the lunar pack has just been released on steam. it includes lunnye devitsy which is all exploringy and atmospheric and wake which i did the soundtrack for in 2010… and i still consider it one of my best bits of work. get em both for dirt cheap.

in other news i have a live band gestating… should be gigging in a month or two unless something drastically bad happens.

a little late reporting on this super-cool-ism but i’ve been at a wedding OK?! (not mine obviously)

THIS IS HAPPENING my silly englishy english voice might well be spewing out of ‘your’ sony device’s speaker in the futury future.

this new release o’ mine (which includes the cat fight track) will be out very soon. i’ve been having massive audio problems which have been keeping me from finishing the last song on the ep but it all SEEMS to be working now. other thing to consider is i’m waiting on album art too which i’m trying to squeeze out of a very busy, stressed man with a cold.

it’s called Human Sense Common Problem and it’s tracklist goes thusly:

1 intro thing (silly noises and such)
2 your noodles ma’am (a subdued guitar wank)
3 TGFO (an actual song ish)
4 i fought a cat and the cat won (full version of the cat fight track)
5 ninja versus vampire (i’m ashamed of it but the guitar solo is fun)

oh for any wondering why i’ve been having problems: i upgraded to windows 7 the other day (after procrastinating and lollygagging OS-wise for ages) so you know.. teething problems and all that lark.

Ornsack’s cat fight is here and its got my music in it .. and perhaps a little something more too. TEE and/or bloody HEE

i’m not a very good band leader. i’m just not naturally that sort of a person. i dont like singing and i dont enjoy ordering my peers around. BUT I MUST. this is really an ability i need to work on. i’m so used to just playing on my own that now the full wall of sound provided by a full band at full volume seems overwhelming. i need to keep track of the noises i’m making to make sure they’re right. this is all stuff that one needs to get the hang of and i will. i just havent nailed it yet.

anyway in actual news i have an EP on the way (to bandcamp) very soon. just need to do the vocals for one track on there. its going to be pay-what-you-want with no minimum. 5 tracks, 2 actual decent ones. (plus secret bonus stuff)

oh and that song i did for a comedic youtube video, as far as i’m aware thats still on the way although already about a month overdue. still the person(s) responsible for that have done lots of brilliant stuff in the past so i dont doubt they’ll get it done one day. oh and the track for this video… yeah its on the EP too. because why not.

ayarrnd finally. i’ve been getting into this sort of thing lately. you may or may not spot the influences of those sorts of noises sneaking their way into more of my music in future. who knows!

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

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.

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

the aforementioned really big sky is out and you should all buy it.. i get a whole lovely  pittance for every copy sold.

Gerrit here!

and they brought a tidier mix with them!

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Cleaned it up nicely and added in a bass part compliments of my super brother and his bass skills. This is the version for Richard Herring’s Christ on a bike DVD extra. If/When i get my album done i’m sure it’ll be on that as well. along with improved versions of everything else here as well as extra goodies. but i digress ….. regularly.