Today, I’m incredibly proud to finally announce that Fossil Echo is going to be part of the incredibly prestigious PAX 10 indie game showcase. The team will be there during the September 2nd-5th convention in downtown Seattle, so come by our booth and play the game!
I’m Incredibly proud to finally release our 2+ year labor of love, Fossil Echo, on Steam.
I wrote the hour-plus long musical score, and Gordon McGladdery and Em Halberstadt did the phenomenal sound design. FE sounds *really* good thanks to them.🙂
Working alongside the phenomenal Phil Crifo, our designer and the man who hand-crafted all the art and animations in the game, and Thierry Boura for the past several years has been a genuine pleasure.
I hope you all get a huge kick out of playing our game.
The game is priced at $15 for the standard edition and $20 for the special edition, which includes the original soundtrack, a quite impressive PDF “Making Of” artbook, avatars, wallpapers, and more.
After 3 years in development, Fossil Echo is finally out in the wild, and you can buy and play it today!
Purchasing it from fossilecho.com gets you a Humble copy and a Steam Key you can employ today (the main Steam release is on July 8th!)
$15 nets you the Standard Edition, while $20 lands a Special Edition, which includes a 25-track soundtrack (with 2 bonus tracks!), a big PDF “Making Of” artbook, wallpapers, avatars, and more!
In addition, the Soundtrack is out on Bandcamp and Loudr!
Hello all!
Right about now we’re closing into the final hours of Fossil Echo‘s pre-order campaign. A 2D platformer with stunning hand-drawn graphics, a world influenced by Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, and Ghibli films, a wordless story told both through environmental storytelling and lush, fully animated cutscenes, and old-school gameplay with hints of Oddworld and Prince of Persia.
The game is available for $15 for the base game and $20 for the Special Edition, but during the pre-order you get the Special Edition for the price of the base game, $15.
The Special Edition includes the Original Soundtrack in MP3 and 24-bit, 48khz FLAC, a 20+ page PDF art book on the creation of the game, wallpapers, avatars, and more!
We release officially on July 1st though our site (and the corresponding Humble widget), and on Steam the following week, July 8th, but when you buy from us, you’ll get a Steam key to use immediately.
I’ll be releasing bits of the Soundtrack over the next few days on my SoundCloud page, so tune in from time to time, or just check out my BandCamp or Loudr after the launch to download (and listen) to the full soundtrack!
Please help spread the word about Fossil Echo!
On this date, February 24th, 1986, a momentous event occurred. I was born.
Since that luminous moment 30 years ago today, I have attempted with all my power to bring art, knowledge, and light to all humanity, but instead just written written music for video games and absurd films.
A few months ago, when the HD version of Final Fantasy VII was announced, a good friend of mine, Sebastian Wolff, got the idea to reach out to his contacts in the game audio world and see who would be interested in forming a group to reimagine Nobuo Uematsu’s iconic score in a remix album. The enthusiasm was immediate. Those people reached out to other people, and soon a team of over 200 musicians, arrangers, remixers, and composers joined together in a spirit of collaboration and creativity to become the Materia Collective.
Friday, we launched our first album: Final Fantasy VII Remixed.
This 5-disc album is available on Loudr, iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify (if you want to get a taste for everything before buying it😉 )
It’s $15, and is officially licensed through Square; the original artists get a cut, as do we.🙂
As for my contribution, I had the privilege of working with the amazing violinist Michaela Nachtigall and the excellent percussionist Joel Everett to bring my contribution to the project to life: a remix of a rather quirky and laid-back track, “It’s Difficult to Stand on Both Feet”. I reworked it for trumpet (my own instrument of choice), violin, and orchestra, placing it in a more scherzo-like frenetic mode, and writing elaborate florid cadenzas for both soloists, while allowing for a variety of virtuosic moments.
I couldn’t have done it my fantastic collaborators (thank you so much, both of you!), and I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I did writing it!
Now, to the second order of business!
FOR THE KING HAS JUST 3 DAYS REMAINING ON OUR KICKSTARTER!!!
We’ve had a fantastic run so far, making our initial goal as well as a healthy number of stretch goals, but we still have a bit more to go to get to our $125k goal of a “Above the Clouds” (airships! highland cities!), and the more distant, but equally-awesome Backers’ Select tier, at $155k. I’d like to thank everyone who’s pledged to the campaign already, you’re all fantastic people, and thanks to you, For the King is happening. I only ask that you help to spread the word in these final days; the more funding we get, the more expansive and polished a game we can make.
Thank you again, for everything. You’re wonderful.
For the King is a turn-based fantasy RPG with strong Roguelike elements, currently under development by the Vancouver-based awesomepeople at IronOak Games! I’m incredibly fortunate to part of this amazing team, and I’m psyched to get to score something of this setting and scope.
For the King takes place in a fantasy kingdom rapidly succumbing to the forces of evil and chaos. To make matters worse, her monarch has just been slain under mysterious circumstances, prompting the queen to make a desperate plea to her people to set aside their lives, rise up, and stem the tide of impending doom. It’s a hard-edged world, but one in which hope still flourishes.
We just launched our Kickstarter, and would absolutely love it if you checked it out and shared it with your friends!
If you missed it earlier, here’s our initial teaser trailer:
For the King is aiming for release in 2016 on PC, Mac, and Linux, (mobile platforms likely in stretch!) and features a robust co-op online multiplayer mode in addition to it’s single-player experience.
I hope you enjoy what you’ve seen and consider backing us; there’s a bunch of awesome backer rewards, as well as an array of early-bird discounts! Thank you again for your time and support; For the King is an incredibly exciting project, and I hope that with your help we can make it a reality.
Thanks!
