Friday 28 June 2013

First Album Release

Hey Guys

So Some might know I have an album being developed this year, due out hopefully this year also. But it has some back story to it thats a little different from most albums.

I started it last year as a small project to develop some music along the lines of an RPG with inspirations from the Sega Saturn game, Panzer Dragoon Saga. With me learning Wwise at the time and if you read here regularly you'll know that I incorporated the music into the development. It was to become part of the components that could be used to make a game. So from no visuals or code or a world to place my work in, I began to make little functions and events all based on the sound of a theoretical game.

By the start of this year I was well under way with the album, being slightly detached from the game in that I could finish it but not agame by myself. However I began to apply my curiosity to game dev, firstly in Gamemaker from Steam which I made my first game. Secondly I went through Unity and through that I created a level which you could walk about in and enjoy the sounds and music. Step forward to today and I've been tinkering in blender to produce props for a second level that was designed to be a part of the original concept game I previously made functions for.

This summer I have began to tie down the album, refining and remixing to get what I could get out of it. This would be my inspiration to build the game, all the music tracks based on my imagination would become explorable levels. The really exiting prospect of being able to make a game around my own artistic direction but restrained by my beginner skills has kept me pushing through the rough recession.

I hope you enjoy the album and will release more details when I can [n.n]

Have a great day
SGW