Imphenzia

Not long ago I released a new and unconventional Imphenzia track named "Time Travel" - check out the video of the track: This track rocketed to the #1 chart at soundclick.com and it also received great feedback on facebook. It is, however, a very different style compared to most other Imphenzia tracks released in the past. The track, the feedback, and some recent expansion pack purchases for Nexus got me inspired to create more music. Merry Christmas everyone =)

I've decided to publish the scripts that I use to watermark and encode music audio files into MP3 and OGG files with meta tags. I hope this will help someone out there who needs to frequently watermark and/or encode audio files into WAV, MP3 and OGG files at different bit rates. Maybe the simplest way to start off is to demonstrate how the scripts work with this video: (Watch in HD at YouTube for better readability) Click HERE TO DOWNLOAD the zip file containing the scripts. Create_watermark.vbs Explained This is a VBScript that will loop through a directory full of WAV audio files and mix them with watermark audio files. The script uses the free application Sound eXchange (SoX) to achieve this. The script is also designed to take the duration of the audio file to be watermarked and apply a watermark with a suitable frequency. Shorter audio files will be watermarked frequently and longer audio files will have less frequent watermarks to make it less annoying. You can customize th...

So far this week I have spent most of my hours awake either in traffic on my way to or back from work, or in work. The few hours I've had to spare at home I've put on composing exclusive music for the three game developers that have contacted me. I've also uploaded some more stuff to  the Unity Asset Store and played some Modern Warfare 2. Today I reactivated my Eve Online account (free for 5 days) and the game is truly looking awesome but I simply won't have time to play it unfortunately.

First week of "normal" work following my paternity leave is now in the past and I am enjoying a very welcome weekend. Motocross practice at Uringe Today I spent a few hours at Uringe, a great sand track south of Stockholm, where I tried to improve my motocross skills. It went fairly well with only one minor crash but plenty of fun. Bike collected some sand as you can see in the picture below - quite easy to clean with the pressure washer though.... Making Exlusive Music for Three Games I've also recently had requests to create exclusive music for three different games. Two games for the mobile platform (Android + iPhone) and one game is aimed at computers and consoles. Quite exciting because the music needed is of very different genres and it's a lot of fun to let the creativity take over and see where it leads. Astrofighter.Net As for Astrofighter.Net I've managed to make slight progress here as well. I've imported the low poly ship versions into Unity and I...

Today was my first day back in my "normal" job as an IT Security Consultant and I'm coming back from a 7 month long paternity leave. It is with mixed emotions that I return because I've really enjoyed spending the time with my family and it has also enabled me to focus a lot on Imphenzia Music/Soundtrack/Games. But then again, you have to earn a living... Anyway, I've finished creating the 8 types of spaceships to be featured in the game ranging from a light scout to a heavily armored and well equiped beast. The 7 weapon types I'm considering for the game is Blaster, Cannon (Gatling Gun), Plasma Gun, Rail Gun, Laser, Missile Launcher, and Mortar. Here is a preview video:

Today I modeled the 8th spaceship and all the weapons. I created a low poly and a high poly version of each weapon so I can render "Normal" maps (bump maps) making the weapons appear to have a lot more polygons than they really do. I'll be doing the same for the spaceships as well. Of course, the ships won't look like this in the game. These are just colored wireframe renders of all the prototype ships in low detail. Top down view as they will be seen in the game (click for high res picture) Here is a perspective view of the spaceships as well: Finally, here is a detailed look at the weapons I created today: Texturemapping these objects will take a lot longer than it took to model them. Each ship only took about 15-20 minutes each and the weapons took about the same amount of time. I can imagine it will take me a few hours to make the texture maps for each object though, ugh. 2:31am - I'm off.

Low Polygon Spaceships for Astrofighter.Net Today I took a break from programming and decided to make some low polygon spaceships for the game. I don't have a lot of modelling experience but it's a lot of fun to let the imagination take over.  Here are the 7 ship models I've come up with so far: When I create these models, I just start with a normal box, about 4x2x1 meters. Then I just extrude, extrude, extrude the faces in different directions to create the wings, the engines, the cockpit, and so forth. In addition to extruding I also move the vertices to create angles, but that's pretty much it. I use the "Symmetry" modifier in 3DS Max so I only have to model one side of the ship. These models are very primitive, as you see, but for my top down view I think they will be quite sufficient. They will need texture mapping, normal mapping, and specular mapping as well which should make them quite decent. I did 5 of these models tonight, the other 2 I created prev...