Nominated for the German Developer Award for “Best Sound”
Tomorrow is the annual award ceremony of the German Developer Award (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis), and this year a game we helped with is nominated again for its audio: Crookz (Skilltree/Kalypso) is nominated for “Best Sound”. I provided sound design and on-site audio integration for this game.
Best of luck to the other nominated games, too, especially of course those we also worked on: Dungeons 2 (Realmforge/Kalypso), Forge of Empires Mobile & Elvenar. 🙂
We will be there to meet new and old friends, if you happen to see me, say hello! 🙂
Dungeons 2 – A Game of Winter & A Clash of Pumpkins
We were allowed to revisit the world of Dungeons 2 to work on DLC and a big addon. “A Game of Winter” is pretty massive, containing our sfx & additional music this time, too. Check it out @ Steam, everything “Dungeons” is reduced right now due to Halloween sale. Talking of which, there is also some free Halloween DLC:
“Jerry McPartlin – Rebel With A Cause” has been released
Jerry is out! I have followed the course of this game for quite some time now, in different ways. I helped pitch an early version @ Gamescom, provided music for the announcement trailer, and worked on an earlier version of the story. Sound design, proofreading (by fellow Knight Heike) – you name it! 😉
Anyway, it’s a a rock ‘n roll adventure set in the 50ies, humorous but with a mysterious undercurrant – check it out on Steam or Amazon!
“Coast Guard” has been released
Coast Guard (Reality Twist/Astragon ) is now out! It might look like “just a simulator”, but I think Reality Twist are really fighting here to open up the genre with a cool exciting story and adventure elements. It’s also very topical: It’s a game about refugees, and in another great move, 1 EUR per game sold goes to charity (Gaming Aid e.v.) towards helping refugees.
Ah yeah, Simon helmed the voice recordings and production, I helped a bit with post-production.
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/361200/?l=german
Amazon: www.amazon.de/Rondomedia-Coast-Guard/dp/B00Y2933P4
– Daniel
“Crooks – The Big Heist” is out now!
“Crookz – The Big Heist” (Skilltree/Kalypso) is out now, featuring my sound design and audio integration.
As I said, I think it turned out quite good, nice stylish and bold game. I had a great time, working closely with the team in Berlin. Therefore, it makes me happy to see that it currently sits at a Metacritic score of 76.
Check it out, as I said earlier, there is also a demo!
Thanks Skilltree & Kalypso for having me 🙂
Crookz – The Big Heist: Demo on Steam!
This very stylish 70ies-style heist/stealth game is available soon, but you can check out the demo right now on Steam!
I worked on Sound Design and On-Site Audio Integration on this title, and I am very happy with the results. The game is fresh, interesting, highly detailed – a title to stand behind. Thanks to Skilltree & Kalypso for the great cooperation. Check it out!
Dungeons 2 (Realmforge/Kalypso) is released!
Happy to announce that Dungeons 2 (Realmforge/Kalypso) is now released!
Over 9 months, I spent some great time working on the sounds, monster voices and audio implementation using Unity 5, working partially on-site together with my mates at Realmforge! There are some cool reviews coming in, including Gameswelt.de (9/10), who also handed out a sound award!
Elvenar!
Now you can check out Elvenar, a new game by InnoGames in which you can choose to play humans or elves!
Given my love for fantasy, I had a lot of fun with the music and sounds. ESPECIALLY because my friend Kai Rosenkranz ❤ and I composed the theme for the Elves together 😀
Mystic Worlds of Thomas Thiemeyer
Mystic Worlds of Thomas Thiemeyer (Chromatrix) is a puzzle app around the artwork of Mr. Thiemeyer, with my music and sounds! The puzzle aspect has some nice different gameplay ideas which I quite liked. It’s free, check it out on iOS or Android !
Mystery of Neuschwanstein is out!
The mysterious and atmospheric Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure “Mystery of Neuschwanstein” (Chimera/astragon) is now available on Steam (PC/MAC) and iOS. Due to the cool mood, I had a blast with the sound design. Check it out 🙂
Bye 2014, Welcome 2015
Goodbye 2014, and a successful 2015 to all of you.
2014 was an interesting one, a bit silent from my side, but I will change that (one of my new year resolutions).
Our focus was on big projects, e.g. 3 excellent ones from Innogames: Tribal Wars 2, Rising Generals and Elvenar.
And on leveling my skills! After the very deep dive into audio integration for “DARK” with FMOD and the vision engine, I started working on Realmforge’s next title “Dungeons 2” with different middleware (more soon). Next big audio integration job is starting right now. I like to work close to developers and on-site, so this seems to become a new speciality for me 😀
Plus: Writing! My early childhood dream job seems to get more real: I have successfully submitted a game design document to an indie company in 2014! And I have 2 paid writing jobs right now, for 2 adventures. It’s not an easy field to tackle, but very rewarding.
Translation-wise, Heike and I worked a lot on League of Legends in 2014 (for Lingoona).
Finally: My band WORSHIP had some highlights, too, touring Japan in February 2014 and Europe in May, and playing the massive Brutal Assault Open Air Festival.
I am really curious about what will happen in 2015! Maybe we will work together this year?
What are your plans? Let me know!
– Daniel
Good luck at the German Developer Awards today!
… especially to the nominated games we had the honour to help with:
Best Simulation: Die Seenotretter (Reality Twist GmbH)
Best Youth Game: Blackguards (Daedalic Entertainment GmbH)
Best Browser Game: Tribal Wars 2 (InnoGames GmbH)
Best Game Design: Blackguards (Daedalic Entertainment GmbH)
Best Strategy: Blackguards (Daedalic Entertainment GmbH)
Good luck! I can’t make it today to the award ceremony, next time!
