THE ORDER: 1886 Soundtrack Rebuild
Music composition and sound effects. The Order: 1886 is a supernatural steam punk game which allowed me to explore a dark aural underbelly of an alternative snarling history
Choose your own Buenos Aires adventure.
A nineteen hour bus ride out of Puerto de Igazu gets you to the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Surprisingly you sleep deep and long on the journey, still shaking off the might of a heavy night spent in perpetual happy hour. The previous evening sits in a hazy corner flashing snippets of stirring conversation ..
Angry Birds Go! Review
Angry avians take on the might of Mariokart in their first 3d foray, but does the world need another contender in the kart racing genre?
Star Champion
Music Composition. Working inside the dubstep/electro genre, this piece was commissioned initially as a thirty second piece which grew to become the extended soundtrack for a boss battle for the sci-fi inspired video game Star Champion
The Wolf Among Us Review
An extreme heat hangs over the residents of Fabletown. As the humidity stifles the inner city woodlands area, an oversized walking toad is pushing your buttons and your arch nemesis is knocking lumps out of somebody upstairs. It’s going to be a long night. As Sheriff Bigby Wolf, it is up to you to keep ..
Godzilla 2014 Review
Brian Cranston. Juliette binoche. Elizabeth Olsen. Aaron Taylor-Johnson Directed by Gareth Edwards. Synopsis: After being awoken by the radiation hungry M.U.T.O. Godzilla returns to combat in a battle for dominance of the Earth. Opening with a brilliantly conceived twist on redacted historic news reels of the 1950s pacific, Godzilla returns in this human-centric take on ..
Why people hate my sound design
(Stick with me, there’s some actual science behind this) Monday Morning… 10.13 am. I receive a direct message from my work colleague. “Ryan, that sound you made last Friday…” “Erm, which one …?” “The sound of the character eating the Chocolate bar” “Oh yeh… is it not working in game?” “No, it’s definitely ..
Which gadgets/items should I take on an extended holiday/vacation?
For those in the envious position of planning an extended trip, you may be asking yourself which items or gadgets do I really need to take? What follows is a list formulated from experience on a trip spanning five continents from September 2013 to May 2014. SmartPhone My iPhone 5 was perhaps the piece of tech ..
Highway one
From Joshua tree national park we take a hot windy drive over to the Californian west coast, towards Highway One. From vantage points we overlook Palm Springs through a hazy cloud of pollution that really shouldn’t be there. The brume has drifted southwards from Central California and obscures the distant landscapes that should be visible ..
Power of the author
To ‘authorise’ is to endorse, give approval or validate the worth of something. With the weight of that definition comes ‘authority’, so the role of the author is to be elevated by association. A successful, well-known literature author will sell books based upon name alone as their proximity to a text sends forth a perceived ..