Demolition Dash now available @ App Store
Just one day later, another game we are involved with has hit the App Store. Demolition Dash by Chimera & Dreamfab. It’s a sidescrolling, all destroying beauty with a lot of very diverse music by us. Notice the show theme styled music turn into 8 very different versions as you travel all over the world, Paris, London, Moscow, San Francisco, New York, Rio, Tokyo and Sidney. This game holds no less than 10 different musical styles! And all live instruments I can play, and we did all the voices too, so I am very proud of what we pulled off here. Please check it out, and support the fresh talented guys involved:
Iphone Version 0.79€ / $0.99
Ipad Version 1.59€ / $1.99
Trailer (note: our sound starts after 12 sec)
A Knights Dawn now available @ App Store
A Knights Dawn, a fantasy Tower Defense game for Iphone and Ipad developed by our friends at VisionaryX, is now available on the App Store. It contains a range of fantasy songs, sounds and even some voice acting by your Knights of Soundtrack. It currently costs 0.79€ or $0.99.
Here is a trailer for the game:
Interview about Jerry McPartlin
Here I was caught at the Quo Vades conference talking about the game Jerry McPartlin with which we are involved, together with team lead Marco Dyziek (pictured). We were interviewed by Thomas of www.adventuretreff.de. And there are also some outtakes of my lecture at Quo Vadis about the pitfalls of game audio
Dungeons #1 German PC game Charts, #6 UK
Last week, Dungeons (containing our music, sfx, and additional voice post-production) entered the German PC game charts at number 1, and UK at #6. A big Wow and congratulations to Realmforge and Kalypso!
I am just adding the main theme to our demos, trailer is already here if you are interested.
Dungeons (Realmforge/Kalypso)
Dungeons to be released this week
Release date for the German version of Dungeons (Realmforge/Kalypso) is January 27th according to Amazon.de , US release is February 8th according to Amazon.com.
An exclusive limited edition metal box can be bought at MediaMarkt (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). It contains beside a lot of other stuff a CD with our soundtrack.
Looking Back at 2010 – Time for Statistics
OK I finally took the time to make a quick look at what 2010 brought.
STATISTICS!
Our busiest year yet! It appears, Dominik and me made 95 Songs in 2010, for 35 projects, 29 of them games. Not counting reworks, remixes or alternatives.
I delivered 2741 sound effects, ambiences or sound designs for cutscenes to 21 projects, 20 of them games.
And we provided some voices for 6 projects, 5 of them games.
Yes. We had a lot of fun with a lot of games. In January, Handball Simulator 2010, Toyborgs and Hard 2 Morrow came out. I joined the School of Entertainment and Technology as a lecturer and to help with scripts and videos. In April Night of Joeanne received the Deutscher Computerspielpreis for best Student game.
In May, I held my first lecture in Sweden, and our music for Night of Joeanne was played on MTV Game One. June 1st was my last day job work day, plus consecutive move to my new studio mansion, so we are heading full force into soundtracks from that point. Same month, 3 games we provided audio for were elected #1 #2 and #3 of Living Games Newcomer award.
To top that, Addmore Games, developers of Toyborgs (with our music & sfx), received the prestigious Lara Award in July and I was there, too. In August we surpassed 50 games we worked on (we are currently at about 61). In September we started working on Dungeons (Realmforge/Kalypso), which will come out this present month.
In October, we had the honor to provide new music for Medientage München, the biggest media convention in Germany now in its 25th year! And we started to partner up with soundtrack behemoth Dynamedion for hopefully a lot of projects in the future, so I visited one of their orchestra sessions in Halle that month, and made an official demo song for Cinesamples for them. In the same month – what a month – A New Beginning was released, which had kept us busy on and off for a year or so. Not only was this a lot of fun, it also brought us in December the most amazing finale for 2010: the “Deutscher Entwicklerpreis” (German Developer Award) for Best Soundtrack.
Thanks to all of you for talking to us, following our progress, networking with us, sharing your game ideas with us, giving us jobs and in general, making this the coolest profession on the planet.
With best wishes from my colleague Dominik Morgenroth, towards an awesome 2011,
your audio slave,
Daniel Pharos
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis for Best Soundtrack
At Gamescom 2010
We got the German Developer Award for Best Soundtrack 2010 (A New Beginning)
We are amazed to announce that we received the German Developer Award (Entwicklerpreis) in the category Best Soundtrack last night, despite very strong other nominees. Awarded was our work for “A New Beginning” by Daedalic/Deep Silver. Clearly the biggest award we can hope to get in our country.
Daniel and Dominik with their borrowed trophies, Daedalic with their intrinsic awesomeness
Once again a little thank you to Daedalic for their trust and the chance, to Periscope for their work on the prototype soundtrack, and to the 200 people or so who shook our hands last night. What an awesome night!
My little thank-you speech (German), uploaded by Adventuretreff
ALSO, our friends of Sluggerfly and Rated A managed to grab 1st/3rd place of the Gamesload Newcomer Award for Night of Joeanne/Corporate Property, respectively. For both games we had the honor to help out with music and sounds, in the latter case we even provided the voice over. So, we actually were allowed to enter the stage 3 times, how awesome is that, really, so nice of you guys. Big heartfelt congrats!
Official Demo Song for Sample Library “Metallurgy” by Cinesamples
I was asked to provide an official demo song for a sample library: Metallurgy by Cinesamples based in USA. What an honor!
You can check out the library and the demo song “Droid Army Awakes” (end of the page) at the Cinesamples page.
– Daniel
Soundtrack of “A New Beginning” nominated for German Developer Award
“A New Beginning” is nominated for Best Score @ Deutscher Entwicklerpreis, which will be held on December 1st at Essen. It is also nominated for Best Game and Best Story. This nomination is really wonderful, thanks!
Medientage München Video now uploaded
We added the Medientage München video, which we helped storyboarding and provided music for, to our page Watch. You can also check it out below.
Thanks to awesome artist Erasmus Brosdau for the graphics, and to the Medientage crew for the extreme honor!
We provided this alternative music for the massive event in its 24th year, with everyone who is someone in Germany’s media industry, heads of every TV Channel and newspaper, 8 ministers, a lot of TV teams… Wow. I was a little bit awed when I attended the event.
The first jingle was provided by no other than Mr. Klaus Doldinger, one of Germany’s most famous composers (Tatort, Das Boot, Neverending Story), and is still used alternately. Cool to be connected to all that!
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 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.
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 🙂
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.
Knights Of Soundtrack 