Travis Conrad

Games that create music hold a special place in my heart, as do the game designers that make them.
Try putting a bunch of circles within a circle, like ripples on a puddle. It makes a neat backbone.

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate

There’s this downloadable game for Xbox 360 called Chime, I wants it so bad.
#whythehelldidibuyawii
#ohrightbecausenintendorocks

ps I’m going to Toronto for a week. Yea. Awesome.

pps Also awesome: http://gopherwoodstudios.com/entanglement/?n=1 (my record is 49 but I feel like I could do better)

-Travis Conrad

So lots of exciting stuff has been happening. Between my job going awesomely, the excitement of designing the set for Western’s Big Purple Couch, having my friend’s string quartet learn my rendition of O Canada, running a D&D campaign with some friends and finally recruiting some singers to help me make some demos for Dysfunction, I’ve had next to zero down-time.

Unfortunately, the aformentioned events offer nothing to share on my blog (yet!!), but give it a month and I’ll have real updates about stuff! Big stuff! Cool stuff! Stuff that will make not hate my blog so much! Haha, so as a peace offering, I’m giving you a sneak listen of this version of my Festival Waltz that I’ve been working on. I wanted to give it a latin/blues feel, so it’s got some sax, marimba, pizzicato, bass, lil bit of steel drum. It’s different. Darcy (@darcypatrick on twitter) is trying to convince me to arrange it for string quartet, but we’ll see.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

Hope everyone’s summers are going as great as mine.

-Travis Conrad

I personally hate video game achievements. I recall playing Fable 2 and having those stupid xbox achievements pop up every now and then. There just seemed to be no point to them, and that’s probably where my distaste for them arose.

However.

I stumbled upon this game today and couldn’t help but play it to the very end (which is rare for me and flash games). It’s all about the achievements, and personally, I found it incredibly rewarding. Had a good laugh too.

Finally, warmth and sunshine have returned to London. I’m hoping we’ve entered into Canadian warm season (sometimes refered to as ’summer’), but the chances are that this is all a fluke and we’ll end up getting a blizzard on Tuesday. I swear we only have two seasons: Nuclear Winter and Sweatyourballsoff Summer, with a brief transitional period between the two usually involving high winds, slush and a lack of motivation to continue living.

ON THAT NOTE, I’m gonna grab a beer and work on my tan I thinks.

-(the hopefully not sunburnt) Travis Conrad