Zork walkthrough in rock form

Posted by | October 20, 2009

For those who have never played text adventure games, they were a staple of the early computing environment—an extension of Choose Your Own Adventure books into a more interactive form. Needless to say, walkthroughs existed even then, when we only had the light of ASCII to guide us.

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I asked pifie to write an instrumental that I could write lyrics too. And for some strange reason he said yes and actually made one for me! So here I am singing to it. It is very… very… geeky.

In fact, I think only two of you will get the reference. But… oh well.

This SOUNDS easy, but it wasn’t… and I messed up in the end, but it was 2am and I got tired. Timing was really hard, and I now officially hate the word "Screwdriver".

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Video Game Music Attracts Major Composers, Musicians

Posted by | December 30, 2008

Video games these days are big productions, and with good reason. The gaming industry is looking to clean up about 50-billion dollars in revenues this year, and this growing power to suck cash from the wallets of all peoples of the world shows no signs of relenting. The hunger of gamers and gaming has no end, and cannot be satisfied, only sated for a brief moment, by the next latest and greatest experience. To craft these experiences, game designers build their worlds using the latest technologies, the finest graphics their budgets can conjure up, and the best music from the most skilled professionals in the world.

That means calling out to the minions of the music industry, labouring in their pits and studio hovels. Not only that, but the clarion horn of video gaming cash has echoed through the valley of Hollywood, drawing out those …

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8-Bit Jesus: Retro Gaming Christmas Music

Posted by | December 26, 2008

One of the many joys of running wild on a popular blog site is that I get to introduce thousand of people to my own personal favourite things. You might have noticed I’ve a bit of a fetish for retro gaming from the old NES era, and I’m not alone in this strange desire. The good Doctor Octoroc has thrown together a collection of Christmas carols, mixed in the 8-bit style like all good video game music should be. The result is 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games, and why are you still here reading this? Go! Go now!

Okay, maybe you need more convincing.

Here’s why this collection of video game Christmas music kicks ass; the songs aren’t just some remix of carols with bleeps and blurps in for the notes. Oh no. …

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Music Video Games Boost Sales for Featured Artists

Posted by | December 21, 2008

Gee, turns out the video gaming world, a vast demographic with alot of disposable cash, really does buy music. This is something the music industry is discovering for themselves as the album sales of bands that show up in fake-rock music games have doubled over the past year. Not only is the industry taking notice, but the bands are, too. Locking in a track on Guitar Hero or Rock Band might be worth mad bank to an older band, but to a newbie group just off the club scene, that kind of exposure can be the start of a career.

Music video game sales have doubled in the past year, reaching nearly 2-billion in the human dollars. That’s less than traditional music sales, who pulled down about 10-billion in the big monies, but as CD sales decline, music games are catching up fast. In a few …

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Icecream Headache: The World of Goo soundtrack is so beautiful it makes us cry

Posted by | December 1, 2008


World of Goo Trailer 2 Director’s Cut
by 2dboy

This game is amazing–and the music is simply tearjerking and wonderful. The track in this video is called “Conflict of Interest.” It speaks to the very narrative behind World of Goo, a puzzler game of discovery, of romanticism, and dashed hopes–of dreaming about a bigger, better, more wonderful world surrounded in the very strange ethereal effervescence that transcends all and makes us real.

Go forth with all our love and adulation. Find this game on 2dBoy for download from places like Steam; or get it from WiiWare.

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