Knights Of Soundtrack

“Die Letzte Grenze” on German TV tomorrow

Daniel Pharos — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:17:29 +0000

The wonderful short movie “Die Letzte Grenze”, for which I have done sound design together with Simon Osterhold, has its TV premier tomorrow from 22:45 on German TV (channel BR) , together with 3 other short movies. Talented young director Daniel Butterworth, whom I know from one of my first steps into the game audio world (Broken Sword 2.5), will also be interviewed. Check it out if you have access to it. – Daniel

Computerspielpreis: 3 awards for games we worked on

Daniel Pharos — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:29:29 +0000

( Sorry for the long silence, we were knee-deep in deadlines. We will post more news in the next days! )

Starting with the Deutscher Computerspielpreis (~German Video Game Awards), where “we” were quite lucky: In each of the 3 categories, in which games we helped with were nominated, one of those very games has won!

Word Wonders – The Tower of Babel: Best Mobile Game 2013

Forge of Empires: Best Browser Game 2013
(jury statement: “…pleasant background music…”)

GroundPlay: Best Student Concept 2013
(jury statement: “…exceptional soundtrack…”)

Congrats to them, thanks for letting us help a bit, but also to the other winners and nominees, especially “Skylancer – Battle for Horizon”, a game we also provided audio for and that was nominated for Best Browswer Game.

So, we all learned a valuable lesson: Work with us, and you win awards.

Best Soundtrack 2012 Award by AdventureCorner

Daniel Pharos — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:40:28 +0000

AdventureCorner , a leading adventure game site, polled their audience to vote for the Best Games of 2012. The best soundtrack award went to your beloved Knights of Soundtrack for our soundtrack to The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav. It was a quiet, a different soundtrack, dark fairy tale style with live harp, live violin and female vocals… We really enjoyed working on that lovely game’s soundtrack…

New DARK trailer

Daniel Pharos — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:15:33 +0000

Latest trailer for DARK, the vampire stealth game on which Dominik and I have been working for 10 months now… Trailer shows the non-final graphics and bits of our music, including my song “Dark Inside”, featuring the wonderfully talented Sonja Kraushofer (of L’Âme Immortelle, Persephone and Coma Divine fame). Coming soon to Xbox 360 and PC!

Doomsday!

Daniel Pharos — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:26:16 +0000

Today’s the day! For last minute preparations, we recommend “Doomsday” by Wynto/astragon, with our music and sound effects… It’s an apocalypse tycoon, making fun of yet another doomsday scare, and one of these rare instances when my job’s and my band’s interests overlap…

Word Wonders is out for iOS & PC

Daniel Pharos — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:20:10 +0000

Word Wonders by our friends at Chimera / RCP / Dreamfab is now out for iOS devices and PC (with our music and sounds): It’s a combat word puzzle game in an Arabian Nights setting. We worked on a prototype for that one 2 years ago, too, good to see it finally come to fruition – and it’s fun! Check it out:

http://www.chimera-entertainment.de/en/products/word-wonders

12 nominations for games we worked on at Deutscher Entwicklerpreis

Daniel Pharos — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:06:57 +0000

The biggest industry award in Germany – Deutscher Entwicklerpreis (German Developer Awards) – announced their nominations, 12 of them go to games we were involved with, including indirectly Best Sound for Risen 2, for which Dominik and Daniel were asked by Dynamedion to provide a few songs. The other games are: Wimmelburg, The Dark Eye – Chains of Satinav, Forge of Empires, Skylancer and Happy Hills. We wish all our partners and friends best of luck, see you there on the 12th of December in Düsseldorf.

http://deutscher-entwicklerpreis.de/

Interview in “Musikmarkt” magazine

Daniel Pharos — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:23:56 +0000

We were interviewed for “Musikmarkt” for their game music special. “Musikmarkt” is a big and serious German music magazine, among other things home of the official media control charts. Check out the August issue for the 4 pages interview, in which we also battle it out with the collecting society GEMA.

That’s tiny us, on the upper right.

The German interview is also readable online, but sadly not for free.

Origamigore available for Iphone

Daniel Pharos — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:39:45 +0000

Origamigore is now available on the app store. We provided sound effects and voices for this crazy Japanese game show style madness by the Skunk Brothers.. Check out the trailer below… Big thanks to Rieke Werner and Zeis for their brilliant voice performances…

Warcraft III Campaign “Blackrock and Roll”

Daniel Pharos — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:29:01 +0000

Once again I participated as a voice actor in a project by Eredalis. After 2 award-winning free campaigns for Starcraft – Broodwar (with a big story, full synchronisation and additional music), I was again asked to voice a role in his (German) campaign for Warcraft III. The first part is up now.