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.
Gordon over at irRegularGames released a new game containing a small tribute to You Have to Burn the Rope. It features a sample from my song Now You’re a Hero.
A few months ago I got a request to make a credits song for a student project at the Guildhall. Their graduation project is a Half-Life 2 mod called “Color of Doom”. This time I got help from my brothers in The Brown Pumas. I chose to act as producer and let Rafael and The Incredible Haze shine. My ego took a punch but I’ll survive
When I worked as a salesman in New Zealand, my boss used to stress how important it was to be surrounded by successful people. Luckily I have close friends who are just that. I usually get along best with creative minds and during the recent days, the brilliance of these minds have been awarded.
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Fabian Lenhard
The other day Fabian told me that he hated working with me because I was too straight up. “If you think it’s crap you’ll say it’s crap”. I think that’s the only way to go. That smile in your face and knife in the back is just not my style. Ask me about your work and I’m going to be honest. If you just want a pat on the back don’t ask me, I won’t give it to you unless you truly deserv it.
A few weeks ago Fabian played me a new song he’d been working on. I loved it at first listen. When it was close to the end he invited me to help with the mixing. We sat for many hours tweaking the song and I added some ideas which worked really well.
There’s a swedish magazine called Studio. They have a forum which sends out a newsletter every second week. The editorial staff chose Fabian’s song as one of the top 5. “Brilliant song that resembles Queen of the Stone Age and other Californian 90s bands.” If you haven’t thrown yourself at Google to find his song yet I recommend you check out Fabian at Reverbnation. Download “Through the Night” and enjoy!
The event starts at 03:00 and they announce Kian as a winner at 04:30:
Gameplay:
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Henrik NÃ¥mark
Since I’m also a good friend of mine I have to promote some events of myself. The widget I’m using from Reverbnation has now been shown 100.000 times. That has to be worth something!
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.