New Music for Medientage München
Today is the last day of Medientage München 2010, the big media congress in Munich, Germany. We were asked to provide music for a new intro video to add to the old one as an alternative.
As the event has reached its 24th year, the original music jingle is not becoming younger, either. It was composed by legendary Klaus Doldinger (Tatort, Das Boot, Neverending Story), so it was a big honor for me to provide the new music! Add to that the size of the event (with the heads of all national TV Channels and newspapers and 8 ministers present)…
Will post the new video soon, will have to wait for permission. 🙂
[EDIT] We have now uploaded the video.
Gamestar review likes our music
“The exceedingly well fitting soundtrack with its soulful and fantastic themes plays a big part in creating this atmosphere…”
…says the review of A New Beginning in this month’s Gamestar, the most important German magazines for games in my opinion. They gave the game an awesome 84%, and an award for Special Atmosphere.
Gamestar is one of the few magazines that evaluates and lists the audio part of the rating separately. For the sound they awarded 9 of 10 points, listing “very atmospheric music” as a plus, and no complains about music or sound (which we delivered). 9 of 10 was the highest sound rating they gave this issue.
We were interviewed by DarkFrequenzy at Gamescom
The Knights of Soundtrack, Dominik and me, were interviewed by LiveWire at the Gamescom , the technology and game program of Dark Frequenzy. It’s audio and it’s in German. Here you can listen to it:
Link: http://www.darkfrequenzy.com/podcast/DFaPodcast-LiveWire-GamesCom2010-KnightsOfSoundtrack.mp3
We are working on Dungeons (Realmforge/ Kalypso)
We are happy to announce that we are working on Dungeons, developed by Realmforge (Ceville…) and published by Kalypso (Patrizier IV…).
The game is a fantasy strategy game which pleasantly reminds me of Dungeon Keeper. It’s evil, fantasy, loud, and dark – and so are we! Check out this trailer for which we provided all audio except the Kalypso logo: music, sfx and voices. I had the honor to voice all characters myself 🙂
– Daniel
Daniel interviewed by Wheel Of Games
I was interviewed by Wheel of Games about my Sound Designer and Game Composer Job:
English: http://bit.ly/ckiGSs
German: http://bit.ly/dnoUmX
We have worked on 50 games
Hey there, the number of games we provided audio for just reached 50.
Here is #50: The Undergrounder, by LowPoly Studios UK:
We provide Music & SFX for ASYLUM!
We have the trailer on our start page for a while – as it has recently been announced, Scratches mastermind Agustín Cordes and his new company Senscape are working on ASYLUM, a first person horror adventure. And we provide Music and SFX (plus voices in the trailer) for it. I can tell you that much: the story is awesome, it’s not “popcorn horror”, it will be deep and weird and a massive experience. Agustín is a true horror expert and a genius, and I am happy to be on board. 🙂
Trailer: www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-trailer-asylum/701685
Game Site: FaceTheHorror.com
Toyborgs developer get LARA Startup Award
Addmore Games, developers of Toyborgs (with our music & sfx), received the LARA startup award at the prestigious award ceremonies on June 30th. The award came with 5000€ for our beloved clients. I got VIP tickets, too, normal price 350€! And here I am in a spontaneous interview (yes, we were caught by surprise and not too sober, either):
And a pic:
Addmore Games with Daniel Pharos on the left
Night of Joeanne wins Living Games Newcomer Award
Night of Joeanne (music / sfx by the Knights of Soundtrack) wins the audience award of the Living Games Festival. Therefore, the game is automatically nominated for the German Developer Awards (Deutscher Entwicklerpreis).
