Posted on Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Jadestone recently released the game Harry Cannon’s Pipe Dreams on Kongregate. It features a song called “The Ballad of Harry” which can be downloaded via the Reverbnation-widget on top of the page. This is only a small part of the mobile game “Dirk Dagger and the Nuclear Zeppelin”which will soon be released on Nokia’s N-gage.
The new song and video is finally here. Thanks to a great collaboration we’ve managed to create something we’re really proud of.
You can buy the song from indiestore.com/reachground for now. It will be available at iTunes, Amazon and a couple of other retailers in a while. If you want to put the song on your site, blog or in a forum you can use any widget on Reverbnation.
Director: Matias Vega
Animation: Ola Schubert
Graphics: Simón Ubeira
Music and lyrics: Henrik NÃ¥mark Guitar: The Incredible Haze Drums: Magnus Olsson Mixing and mastering: Swednb
I’m proud to have the opportunity to work with such talented people.
A special thank you to Rafael Hedman and Elin Lundin for supporting me through everything. You guys are great.
I also owe a thanks to Melanie Genereux. She got an early version of the song and suggested a third verse. I listened and added.
To top it all of, YHTBTR is nominated for Innovation in the 2009 Independent Games festival. I really want to go to San Fransisco to attend the awards but I’m not sure I can. The tickets + expenses will surely amount to at least 1000 EUROS which is way over my budget. Oh well, you never know what might happen.
I read some comments about the nomination and realised that some people think YHTBTR don’t belong on the list. I can’t make you like the game and if you don’t, to be honest, I’m not going to lose sleep over it. But I want to make something clear which is obviously just a misunderstanding. People who think YHTBTR was something Kian and me threw together in a hurry need to think again. To get it in perspective, let me tell you about the text on the way to the boss. If you count the hours me and Kian talked about colors, placements, alternative ideas, testing it on people and so on, it amounts to at least ten. Do the math and you’ll understand how long it took to complete the full game.
Spike TV will be airing a show tonight about the rising stars of gaming. Towards the end they’re going to play Now you’re a hero. Read more in GameDaily.
If Spike TV is not available to you, download the TVU player. To make it complicated they have a three hour delay. This is what I’ve come up to. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The Next Game Gods will be airing at Spike TV at 00:30 12/12 (which is technically 13/12) EST.
That means that if Sweden (where I’m from) would air it live with no delay we could see it at 06:30 in the morning at 13/12.
Since the TVU player is transmitting with a three hour delay you’ll have to add that. That means that here in Sweden I could watch the show at 9:30 saturday morning.
God damn. I’m a genius! I deserve to be on that show!
I’ve had a couple of e-mails requesting that I should release the song Battlezone. As an early christmas present it’s now downloadable for free. You can get it from the Reverbnation widget at the top of this site.
It’s released as Creative Commons which means you can use it for free if you don’t make any money and credit me properly.
Posted on Thursday, November 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
The good people over at Swedish Game Awards asked me to make a jingle/soundlogo for their videos. Finally it’s done. Check it out here where it’s played before Kians speach about the process that led to You Have to Burn the Rope. Unfortunately only in swedish.
As we approached the new year, the best of 2008 awards started to pop up. I was really happy that 
I’ve had a couple of e-mails requesting that I should release the song Battlezone. As an early christmas present it’s now downloadable for free. You can get it from the Reverbnation widget at the top of this site.