Game Audio Network Guild

Hey everyone! It's been a busy busy week for me - I've been finishing up the soundtrack to the independent game "The Spirit Engine 2," by Mark Pay. (Check it out at www.thespiritengine.com). I've been working on this project for over four and a half years! (Excuse any following spelling or gramatically errors, I'm flying to NYC in a few hours to celebrate with my girlfriend and have a nice dinner with some great champagne that I've been saving)

 I'm just writing to let everyone know that I just FINALLY finished and uploaded my standalone soundtrack CDs, and I wanted to share a bit of my experience.

 The soundtrack itself is massive - over 3 hours of music spanning 101 tracks.  I bet that you're probably thinking, well, it can't have been very GOOD music to be that long.  Perhaps thats the case, but I like to think otherwise (obviously).  I put together the CDs in a few weeks time - it turns out that mastering audio CDs is much different than mastering the actual game music, so I really had to do production on everything twice!  Now, I'm certainly no guru at this... I am but a student, but I tried my best and put my whole heart into it, and I think it shows.

Back in April I advertised a "Cancer Donation" drive to the indie-scene at Tigsource.com and in other places.  The idea was that anyone who donated $5 would receive the full soundtrack to TSE2 for free (as a digital download).  Turned out pretty well, I think, because we raised over $825.  That may seem small to some of your pros (;D), but for a small community it was astonishing!

 Anyway, with the CDs done and everything ready to go I thought the last thing to do would be to put a post up here.

For those curious, you can check out the albums (there is a full album and a shorter "best of" album) here:

www.jwmusic.org