Knights Of Soundtrack

Looking back at 2011 – Statistics!

Daniel Pharos — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:37:43 +0000

So, it’s finally time for our look back at the year 2011.

Right to the hard numbers. We were even busier than last year apparently, having composed 155 tracks with a combined length of 214 minutes for 34 games and 4 other projects. Insane. We provided 3092 sound effects for 19 games and 3 other projects. We have silently skated over the 100 projects line, but the 100th game will be celebrated in style, hopefully this year…

The year started with the release of Dungeons, one of the bigger games we have worked on so far, that went on to hit #1 charts position in Germany and #6 in the UK, how awesome is that? It came with a cool soundtrack CD, we love that.

Then followed the releases of A Knights Dawn and Demolition Dash for iOS devices, the latter of which later received the Best Handheld Game award at the German Developer Awards (Entwicklerpreis). The betas of Bigpoint’s Ramacity (thanks for that big chance guys) and Ravenburger’s Memory® World Tour started.

After a rather calm summer, my article in Making Games magazine was released right on time for my favourite Gamescom so far… I had so many good chats there, so many chances, some of them wild and surprising… This year’s Gamescom will hopefully be as much fun…

I held my first lecture at SAE/Quantm Institute, making it the 3rd school I gave a lecture at. The 4th will follow this year!

The rest of the year saw the releases of Happy Hills, Triple Trouble, Dungeons – The Dark Lord , Rettungswagen Simulator and Sengoku (by the Swedish publisher Paradox). A totally new kind of job was the sound design for the music video by the band Nachtmahr.

We were also asked to help our friends at Games Academy with audio for the games Gargoyles, Nocturne and Call of Carlos. Anytime guys!

Very happy we are for the cooperation with our friends at Dynamedion, who were so kind to take us on board for a few projects which are mostly unannounced – yet!

And lastly, greetings to the games we worked on in 2011 that are still unannounced (many they are), to those we are working on (hello Asylum, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav and Forge of Empires) and to those that will come out in 2012 (we have some big surprises in store), and to those sad few ones whose future is a bit dark at the moment…

A BIG THANK YOU to our friends, clients & contacts for the great games you create, for allowing us to help making them, and for your general existence Wish you all a great year and who knows – maybe we’ll work together on a project in 2012?

Cheers,

Daniel, with best wishes of Dominik, Heike and Simon

Music and Sounds for Forge of Empires

Daniel Pharos — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:30:27 +0000

It was about time I finally mention that we provide music and sounds for Forge of Empires, a new strategy online game by the awesome folks at InnoGames. It’s a browser strategy game with a few twists…

Check out the trailer below, or go to the website to play the beta.

Mission Genesis: Closed Beta launched

Daniel Pharos — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:16:12 +0000

Knights in Space! We have provided sounds and some of the music for Mission Genesis, a scifi online game by Chimera and DTP. Check out their website:

http://www.mission-genesis-game.de/

Music and sound for The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

Daniel Pharos — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:01:57 +0000

Happy to introduce you to a game we have accompanied the last year: The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is another adventure game by Daedalic, and it’s based on a fantasy license: The Dark Eye (“Das Schwarze Auge”) is the biggest pen & paper franchise in Germany, and renowned around the world. The game is a beautiful fairytale fantasy adventure, Daedalic at their best…

Our soundtrack is something special, too, I think. We were joined by a few live musicians for a calm, emotional fairytale soundtrack…Thanks to Kathy Lestrémau (Violin), Sarah M. Newman (Vocals, Fiddle) and Angelika Voigt (Harp).

Here is a little taste:

We will talk more about it soon, but let’s just note that the release is scheduled for March 23rd in Germany, and here is the website if you want to see more.

Released: Triple Trouble (iOS)

Daniel Pharos — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:52:25 +0000

Triple Trouble by Polynauten has hit the app store, for which we made parts of the sounds, voices and jingles. It’s a cute Match-3 game for Iphone and Ipad… Check it out…

Demolition Dash gets Best Handheld 2011 Award

Daniel Pharos — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:25:18 +0000

Hi guys, Demolition Dash received the Best Handheld 2011 award @ Deutsche Entwicklerpreis (German Developer Award). Congratulations!

Also a friendly nod to the other games we helped with, which were nominated and didn’t quite win: Ramacity (Best Social Game) & Dungeons (Best Game).

Sound Design for Music Video by Nachtmahr

Daniel Pharos — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:03:46 +0000

Thomas Rainer (of L’Ame Immortelle fame) asked us to provide sound design for the music video of his band “Nachtmahr”. The provocative, military-styled, girls-in-uniform loving band has invaded dance floors and festivals around the world, so I am quite proud to post the video here. I did the SFX, the ambient music at the beginning, ADR and foley.

Guest lecture at SAE

Daniel Pharos — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:15:22 +0000

Yesterday I had the honour to speak at the SAE Institute in Munich about (guess!) Game Music. We talked about what Game Music is and can be and about the problems actually occuring all the time between composers and game developers. We ended with a 2 hours Q&A part, which was lucky for me filled to the end with questions and me ranting.

Thanks to all present, and for the invitation. It’s a lot of fun, and I at least think I get better and better with those lectures, looking forward to more of them…

Out: Dungeons – The Dark Lord

Daniel Pharos — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:08:33 +0000

Another game with our music and our sounds is out: “Dungeons – The Dark Lord”, by Realmforge/Kalypso, a standalone add-on to #1 charts hit “Dungeons”.

Check out the trailer with Dominik’s music (not the Kalypso logo though):

Out: Sengoku (Paradox Interactive)

Daniel Pharos — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:20:23 +0000

Sengoku by our friends of Paradox in Sweden is out! We provided 22 songs for this massive feudal Japanese Strategy RPG. Check out this release trailer with one of Dominik’s tracks: