So all my previous plans are (again) postponed but its OK! I just started working on the sound design for a new character class set for the game : TORCHLIGHT .

Will Harris (3D video game artist) and an animator friend of his are working on the in game content currently. I’ll be helping out with the sound design and hopefully with some ambient music..

More info about the development can be found here.

Decimator:

It’s a robot. Steampunk Robot. Everything about it is hot and steamy.. and BIG!. Born in the midst of 18th century industrial revolution.  Old but strong. A bit rusty but still sturdy…  well at least that’s  how I imagine it… we’ll see.

here is the first “run cycle” try out. have a listen.

Q: Where have I been?
A: Somewhere almost all the graduates end up in I suppose. In a post- graduation black-hole, as we call it. =)

So, what’s been going on is, “I graduated”… =) Mad Props! right?  Hurray!!! YeAH!  OR? well…… to be honest the reality kicked in WAY too soon.  No holiday, no proper celebaration.. No getting drunk and losing it.  Not that I was expecting a total shift in my reality, but maybe a temporary one would have been cool ;) I kinda needed it after an overwhelmingly “serious” year. With no obvious difference to tell one from another, I couldn’t complete the transition properly, I guess. Not yet at least.

Anywhooo, all the boring, troublesome, distasteful “adulthood” details, such as trying to find a job etc  aside(living in a foreign country does make a huge difference unfortunately =P), I could say that all I have been doing, in full focus, was working on the Go for IT! Project  that I have started during my studies.  An Urban Game Project in Rotterdam South (NL) initiated by the organization called The Patchingzone. It’s a cool, interesting, challenging yet very very “human-cpu hungry” project. =P  Especially in the last couple of months, production process sped up quite a lot and it is great to see things actually happening. But since there are a lot of deadlines ahead of us now, the current schedule/work load/timeline leaves very little headroom for other stuff. All the while, I’ve been collecting my ideas , tagging them “to be realized” for upcoming “one day”, some day… they are piling up =) call it good news or bad news. Depends on one’s perspective I guess. To me it is good news cos I feel like as soon as we make it to our deadline, and lunch the Game we have been developing, things will slow down, the tension will be gone, a bit of a relief a bit of a cool-down…. a bit I hope..  And I will be able to focus on my personal projects as well. I hope. There is always a risk in postponing things though, I know… tricky.

Anyways, I should write about the Go for IT! Project in details at some point as well. For some reason I haven’t published anything about it although most of my life in Rotterdam has been evolving around it for about 10 months now =D. But  I guess I’m gonna leave it for another time. No, not to procrastinate, but to go to sleep =D It is quite late.. So forgive me for my long break and accept this little post as an intro of a new era (wow that’s a big word eheh) : “life outside of the school” (well yea that’s literally it; after 25 years of continuous education, crazy stuff…)

Check the website: Go for IT! =) it might help.. for now.