MrPineapple band

see title.

i dont feel the slightest bit festive but thats no reason not to say merry christmas to the internet now is it.

couple of little things on the way, one is music for someone’s super cool video which should be released very soon and the other is another EP because i feel the need for such things to happen. 2012 should hold plenty for me… the live band and at least 1 more album. keep an eye out and stuff.

I haven’t posted here in a little while because not a great deal of stuff has happened. However a eurogamer expo happened and we (that is bossbaddie) were there. here’s a couple of interviews. one of which features me buzzing like a maniac on free energy drinks. (10 points to the first person to guess which one)

we’re at 5:19

we’re at 3:06

Jadies and lentilmen  here’s my album. The one i’ve been working on since april 2010, yes! free to stream, pay-what-you-want to download. you can’t say fairer than that.

no not the musical score the score i just got in the game! likely the biggest score in this game ever in the universe ever. how did i manage? i honestly have no idea, sorry!

I expect i have an advantage over lots of other players what with having beta tested this game since fairly early days but my average score (curtsey of the death screen) is/was 265,625. so how on earth did i get 4 million?

ignore the average starbits stat that's left over from a bug we had in beta.

Well sometimes you just have that dream round, where regardless of what game you’re playing or why, everything goes your way. your charmed existence arrogantly blasting through the game’s universe. apparently this was one of those times. another helpful aspect to the situation seems to be that my dad was there for the first half talking to me about something totally unrelated, the fact that i didn’t really care what he was saying apparently allowed me to achieve that exact level of distraction, enough to not react unfavorably to anything ingame but not enough to let me lose focus.

All of this leads me to gain a new appreciation for James’ difficulty scaling code.. having seen it taken to extremes now. by the end of this session my lasers were almost totally ineffective against all but the most basic of enemies, so i had to get creative, hiding in meteors here, using my tiny orbital shield to bonk the baddies on the head there, spin attack when cornered.

One of the new enemies added in this latest version (build 230) is a spinning thing that creates a shield of fire which will engulf the whole screen, killing you if you don’t shoot it down to size. all fine, rather annoying and potentially deadly but shooting these buggers gives you plenty of points. also big score earners it would seem.

I also got lucky with the boss order here as well, the beauty of random generation is sometimes it’ll randomly be really good to you. it gave me almost entirely the boss i find easiest to defeat quickly again and again! meaning i could replenish my shields with relative ease.

Basically i’m not sure why i wrote this bloggyblog apart from to say this game is indeed good even if i was a little involved in making it.

Oh and by the way, the song i was listening to at the time was Frogs got Crabs! That’s track 7 on the OST for those who want to put it on now.

it’s called that even though it’s not actually fresh any more. still if i don’t put this out now then when will i get a chance to? well later sure but … you shurrup sir.

The Fruits of my old youtube account lie within. Includes the more popular mashup songs and a few bits and bobs that never made it to the public at all. All topped off with an ammusing photoshop job by James with rubbish titling added by yours truly  at 5am! Don’t worry though dear reader, a proper album is imminent!

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said youtube channel can be located here.

it’s been updated with 2 new tracks, the cascades and narration part 6 (featuring some outtakes).

If you already have the OST but don’t want to have to download it all again i knocked up a little update zip for you with just the 2 new tracks: GO HERE FOR THAT.

Alternatively the whole thing is HERE.

blergh, in my haste to get it out i failed to spot a typo and the fact that according to the mp3 tags there’s two track 13s and no 14! so that’s all fixed now, i’ll be replacing the zip soon along with 2 more tracks (the cascades and the latest narration track with outtakes). Also itunes doesn’t associate the album cover picture with the songs which is mildly annoying.

RBSOST1.1 is on it’s way in the very soonage.

yeah i’ll continue to update it if i find myself doing any more narration parts, just to keep it definitive and complete.

no really, it’s 54 minutes long! thats not too shabby for a free downloadable mp3 soundtrack that.

Yes so in plain english for those who like that sort of thing (search engines mainly) I have finished compiling and mastering the Really Big Sky official soundtrack and here it is.

With wondrous noises from myself, Mike Smith, James Whitehead and Tom Engels. It also has all the unlockable ingame jukebox songs as well as all the narration parts.

For anyone who’s still a silly billy and does’nt know about this game GO HERE AND LOOK AND HAVE FUN!

Also expect another little release from me soon. Then hopefully the album after that.

i must be trendy now surely i made a chiptune thing … also it’s for some game free update or something.