Michael Taylor: Audio Design & Composition

November 2011 Update

Once again, its been a busy couple of months for me! I’ve been ultra busy working with Cwerki Studios on the UDK based project ‘Min: A Space Adventure’, for which we released the above trailer a couple of weeks ago. We are fundraising to try and finish the production with as high quality as we can, so please share the link and help us out.

I’ve also been finishing up work on my ‘Play It Forward’ charity album track; There should be more news on this soon, but having heard some of the other composer’s demos, I can tell its going to be something special!

And finally, last week Just Add Water submitted Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD to Sony, and should be hitting PS3s around the world soon. If you need a reminder on why this is cool, check out my Audio Dev Diary on Just Add Water’s website, and this interview I did with Nerdvice

In the meantime, a Dynamic Theme for the PS3 I edited sounds for is due imminently on PSN. A silent clip of the theme in action can be seen here

Cwerki Presents… ‘Min: A Space Adventure’!

Cwerki Studios are proud to unveil the project they have been working so hard on for the last few months…. Min: A Space Adventure!

As usual, I have been providing music and sound effects for the project, as well as recruiting voice contributors and our amazing voiceover artist, Lu Caplin (AKA Soundmouse )

We are currently holding an IndieGoGo fundraising project to help us complete the game with the style and flair it deserves. if you feel like dropping some coins into our piggy bank, click the widget below!

We need your voice!

With the reveal of Cwerki’s website yesterday, and our progress on the game, I felt that now would be an excellent time to ask you, dear internet, to contribute to our game!

We need voices. Lots of voices. If you have a voice, we want to hear it and put it in our game! 

All you will need is a means of recording your voice, and transmitting it via the intertubes. It’s that simple!

While I can’t discuss too much detail right now, drop me a message at mike@cwerki.com to register your interest and I’ll be in touch in the next week or two with the specifics. 

Introducing… Cwerki!

Cwerki is a brand new indie studio formed by Daniel Haddad and myself. I worked with Daniel on the Microsoft Imagine Cup finalist project: ‘Tale Of A Tree Wisp’, and for the last few weeks have been working hard on a brand new game using the Unreal Development Kit! This amazing pic is some concept art from the game.

Cwerki’s website has gone live, have a look, and keep checking back for more news! Check it out here!

Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD Trailer!

EDIT: The video wasn’t playing to well with Tumblr, so here is a link to it instead: YouTube

Check out this new trailer for Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD!

My work with Oddworld is now complete and the game should be hitting PSN in the next couple of months!

Gem Twyx Out now for iOS!

BovioSoft’s latest iOS puzzler Gem Twyx is out now for iOS Devices and the Mac App Store! I wrote the game’s soundtrack, as well as designing all the audio effects.

EDIT: A gameplay trailer is available here: YouTube

Gem Twyx on iTunes

My favourite track from the game, ‘Aquamarine’, is embedded below for you to enjoy:

Aquamarine - Electronic / Ambient by Stomp224

www.stomp224.co.uk v2.0!

Welcome to the new version of my website!  My previous iWeb site was set up in a matter of hours, and was always meant to be a temporary solution, so this has been almost 2 years coming!

I hope you like the new layout - Im also working on new showreel content to accompany the new site!

August 2011 Update

This months big news is that I’ve had the pleasure of getting to convert the music system of ‘Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee HD’ for the upcoming rerelease on PS3 and Playstation Vita! Working with the original DirectMusic Producer files to reproduce them for these formats has been a very rewarding, but challenging task!

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