Living Games Festival video features our music
The video report from the Living Games Festival by Wheel Of Games features our music:
“This One’s Gonna Hurt” as was used in the games Hard 2 Morrow (Xbox Indie) and Starcraft: The Outworld Saga (Mod).
http://journal.wheel-of-games.com/2010/06/living-games-festival-tag-1-video/
Night of Joeanne featured on MTV Game One
Night of Joeanne, for which we supply music & sfx, was featured on Germany’s most important video games TV program “MTV Game One” yesterday. You can watch it here: Night http://www.gameone.de/tv/134 (from about 7:40)
Game Audio Lecture at Uppsala University, Sweden on June 29th
I was invited to hold a lecture about game music and sound effects at the Uppsala University in Sweden. I will be there on June 29th. It is an honour and I am very much looking forward to meeting Sweden’s game design hopefuls. – Daniel
Night of Joeanne won “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” Award
Night of Joeanne, for which we provide music and sound effects, has won the “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” (i.e. German Video Game Award) for best student game. The award comes with 35’000 Euro. We are happy for the team. The money will be used to finish the prototype, which will evolve into a commercial game afterwards.
Daniel to voice Lead Role in Warhammer 40K Animated Movie
I was asked to lend my voice to the main character of the CGI film “The Lord Inquisitor” (working title). The project is quite ambitious, and knowing the previous work of director and lead artist Erasmus Brosdau (see artwork below), it will probably look quite awesome when it’s done in about 2 years. The animated short movie, which is set in the Warhammer 40k universe and will last about 15 minutes, will be shown at film festivals.
New Songs uploaded
We recently added a song each from the games “Gravito”, “Fluch und Siegel”, “Ava’e Off Course” and “Night of Joeanne”. Enjoy 🙂
Alpha for Bombwar has started
We provided two loops for the Swedish indie browser game Bombwar which has just launched its alpha.
Night of Joanne nominated for “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” Award
Night of Joeanne, for which we provide music and sound effects, is nominated for the “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” award, category “Best Student Concept”. “Deutscher Computerspielpreis” is initiated by the German government. The winners will be anounced on April 29th in Berlin and will receive a total of 500.000 Euro.
Completed project: Syno (Ipad)
We finished music and sound effects for Syno, a colour-based game for Ipad, Iphone or Ipod Touch.
Completed Projects: Crysis Hellfire Trailer, Massive Threat
We have recently finished the trailer for Crysis Hellfire, and sound effects for Massive Threat (Games Academy). Plus 2 milestone deliveries and 1 not yet announced project.
Daniel becomes lecturer for Media Composition (FH) at the School of Entertainment & Technology
Daniel will be one of the lecturers for the new course Media Composition (FH) at the School of Entertainment & Technology, university of applied sciences certificate (FH). Courses last 1 year, are partially online plus at selected locations in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
More information can be found here (in German):
http://www.set-school.com/index.php/Komponist-Musik-und-Medien-FH
Out now: Hard 2 Morrow (Xbox Indie)
Hard 2 Morrow is a post-apocalyptic two player action pong. It features our industrial metal soundtrack and sound effects. Please have a look, download the demo and give a nice rating if you like here:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025855042e
The trailer is here (also with our music):
Completed projects: Sui & Cide, Ava’E Off Course
We delivered sound effects for the platformer Sui & Cide – a sort of Emocore Lemmings – and music & sound effects for Ava’E Off Course, a rejuvenation of the classic Space Invader genre.
Out now: Toyborgs (Xbox) and Handball Simulator 2010 European Tournament (PC)
We are happy to announce 2 games which came out yesterday and today:
Toyborgs is a multiplayer 2D Robot Party Fun Shooter for Xbox Live Indie Games, availabe for 240 points here: http://3.ly/Toyborgs It contains a heavy metal score and SFX by the Knights of Soundtrack.
Handball Simulator 2010 European Tournament is the world’s first handball action simulator, published by Astragon, containing sound effects by us.
Completed Projects: StarCraft-The Outworld-Saga, Hard 2 Morrow, Bombwar, Harvest Mania
We used the calm days around Xmas to finish the audio for a few smaller game projects:
StarCraft-The Outworld-Saga
Hard 2 Morrow (Xbox Version)
Bombwar
Harvest Mania
Now we will concentrate on the remaining projects and of course good ol’ A New Beginning, which had a friendly preview in the latest Gamestar magazine.
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