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[funcroc]

http://www.clubsilic...-we-belong.html

Back to where we belong

Texas Logo After five years in California my family is returning to Texas. YEEEE-HAW!!

I start at Heatwave Interactive as Audio Director (managing and A/V department) on February 2nd.

While I have loved Obsidian, and our experience in California has been very valuable, SoCal is not a place to raise a family on one salary, unless you're insanely rich. There's a lot of other reasons I'll go into not the least of which are those damn jacked up trucks

Needless to say we're very excited and relieved to be moving and will keep you posted as to developments.

January 10, 2009

Obsidian needs a new audio director.

[Killian Kalthorne]

It is always sad to see one go. Best of luck to you, Mr. Brandon!

[Matthew Rorie]

It is always sad to see one go. Best of luck to you, Mr. Brandon!

We're all pretty sad to see him go!

[Dark_Raven]

We hate to see our Obs people leave.

[Pidesco]

Well, this sucks.

[kirottu]

We hate to see our Obs people leave.

Our?

[Tigranes]

Clearly, Feargus is not intimidating enough these days.

[Montgomery Markland]

Brandon will be missed. He is awesome.

[Humodour]

Please don't leave Alex! I will destroy you.

[Killian Kalthorne]

Please don't leave Alex! I will destroy you.

Now now, we mustn't be selfish. As much as I wish Obsidian talent stay with Obsidian it is also good to see some of that Obsidian talent spread across the industry, bringing higher quality games to us as a whole.

[Solivagant]

Who will give Alpha Protocol the Deus Ex vibe it needs now?!

[Walsingham]

I reckon they chased him out for not getting enough Monty Python references.

[Pop]

We need a replacement.

I nominate this guy

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I nominate Martin O'Donell.


... what? Totally realistic.

[kalniel]

A great shame - the audio in Storm of Zehir was the best I've ever heard from a D&D game.

There can only be one sensible replacement - Kai Rosenkranz, of Gothic fame (the soundtrack to Gothic 3 was even better than SoZ)

[Lars Westergren]

Best of luck to Alex in his future work.

Whoever becomes the audio director, I nominate he/she contract the awesome Jeff Tymoschuk (http://www.greenwiremusic.com/) to make the music for upcoming Obsidian games. He added a lot of the atmosphere to Penny Arcade Adventures. Also check out the music in the trailer for Ron Gilbert's upcoming action/adventure/rpg game DeathSpank - http://grumpygamer.com/6338868

[mkreku]

There can only be one sensible replacement - Kai Rosenkranz, of Gothic fame (the soundtrack to Gothic 3 was even better than SoZ)

Woah, I thought I was his only fan!

Anyhow, I absolutely love Kai's work, but using Gothic 3 as an example might not be the best choice. In Gothic 3 they used an orchestra for the first time and it really clashed with the original Gothic feel. The tendencies were there in Gothic 2 already (remember the dock music?), but in Gothic 3 they were in full blast. Pompous, epic and extravagant is OK for a D&D game, but for Gothic it felt.. wrong.

Apparently Kai thought so too because for Risen he's scaled back the sounds and scope of the music. Listen to this:

http://www.worldofri...download_14.htm

(it's a small .zip file of a 1 minute long medley)

I love it! It reminds me of the music from Gothic.

[bronzepoem]

为什么每次来都看到坏消息。。。

[funcroc]

Scott Lawlor is Obsidian's new audio director. (his game credit: MobyGames, IMDb)

[Tigranes]

He's pretty new in the biz then. We'll see.