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Here are some stories of me and Turrican-

When I was 6 years old and had just got an Amiga, I routed through my parents room and found Turrican 2 in their wardrobe. I played it and confessed when my dad came in from work. They weren’t mad, it was what I did back then (I also used to break out of my crib as a toddler… somehow. The metal bars under the mattress would end up bent and I’d be freeee. No idea how I did that).

Age 7-8 I used to load up Turrican 1 and eject the disk just so it would stay on the loading screen for ever. I think I drew pictures or read magazines with it on loop, can’t remember!

Age 15 I tried to make a Turrican fangame using some concepts of the original-

• Large, semi-linear levels
• Upgradable weapons
• Swarms of enemies/enemy generators

… but it was only a little demo.

Around this time I ripped the Turrican soundtrack myself using my Amiga and PC. It’s a wonderful soundtrack.

This is spectacular. Well done Swede Mason.

They’re probably floating around elsewhere but here’s a nice simple page with my most recent soundtracks (also lots of Pineapple on the Tormi one) >

Right lads n lassies, here’s a mega piece of oldness for yous! In 2003-2004 me and MrPineapple collaborated on an RPG called Madventures of the Love Rockets. The game was never finished because of technical reasons, it needed a whole recode and I wasn’t prepared for that, nor did I have the time. Soon after I started work on New Satan Sam so the RPG was just abandoned. Anyways!

It was mostly about my friends and I, set in the area where we live. The game started off with the player approaching Grotton Tunnel, you got into your first battle then one of the characters says “it’s too dark in here” so you run home (freeroam section), find some torches which also introduces some other characters, then back to the first level. That’s all there was but it was supported by a finished exploration and battle engine.

We did gut the soundtrack and use one of the most fitting songs in Tormishire as, well, it really bloody fits and as a tribute.

Seriously folks give it a listen. The OST is unfinished along with the game and, just like the game the source files are long gone. But here is what remained. 21 tracks of old. Edit: Missed out some other tracks!

Downloadage! 70mb

I think I might have to get a Vuvuzela.

MrPineapple and I have selected 19 tracks from the Tormishire soundtrack for a little sampler.

So yea. I did a cover of the Great Bath (from Turrican 2) a while ago, MrPineapple threw a guitar over it and there we have it!

So I’ve finally decided to take the leap into online highscore tables. Or leaderboards if you never saw the 90’s. Hadal has an online highscore list built into the game which can display the Top 100 scores or the 10 newest scores. Without mental hesitation be assured this progressive situario will be shifted onto all the games I’m currently working on. Tormishire’s will probably use them in a minigame or to showcase the people who 100% it, and in what time.

Also just got back from this , an eccentric and playful collaboration between my girlfriends choir and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra that was all about a “21st century vocal work that reflects our present understanding and scientific knowledge of the creation theory” but it was good for an agnostic too. Some parts were quite hectic on the ears, I saw it more as an art piece than a choral piece with some off-key flutters here and there. They kicked off with a performance of Haydn’s The Creation which was to showcase the parallel between previous and new knowledge of that big spacey thing. Mad modern goodness though my ears were yearning for a more traditional dose of Mozart or Haydn afterwards.

So 2009 really was a space year. For what its worth both Hadal and Tempest have some connection with space, must be in the stars.

Almost a year ago I was out photography model shoot thingy. The building that I set up in had a load of junk lying around, according to the owners it was all left there when they moved in. So they let me have a midi keyboard! Evolution as well (whose name I remember from an old midi composing app from years before). But it suffered the same fate at my house and was thrown in a corner to get dusty.

Until today! I wasn’t even sure it worked since it had no power adapter but I rummaged around the house and found one, wired it up using my M-Audio midi to USB adapter and Garageband on the Macbook and BAM! It works like a charm. But this is much better than my old keyboard due to its size and pitch/modulation wheels. The reason why I stopped making tracks for Tormi was because my Roland keyboard was much too large. So yea.

Tl;dr discarded keyboard I found works, back to making musics.

Pineapple theme

To continue with all the giving here’s a little piece from MrPineapple, his cameo’s theme in the game. S’all rather beautiful and actually 2 songs welded together in Audacity.