be thoroughly pissed & have liver problems by July! I doubt I'll ever win FREE BEER again in my life --- but once is AMAZING enough :D
I now have a car (a lovely little Rover Metro) and went to Silbury Hill for the first time to see a crop circle for the first time also with my friend Joe. It was interesting to see how the corn is "bent" and somewhat fused at the nodes but not broken. Aliens? Who knows. Went to a local pub and had a chat with a fella that believes it's all people with boards. But his mate wasn't so sure...
Car means I can start filming again, but days after I got it and was going to get started on a new UFO Watch UK, my camcorder broke :( Looks like I'll have to buy another one off ebay if I'm to do that and BJ2...
In the gaming world I've mostly been concentrating on music and finished a soundtrack for Living Nightmare 2 which seems to have gone down pretty well! Also been working as ever on Lost In Paradise, the outro sequence is keeping me nicely frustrated! My facebook countdown app has a month more time alloted to get it finished. Whether my brain app will allow that is another matter!
Other than that not much else to report. Everyone's off to Download this weekend to metal it up, and I'm still struggling to get money together for Mittens Italia...but the World Cup is right on our doorstep now, so it's exciting times :D
Bye!
I now have a car (a lovely little Rover Metro) and went to Silbury Hill for the first time to see a crop circle for the first time also with my friend Joe. It was interesting to see how the corn is "bent" and somewhat fused at the nodes but not broken. Aliens? Who knows. Went to a local pub and had a chat with a fella that believes it's all people with boards. But his mate wasn't so sure...
Car means I can start filming again, but days after I got it and was going to get started on a new UFO Watch UK, my camcorder broke :( Looks like I'll have to buy another one off ebay if I'm to do that and BJ2...
In the gaming world I've mostly been concentrating on music and finished a soundtrack for Living Nightmare 2 which seems to have gone down pretty well! Also been working as ever on Lost In Paradise, the outro sequence is keeping me nicely frustrated! My facebook countdown app has a month more time alloted to get it finished. Whether my brain app will allow that is another matter!
Other than that not much else to report. Everyone's off to Download this weekend to metal it up, and I'm still struggling to get money together for Mittens Italia...but the World Cup is right on our doorstep now, so it's exciting times :D
Bye!
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