Robo-Safari
Original sound design created by manipulating horse, panther and walrus sounds through spectral toolsets
How to live your life as a video games character
Always assume it’s all about you. Never for a single minute think that you are not the centre of the universe. Everybody else plays a bit part in your story, so start acting like the world revolves around you. Treat people as acquaintances and say yes to every character building, physicality strengthening opportunity. Who else ..
Fightback Review
Sounding like the tagline to an 80s action sequel, Fightback is the latest Beat em up from Ninja theory and Chillingo. The facially tattoo-ed Drago has kidnapped your sister. It is up to you, Jack the musclebound hero and the might of your punching prowess to save her. Straight out of the eighties, your character Jack ..
That Bouncy Thing
“That Bouncy Thing” is an adventurous physics puzzler wrapped in a chaotic and uniquely changeable “rubbishy” landscape. Sound to picture trailer, made at FortuneFish
Future Tibetan Monks go to the Mall
Created by mixing original field recordings from locations in Asia with digital gurglings created in Reaktor
The road to Vegas. Part one.
Wagons roll. Eastwards we truck. Onwards and over there. Advancing forth, beginning the long inward peregrination towards the mighty Yosemite and the lighty Las Vegas. A particularly palpable excitement is present as we drive with giddy grins on our faces. It’s a very worked up childlike feeling, like a juiced up electric coil has been ..
Donnie Darko – The Directors Cut Review
What makes you think I’m not a superhero? Jake Gyllenhall Maggie Gyllenhall Jena Malone Patrick Swayze Drew Barrymore Directed by Richard Kelly Synopsis: In this eighties inflected, supernatural/sci-fi classic, Jake Gyllenhall stars as a troubled teenager experiencing bizarre visions after escaping death from a falling jet engine. His intelligence intimidates his teachers, but increasingly ..
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 ..
Remediation, symbiosis and the media industries
Since the inception of the video games genre, video games have played catch-up to the medium of film. Not only in terms of social credibility but also in terms of defining itself as a worthwhile art form. A significant proportion of society still considers the video games medium to be a substandard embodiment of inferior influence ..
Createrria Review
“Become famous game designer!” proclaims the app store description, and with design tools like these, you just might be able to. Createrria is a game design app by new Polish startup, Incuvo. Already achieving finalist in the European Game connection 2012, second place at Pitchforce, and being selected at the indie prize showcase in San Francisco, ..