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Tyrian fan sites and Open Tyrian

Ladies and Gentlemen, Tyrian was my first project. It involved many talented people, primarily my old friend Jason Emery. 

But in addition along the way Epic was instrumental in making it what it was. Robert Allen, our producer, found Daniel Cook, the most incredible 2D artist I've known to this day, Bruce Hsu, another great 2D artist, and I found the likes of the great Arturo Sinclair, who wanted to turn the game into much greater a production than it was meant to be.

Also, Robert dug up a fantastic bit of "super" AdLib compatible audio code called "Loudness" which enabled just about any PC at the time to sound like a Sega Genesis on steroids. At the time, that was a big deal.

All of this wouldn't matter now and might have been forgotten if it wasn't for the people responsible for these sites:

http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/

http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/

Mindless2112 and whoever runs the other site, my profound thanks.

Essentially it blows my mind to know that without any effort except giving away the source code (and possibly some question answering) on Jason's part, the game has been ported to things like the FRICKIN' AMIGA and the PSP and DS. The FRICKIN WII, for crying out loud! This game was released almost FIFTEEN years ago. Thanks really don't cut it when you have people this enthused with the game after all these years.

Rock on, fellas. Keep it alive!

Under construction

Hello all!

I'm currently looking at the world of widgets, and trying to get one that will play all the original MODs I wrote along with all the game music I've written. I think that'd please a few people on here. It won't be downloadable or purchaseable for copyright reasons, but at least you'll be able to listen to it. Besides, folks on here already know how to get it anyway. :)

But an additional plus is the ability to listen to my video game music greatest hits collection. It's only about 4gb, but I believe that I should be able to narrow it down and do some sort of more regular weekly posting without having to do a full blog post.

Yes, yes, album is coming along too, and I need to get on the ball with that as well as the badass remix of a Deus Ex tune that Jimmy penned up. Hell, it's almost perfect as is but I'd be a fool not to get in there and mess around. What an inspiring remix.

Thanks for your patience. The current system I have on here only takes posts visible on the main page, which won't work too well.