• Top Downloaded - Toy Stunt Bike - Dev & Pub Raoghard

             Trials HD style game, with some good audio features. We have the bike revs which have been done nicely and work really well. 

             Extra effort seems to have gone into the BGM. Complete songs have been created for your pleasure with a wide range of genres.

• Kotaku's Favourite - Aban Hawkins & the 1000 Spikes.

             This started out so promising, some great 8bit style tunes going on bringing back some great memories of those simpler days, 

             great cursor noise with the standard slight variation of moving left and right (take note :) Then came the level BGM...after dying for

             the 9th time....the music gets repeatitive....to say the least. Althogh a redeeming feature is an ingame audio volume adjuster

             using the bumper buttons.

I have found a nice little website that allows you to create some little 8bit sounding effects. http://www.bfxr.net/

Really quite simple to use. Some pre-made sounds that you can alter as you wish. You can also use the mixer to layer sounds.  So have a play around and when you have created a sound you like just hit the Export Wav and it'll save as an audio file for you to use as you wish. Get making them chip tunes!!!

HALL OF FAME

I have been racking my brain as to what criteria needs to be met for a game to be classed in this new (and possibly amazing) category....

Well I have decided for now to keep it in the Xbox family and also the live marketplace.....I have played this game just to listen to the music and its majestic soundtrack, to play a game just to listen to the music (obviously the game play and visuals are in a class of their own)....and the game is ............I know the suspence is killing me to.....

BRAID....(cheers and applause ripple from the centre of our hearts)

(Text coming tomorrow :)

Giving another shout out to the Radio 4 podcast  "Bleep Bleep Bloop"  Where Paul Bennun explores the world of music composed for video games. Check it out if you haven't already done so. Worth your time. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00yj887/Bleep_Bleep_Bloop_Music_and_Video_Games

On a final note don't forget to let people test your game. Always a great way to quickly identify if your game is any good.

Back soon with more audio delights. Get in touch with any questions or advice on all things audio related, will do my best as always to help.

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