Author: Taro Omiya
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Weekly Game Music: Co-op (Magnetis)
New week, new music. More techno, now with 90% more jazz. Here’s a music from Magnetis, Co-op. It’s composed by Romain Gauthier, the same composer as Edge. Magnetis is a Tetris-based puzzle game that involves dropping a pair of blocks to clear more blocks. Unlike Tetris, however, you clear blocks by creating a line segment where two like-colored magnet…
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Weekly Game Music: Mind Mapping (Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress)
New week, new music. Continuing the techno trend, here’s Mind Mapping by Ryutaro Nakahata (hey, another Taro). It comes from a popular Japanese arcade game, Beatmania IIDX 16: Empress. Beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS simulates a DJ deck using 5 buttons and a disk. Much like any rhythm game, the object is to hit the right button when the “notes”…
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Swarm is submitted to IGF!
I’m proud to reveal E4 Software’s latest project, Swarm: a pacifist action-platformer for the iPad and Android tablets! It’s submitted as one of the 600 entries in the Independent Games Festival (IGF). Here’s our entry! Swarm is expected to be released this December. Here’s the trailer of our work so far: [social_share/]
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Weekly Game Music: The Gensokyo The Gods Loved (Touhou: Mountain of Faith)
New week, new music. Since I’ve already posted Cave Story before, it’s only natural that I post about another game series created by one amazing Japanese man: the Touhou project by Junya Ota. Here’s a remix of The Gensokyo The Gods Lovedfrom Touhou: Mountain of Faith. It’s yet another trance from the infamous zts. Touhou: Mountain of Faith begins when Reimu Hakurei,…
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Weekly Game Music: Another Winter (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game)
New week, new music. Here’s an excellent music from an indie video game, based off of a movie, based off of a graphic nove- aw, screw it! Here’s Another Winter from the excellent chiptune band, Anamanaguchi. It’s from the downloadable game, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is lightly based off of…