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The Mage's Initiation complete digital soundtrack is now available to buy! Over 2 hours and 20 minutes of music in a whopping 92 tracks! (Including bonus tracks, some of which went unused in the final game!) You also get 4 hi-res variations of the cover artwork so you can can customize the soundtrack in your music player with your own personal elemental affinity!

$12 CAD (or $9 USD) on my Bandcamp store in a variety of formats (MP3, FLAC, and more!):

https://music.brandonblume.com/album/mages-initiation-original-game-soundtrack

Anyone who's a fan of Interplay games, jump on GOG and get their "Back To School" sale. You can get the entire lot for $30 down from $300. Apparently Interplay is selling all its assets so these probably won't be around anymore at least not for quite a long time possibly. Highly recommend you pick it up. And since it's GOG you don't need anything like Steam to play it. Just download and go! Yours forever.

Classics like Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Judgment Rites, Starfleet Academy, Freespace, Toonstruck, Redneck Rampage, Jagged Alliance, Earthworm Jim, MDK, Kingpin, and tons more.

https://www.gog.com/promo/20160926_back_to_school_sale_interplay_byob

So a local radio station in my town had a summer show about video game music this year and asked me to come into their studio to do an interview seeing as I compose music for video games. We discussed, among many things, what makes video game music special, how composing for video games can be very different from any other media, and some of the music I've written for games in the past (as well as some upcoming that haven't been released yet).

Also featured, of course, is a few tracks from the upcoming Mage's Initiation includign a teaser of a new track previously unheard from the game so check it out!

Click on the September 9th link (I recommend the 128kbps download for best quality). The show starts at around the 3:30 mark.

https://ckuw.ca/programs/detail/system-kidz

So, yeah. Back this because this needs to happen. It's the same group that saved the Enterprise D bridge a while back. They have big plans....plans too awesome to fail.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newstarship/hollywood-sci-fi-science-fiction-museum

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Hey, guys! I'm excited to announce my first step on my own into the music industry (besides the game work I've done) with my first song entitled "Uncontrolled Reentry"!



It's a 9-minute instrumental with elements of electronic, rock, progressive, and probably more reflecting my personal journey through life, how unpredictable it's been, and how I'm positive and excited about where the future will take me. All that fancy wording aside, it's basically just finally my own project with my own ideas and outlook on music that I've been wanting to get out there for years. It's inspired by artists like Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, and even bands like Dream Theatre and Pagan's Mind. It's available from my website BrandonBlume.com, my Facebook Page and my Bandcamp music store only right now, but it will be coming to iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, and more digital distributors in the coming weeks, and I'll let you know when that happens.

I'm releasing this single preemptively to support a forthcoming full-length album I'm thinking of calling "Peaks and Valleys". I'll be representing a somewhat wider variety of styles in the full album in various ways, but mostly by combining my favourite sounds into one style, similar to how I've done that in this single. And don't worry, the Mage's soundtrack is well underway and not being interfered with by this project.

You can stream Uncontrolled Reentry from my Bandcamp music store or from my SoundCloud. If you like what you hear and want to hear more please consider throwing me a dollar and supporting me and my project!

I hope you enjoy it. And if you do please spread the word and mention it to your friends.

EDIT: Uncontrolled Reentry is now available on multiple digital distribution music stores like iTunes, Amazon, and eventually CD Baby with more to follow (Rhapsody, Google Music Store, etc). So, for those who prefer those mediums, it's available for you!

You can still get it from my website/Bandcamp music store as well, where you can set your own price (min $1)!

[WebsiteInterview with Jane Jensen]

This is apparently "Mystery Game X" that Jane Jensen and Pinkerton Road Studios have been teasing since their Kickstarter. The backgrounds look amazing and the remade theme song is quite good as well.

Website
Interview with Jane Jensen

Not sure if this has been posted, or how new this is. Filled with a lot of interesting information that basically confirms what I'd guessed all along. The higher ups just never cared about games. I'm truly sad to read about what 1313 was going to be and what it didn't have the chance to become. This kind of behaviour is so rampant in the entire gaming industry today and is why I still kind of believe that the market will crash again as a result. You can only destroy good projects and screw over loyal fanbases so long before finally they'll wake up and get sick of it. At least, I'd hope so. Good developers and names that were gaming's biggest and best disappear as a result and in their place we have snobby douchebag companies (really, the suits and higher ups/execs) that couldn't give a care about any of it as long as it follows marketing research enough to not be too big a risk so they can make money. It's truly sad and astonishing that this type of leadership, the lies, the betrayal, and the apathy is allowed to continue. It's truly disgusting and I almost feel like we should all be boycotting it entirely until it fixes itself. But I know that's just being naive as to how the industry works and, really, has always worked. It's just that every now and then good things are allowed to happen (Monkey Island, Duke Nukem 3D, Space Quest, tons of other great titles and franchises) and slip under the radar, past the clutches of the great hungry corporate monster and the greedy intruding fingers of the manipulators and meddlers.

It's all so disgusting. I'm glad I've never been buying that many games lately in the past few years. I'd shudder to think that I'd actually purchased Sim City after what happened to that. I'm too afraid to buy anything anymore because you never know what will happen.

http://kotaku.com/ho...part-1401731043

A particular quote of painful news:

In news that will certainly crush anyone who enjoyed LucasArts-branded adventure games, the team at LucasArts Singapore was working on a remastered version of the classic point-and-click game Day of the Tentacle, according to three people familiar with that project. Like the special editions of the first two Monkey Island games, released in 2009 and 2010, the remastered Day of the Tentacle would be pseudo-3D, with remade background art and cut-scenes redone to run at 30 frames per second.7

Although this Day of the Tentacle remake was never officially greenlit, two sources say it was almost finished. One person familiar with the project pegs it at 80% done. But it was never approved, and the company's higher-ups had no interest in continuing to make what they called "legacy" titles like this one. So the game remains unreleased—and perhaps there's a near-finished Day of the Tentacle HD sitting on a shelf somewhere in Singapore, never to be touched again.8

It's devastating. Day of the Tentacle, a hilarious point-n-click adventure that did the whole three protagonists thing years before Grand Theft Auto even existed, is almost impossible to purchase legally today. This is a game that deserves a digital re-release.

"For many involved this was a dream project," said one person who worked on the game. "But sadly, like many, many LucasArts games in development, it never saw the light of day."

[Mage's Initiation Main Theme]

In celebration of reaching our $95,000 "quest goal", I've revealed the Main Theme for Mage's Initiation for all to hear! This particular version may not make it into the game, but I consider it the full main theme for the game (and/or series if we get to that point!). Check it out!

Mage's Initiation Main Theme

Also, check out more select musical picks from the game if you haven't already!

Mage's Initiation Select Music Themes

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I asked this at QuestStudios' forums but (understandably) never got an answer so I thought I'd get it from the horse's mouth and ask here. (not that you are a horse, Britney, or anyone else for that matter lol)

I noticed that there's a bit of a conflict in how Al's name is pronounced (specifically accents). Al seems to always refer to himself as "Al Emmo" but everybody else in the game says "Al Emmo". I was wondering what the proper pronunciation is.