I get a lot of people asking me what tools I used to make the FTL soundtrack. I started answering them individually, but I think a blog post would be more efficient and useful to everyone. So here goes! I have a Macbook Pro that’s the center of my setup. I record everything into Cubase, my DAW of choice. There are many quality DAWs out there. I hear Reason and FL Studio are good too. I originally purchased Cubase because ten years ago, when I knew nothing about […]

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I’m a huge fan of any work of fiction that involves exploring a giant, dark, ancient, empty, creepy ship or vessel of some kind. I have a mind to actually write a short story or novella involving such. These are some of my favorites in this sub-genre that exists in my head: The classic sci-fi horror film Alien Sphere by Michael Crichton The videogame Dead Space The not-amazing-but-pushed-all-the-right-buttons movie Pandorum Epic, mid-budget, occasionally goofy sci-fi horror movie Event Horizon Other, […]

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Not long after I decided to really dive into making music as a lifetime project, and in between learning music theory and piano, I somehow managed to start and finish Love Story (now on Chromatic T-Rex) in one week. I was so impressed with the quality of something I was able to make in so little time that I turned it into a challenge: could I keep making a good track every week? So I gave this idea the fairly […]

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on Erin Robinson’s Gravity Ghost blog. And you can read it here. It was more fun to write than I expected.

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You may have noticed the new portrait for my header image. That was made by the awesome Bryan Ma. The banner-style header cuts out quite a bit, so I’m going to put the entire image here. If you’ve been playing games for a particularly long time, you might notice the portrait has been done in the style of Lucasarts’ classic The Dig.

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And you can read it here. I wrote this all in one sitting the night before GDC started, but it actually came out pretty well.

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Just in time for GDC, Erin Robinson has finally made Gravity Ghost public. Gravity Ghost is a game about a ghost girl who hurls herself through space and brings life to various small planets. You can check out some art and Erin’s writeup at the official site here. I’ve already written quite a bit of music for the game, and hopefully we’ll be able to share a bit of it soon. Exciting!

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Holy Jumpin Mother O God in a Sidecar with Chocolate Jimmies and a Lobster Bib!  The FTL Kickstarter is well past $50,000!  This is ridiculous. Seriously guys. You are all nuts. Anyway, as a special thank-you to everyone who pledged, we’re giving away a free music track from the game. I just polished it up last night and I think it sounds pretty good. If you’ve pledged, all you need to do is go here. Then you can download from […]

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Wow! Did you see this? Funding has already tripled our original goal, and it’s only been like a day or so.  Thanks to everyone who pledged! This goes directly to making more awesome music for the game.

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