Goldrush! is out for PC
Sunlight Games carefully reimagined the classic point ‘n click game Goldrush! Next to modern mouse control, graphics and voices, it also contains the classic parser version. Sunlight Games put a lot of passion and effort into this very atmospheric, historic adventure about the 19th century US goldrush, so why don’t you check it out?
(btw, we helped with proofreading and voice recordings)
Elder Scrolls Online is out!
April has seen the release of the Elder Scrolls Online. We have been working on the German translations for almost 2 years now (as part of the great translation team at Lingoona), and it is finally out. Check out this fantastic blockbuster that combines MMO elements with classic Elder Scrolls feel…
Best Presentation 2013 for Memoria
Adventuretreff , top German site for adventure games, gave an editor’s choice award for Best Presentation 2013 to Daedalic’s game Memoria (feat. our music and sound effects), (translated) quote: “We think: Concerning graphics, sound and production, The Dark Eye: Memoria has convinced us the most last year. Beautifully drawn backgrounds, manifold animations, excellent music and voice actors make us virtually breathe the Dark Eye atmosphere.”
Thanks Adventuretreff, and congrats again to Daedalic for a job well done!
Blackguards is out now (PC/Mac)!
Blackguards (Daedalic / Eurovideo) is out now! Daedalic’s venture into the realm of round-based RPG strategy is available for PC and Mac, on Steam (10% off till tomorrow!) or in stores. Deluxe and collector’s editions contain a selection of our soundtrack, too. We are glad & proud to have worked on music and sound design, or how Gamestar Magazine would put it, “good weapon sound effects” and “atmospheric soundtrack.”
Check out the game, the entire first chapter is available as free demo.
Early Access to Blackguards on Steam
To repeat the quote on Steam:
“Blackguards is now available on Early Access. The team is incredibly proud, since now we can present the fruit of two and a half years of intensive hard work. We’ve created a game we really like ourselves and want to play: a turn-based strategy game with many RPG elements and an intense, gritty story.”
One of our biggest projects so far, developed by Daedalic with our music and sounds, check it out!!
MobileWebAward for Rally the World
Rally the World. The Game (by Aperto/Brightside Games) has won the Mobile Webaward 2013 for Best Game Site Mobile Application (w/ our sounds and voices). Congratulations!!
Laser Match out for mobile devices
Hey there,
Laser Match has hit the app store and Google play store. This indie mobile game by Klaus Ullrich features our music & sounds while combining elements of match 3 games with tetris and LASERS in a scifi arcade setting. With puzzle and action modes. Check it out and support indie development!
11 nominations for games we helped with
German Developer Awards (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis) ceremonies are coming up, and nominations have been announced:
11 nominations for 5 games we helped with! Coolness ladies and gentlemen, well done!
The games are:
Memoria, Sidekick Cycle, Smash ‘n Bash, Rally the World. The Game and Word Wonders!
Best of luck to them, and to our other friends in the industry as well! Last awards, all our nominations got an award, maybe we can make that happen again 😉 CU there…
Cheers, Daniel
Happy Hills 2: Bombs Away! is out for iOS devices
Finally out! Happy Hills 2: Bombs Away! (Chimera Entertainment/dreamfab/Thumbstar Games), sequel to the very entertaining physics action puzzler Happy Hills, has hit the iOS app store. With new music, sounds and voices by the Knights of Soundtrack, featuring my friend Marco Rosenberg as the revamped hills.
I really like those games, not only from our audio angle (Happy Hills 1 for example is a project whose audio package I am still very.. ehm… happy with, one of my favourite achievements), but I also like this mix of action puzzling (things explode and are flying everywhere, you sometimes need to be quick) and the clever physics part (working with freezing, melting, friction, chain reactions in the right order to solve a level). It deserves to be a huge hit. 🙂
Try it out, 160 levels are waiting for you. 🙂
– Daniel
We are working on The Elder Scrolls Online!
Finally we can announce that we have been working on The Elder Scrolls Online for over a year! Heike and Daniel are part of Lingoona‘s German translation team. I don’t have to tell you how happy we are to be part of this wonderful, huge game and this stellar team!
If you didn’t know that we offer translations at all, you can check out our page about translations.
Blackguards Closed Beta Launched
Blackguards is a totally new line of advance from our friends at Daedalic, a massive RPG set in the Dark Eye universe, with a huge and complex soundtrack by your very own Knights of Soundtrack!
Yesterday, the Closed Beta started! Check out these screenshots, or the official website.
Released: Memoria (PC/Mac)
Memoria (Daedalic/Deep Silver) is now available for PC and Mac!
Memoria is the sequel to the Dark Eye point-and-click adventure Chains of Satinav. As mentioned earlier, we had the honour to ride again with our friends from Hamburg (for the sixth time! ❤ ), and provided music and sound effects for this critically acclaimed title with ratings like 10/10, 94%, 90%, 90% plus some friendly words about the soundtrack on top:
“1st class soundtrack… outstanding soundtrack… good sound effects”Gamestar “A soundtrack to fall in love with … wonderful fantasy tracks accompany the game atmospherically from the first minute to the last.”
Gameswelt
“the music score is absolutely fantastic, from the soft-playing harp melodies in the menu screen to the gripping orchestrations during the final chapters. They’re so good, in fact, that you’ll wish the game included unlockable music tracks in the Bonus menu. The ambient sounds of your surroundings are equally pleasing, and whether the locations are teaming with life or buried beneath the surface of the land, you’ll never doubt your ears. […] beautiful array of ambient sound effects and mesmerizing orchestrations.”
Cheat Code Central
Here is the trailer again:
And some screenshots:
Knights Of Soundtrack 