After nearly two years of my own involvement (and consequently some silence), I'm happy to say I can now share details of one of my projects.

BROK: The InvestiGator is a unique hybrid of a video game: classic Sierra-style adventure meets Mortal-Kombat-esque beat-em-up. Made by CowCatGames, you play as a crocodilian detective in an animated world, with cyberpunk themes throughout as you begin to uncover a very deep story.

Musically, in light of the nostalgic factor to the gameplay, I was given creative license to use lots of orchestra mockups and other dated synthesizer sounds that defined the computer games of the 90s and early 2000s, which was definitely fun for me to do. I've been making music for nearly two years for this project, and I'm happy to see it begin to come to fruition!

The prologue/demo is now available for trying out on Steam, and an additional Kickstarter will be published in the next few days to help with finishing up the full game.

Hope everyone enjoys this project and stay tuned for more updates!

First of all, I realize it's been a bit slow on my end, as I wrote on my Patreon page, and I apologize for that.

There are several bits of good news, however. The first is that there's been a major update for the better regarding Escola da Insanidade/School of Insanity and my involvement with it. Unfortunately, I cannot give specifics at this time, but know that things might finally start to pay off in that regard.

The second is that, in light of the prior news, I've finally gotten around to making a filler album consisting mostly of compilation submissions. It will be available for download a week from now, but the preorder is available here: https://python-blue.bandcamp.com/album/filled

Third news, and the most recent: this morning saw me go on a remastering spree of pieces both ancient and unreleased at this time, and in the process, I found my music files for an old game mod that, unfortunately, seems to have since been abandoned by the creator, who also seems to have disappeared from the net. That in mind, as well as it being about five years since I was brought onto the project, I guess I'll give the soundtrack fans of mine an extra treat and release those pieces to the public within the next month. While there will be a small price price tag attached, modders and game developers will also be free to use many of the pieces.

Unfortunately, that's most of the news I have at the moment. If anyone wants updates of my music as soon as possible, they're more than welcome to pledge to or follow my Patreon page, linked earlier, and I also hope to resume use of SoundCloud. In the meantime, all the best, everyone!

Yesterday afternoon, this game was officially released as an early access game on Steam, possibly confirming the suspicions that my work is not finished for the game quite yet.

Regardless, check out the game for yourself here. Mac and Linux users, you can buy and play this game as well.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/296010

Personally, I just finished glancing at some of the reviews so far for the game. Not only were there no overall-negative reviews at this time, at least one of them has acknowledged my contributions to the game, quoted below:

"The heavy mechanical beats and ambient dronings of the background music do an excellent job of keeping you engaged in the atmosphere of the cybernetic and neon-tinted highways around you." - CueZero, August 2014

Overall, I'm feeling very excited over the reception so far!

This Friday, NeonXSZ, a game I composed music for and also beta tested the Mac builds of, will be officially available on Steam!

Those of you who missed the trailer for the game, here it is on YouTube.

Unfortunately, this also means that the game will finally be full price at that time at $20, so if you use Desura over Steam, be sure to buy it now while it's still discounted!

My work is not done for this project, however: evidently, if this becomes successful, it will have new updates and additions, much like Minecraft, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, its Steam page is here.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/296010/

Well, sadly, one reason for my hiatus in music was yet more personal issues, which, while they are not worth delving into, did convince me to change some apsects of my lifestyle.

The good news, however, is that this also spawned some ideas for a new album, which I began work on this morning. Its working title is "A Dark Future", meant to express a dystopia that, in some ways, could arguably come true in the future, essentially shelving this particular project along the likes of Perturbator and Carpenter Brut.

Additional good news, this time, relating to one of my game projects: NeonXSZ has been greenlit for Steam! Here is its website, those of you who are not up to speed with it. Intravenous Software, sadly, still does not anticipate an official release for a few more months, but we will both keep everyone updated on a specific date. I also hope to stream my testing the Mac build of the game, for anyone interested in Livestreams. Will post the link in a separate blog post, later, but expect the stream to be online on Saturday, April 26th, at noon EST.

Well, been going through lots of personal issues, which are not worth delving into, up until recently; hence, the relative lack of music making. Good news is that I've resumed, one example being a new original track that I'm going as far as to give away for free.

Finally got around to this like I promised. That being said, here is an overview of a JV/XP/XV expansion card that was a collaboration between Roland and Spectrasonics, which, perhaps not coincidentally, was founded by former Roland sound designer Eric Persing.

The hiatus was for various reasons, among them personal issues. This has resulted in a decision to all but abandon Tumblr, for reasons not worth delving into.

Soundtrack work has also been slow due to offline matters. However, as of a few days ago, I have become involved with the Amnesia custom story community again. For the sake of surprises for any gamers who read this, I will just say that I'll be contributing a few pieces to a custom story by the creator of the successful predecessor The Great Work. Rest assured, this time around, I will not register the pieces with YouTube's Content ID system; I've learned that lesson.

I also hope to do another synthesizer review in the near future. I just need to find the time to actually write it up.

Cyborg will still come out as scheduled, and can now be previewed on the music page of this website as well.

Thank you for your patience.

The game is now on Desura!

Nothing further for now.

Enjoy!