Excited to announce that I have been working in collaboration with Funky Rustic on sound effects for the sci-fi city-building game “Aven Colony“! Check out the Beta today! Many thanks to my colleague Alexander Brandon for the opportunity to work on this very nifty and spacey game:)
http://avencolony.com/category/updates/
https://mothership.itch.io/aven-colony
Craving some insane piano and tenor music this morning? Take a listen to the vocal arrangement of “Cohen’s Masterpiece” (from the video game Bioshock) we did for Materia Collective’s “SONG CYCL: The History of Video Games” album. I had the pleasure of writing melody and lyrics for three tracks on SONG CYCLE. Visit the SONG CYCLE Materia Collective page to buy individual tracks and/or the full album PLUS we have karaoke versions of our songs too so you can sing along!
“Cohen’s Masterpiece” (from Bioshock) – on Soundcloud
vocals – John Robert Matz
piano arrangement and performance – Joel Everett
lyrics and melody – Bonnie Bogovich
based on original music – Garry Schyman
Excited that “Adventures in VR Game Music: Prototyping tools and techniques” got accepted to MAGFest. I will be a panelist with fellow virtual reality audio pros Tim Rosko, Alec Galambos, and Jameson Sutton. Details coming soon! #gameaudio #vr #audiovr
www.magfest.org
During my time at Schell Games, Daniel Tigers Neighborhood wasn’t the only PBS Kids show we developed games for. Fans of the math program “Peg + Cat” will be happy to know two new games we created, “Mega Mall” and “Hair Salon” are now available on PBSKids.org. I had lots of fun working on dialogue and sound effects for these two, and highly recommend checking out the show as well! A smart girl on Ukulele and a talking cat? What’s not to love. 🙂
“I Expect You To Die”, the VR Oculus Rift spy game I was #gameaudio lead for while at Schell Games, launches tomorrow, the same day as the new Oculus Touch controller! We’ve been getting lots of press lately, two special mentions today;
Wired Magazine – “I Expect You To Die is the most fun I’ve ever had in VR”
Engadget – “Oculus Touch controllers are well worth the wait!”
Upload VR – ‘I Expect You To Die’ Review: A View To A Thrill Continue reading
I designed a little fact app/skill for Amazon Echo and Alexa devices, “Composer Facts” full of Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner factoids. To find on your device, look in the Skills for “Composer Facts”, say “Alexa, Enable Composer Facts” or use this direct link!
Ps: Know any fun facts I may have missed about these three composers that would be great to add? Let me know and I’ll try to get them in the next update:)
Happy Atoms, the fun science iPad app and physical atom toy that I worked on at Schell Games, is now available for purchase at Toys”R”Us!
“The physical and digital teaching tool that lets you discover the world of molecules in an intuitive, hands-on way.”
Greg Velichansky and I used Audiokinetic Wwise for #gameaudio creation and mixing. Was a fun game to try it on:)
One of the most beautiful games I worked on while at Schell Games this year was “Frostbound” for the Google Daydream VR Headset. This trailer features the intro theme music written by our intern Brandon Guillot, with me and Tim Rosko singing in the ‘choir’ (was a fun audio department collaboration) and I had the pleasure of doing the sound design and music for the gameplay. I hope you enjoy this fantastical adventure, perfect for the wintery months ahead!
Watch the Frostbound Trailer on Youtube
#gameaudio #vr #vraudio #audiovr #daydream #choir #frostbound
Happy to announce that “Domino World” (an Augmented Reality app we made during my time at Schell Games for Tango) is now available for purchase through the Google Play store! Sound Design and Music by former intern Brandon Guillot and me.
UPDATE: NEW TRAILER view here
Check out the article on the Google Dev Blog for behind the scenes and a team photo!
Have a super fun time putting Dominos on… everything.. yes, including your furniture, and your cat, and watching them fall! #gameaudio #audiovr #vraudio #tango
As a vocalist, I have personally battled over what piano+voice arrangements to perform in a recital… now you can enjoy some of your favorite video game themes, with lyrics, in a classically arranged collection with SONG CYCLE by Materia Collective! I had the pleasure of collaborating and writing lyrics for three of the arrangements featured, “Home” from Fez, “What a Deal on this Plot!” from Plants Vs Zombies, and “Cohens Masterpiece” from Bioshock. You can enjoy these three arrangements, featuring the talents of John Robert Matz, Laura Intravia, Doug Perry, Ben Wallace, Joel Everett, Sebastian Wolff and Elizabeth Zharoff today with our downloadable album. Karaoke versions of the tracks (so you can sing along) AND sheet music is also available! Please visit our info page at https://www.materiacollective.com/music/song-cycle-the-history-of-video-games
#gameaudio
