ZombieSmash! - Chris Huelsbeck produces music and sfx

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ZombieSmash! - Chris Huelsbeck produces music and sfx

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Started 7 months ago by zombie
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zombie
Member

Hi,

I am proud to announce that Chris Huelsbeck produces the msuic and sfx for our upcoming iPhone game ZombieSmash! Seems like I am not the only fan of him as his music was used by Riq for its Cocos2D video on YouTube :)

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For all who do not know Huelsbeck (shame on you), he wrote the music for games like Turrican, R-Type, Great Giana Sister, Apydia,... If you do not know these, too: Shame on you again :) Or you are just too young.

About our game: ZombieSmash! is a Castle Defend game, but it will be much different to all other games of this style. Actually we started the game as a port of Defend your Castle, but we changed the gameplay soon, as we thought it does not really fit to the iPhone. Ok stickwars showed that it does fit (and sells :)).

Here is some concept art:

Find more infos on our Blog or follow us on Twitter.

Have fun,
Zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
LongJohnnyE
Member

Glad to see you guys are putting together another great castle defense game! The reason I first made StickWars I wanted to play castle defense on my iphone, and at that point there wasn't any available. I don't really like Knights Onrush, and there is no way that I can enjoy playing my game anymore. I can't wait to try it out!

Posted 7 months ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

want!

Will the music be 8bit style?

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

The musik will sound a bit like his old tracks, but overall is more modern. Don't be afraid, it is as great as a Huelsbeck sound has to be :)

zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

"Don't be afraid"

I *like* 8-bit

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Do not be afraid that it will be not as good as his old work, even when it is not 8-bit. Thats what I wanted to say.

Who does not love 8-bit :)

Zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
marcotronic
Member

Great!!! Chris Huelsbeck! How came he produces music for you? Did you just give him a call "Chris, do you wanna write a song for our game?" I´m really curious about that game. Please keep us informed! ;o)

Marco

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Chris was our idol when we were young and playing Amiga games. We really wanted to work with him. So we did everything to convince him ;) We are like him German. Maybe that helped.

zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
marcotronic
Member

Cool! :o) I still know him from his good old C64 music. (I´m German, too, by the way)

Marco

Posted 7 months ago #
riq
Key Master

yes, I love the Giana Sister music. One of my favorite C64 songs.

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Here are some ingame screenshots. Find more details about key features of ZombieSmash! on our Blog http://zombiesmash.gamedrs.com

zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
PhilM
Member

Graphics look awesome! I'll be buying it to check those and the music regardless. Have you submitted it for approval yet? or just teasing us :-/

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Just teasing, sorry :)

We plan a release in around 8-10 weeks. So stay tuned.

zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

<whine>8-10 weeks!!! But I want it noooooooowww</whine>

Posted 7 months ago #
marcotronic
Member

Great graphics! I´m really looking forward that game :o))

Marco

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

@Codemattic

Me, too :)

When we started this project a prototype was finsihed in 2 weeks including the time to make us confortable with objective c and cocos2d.

We thought: Ok lets replace some gfx, add gameplay and this should be done in another 2-3 weeks :) This was 5 month ago...
But I am sure I am not the only one who underestimates a project. And I know this will happen the next time again ;)

I will ask here for some beta testers in some weeks.

- zombie

Posted 7 months ago #
friken
Member

zombie,

I know how you feel about time-line estimates. I've been in the software industry for 20 years and I can't think of a single project that was ever as simple as it seemed during prototyping. And I too will very likely underestimate every future project in some regard. Early on I would apply the 2x multiplier... then the 4x... I think I'm at an 10x now ;)

Posted 7 months ago #
PhilM
Member

lol. 10x!!! That might be a bit much, but agree on the 2-4x. Theres always something unexpected that seems crops up round the corner ; )

Posted 7 months ago #
jd
Member

My orginal target was early july. Now's it's early september. I could easily drag it out another 3+ months because I keep adding stuff as well as rewriting some parts. I'll beta test Zombie. I was going to do the same - ask people on here if they want to beta test.

Posted 7 months ago #
ddeaco
Member

Looks great, cant wait to try it out. how many people are on your team?

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Development is 4 people..

Posted 7 months ago #
jptsetung
Member

It looks freaking awesome. Can you make us a youtube preview with the music that has been written for the game ?

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

Ok. Here you go...

http://zombiesmash.gamedrs.com/?p=258

Posted 7 months ago #
jptsetung
Member

Wow, you were right, the music is superb, it fits perfectly the game. Is it exclusive to your game ? Is it expensive to work with a professional composer ? The trailer is also awesome (what did you use to render the texts in the video ?).

Posted 7 months ago #
ob1
Member

Turrican and Giana sisters are still some of my favorite games.

By the way, to avoid any confusion, the music track in the video is by Machinae Supremacy:

http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/

Posted 7 months ago #
zombie
Member

:) You mean the soundtrack of the Cocos2d Video. Thats true. I knew it is a remix, but not who made it.

The soundtack in our tease is produced by Huelsbeck :)

Posted 7 months ago #
mromanuk
Member

Did you publish your game?

Posted 6 months ago #
zombie
Member

No, still working on it. We just reduced our efforts to promote it, as it was consuming too much time.

Its hard to get something done when checking your blog stats every minute :)

-zombie

Posted 6 months ago #
zombie
Member

Hi,

here is a new video showing our SplatterEngine.
Let me know what you think.

- zombie

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Posted 4 months ago #
natanavra
Member

Very interesting Splatter engine, I like!!
You're using chipmunk? Splatter isn't particles, is it some sort of chipmunk objects?
ZombieSmash! looks amazing, and looks to me it has a lot of features... simply amazing!

~ Natanavra.

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