Told you so
It's been nearly 2 months since I wrote my last and first blog entry and warned you that I wasn't going to update this blog very often. And I was right! Yay! :-)
Eventful months
These months have been very eventful though. America has a president-elect that the entire world is proud of. There's light at the end of the tunnel after all. Great choice, America!
In local news, I've just recently finished scoring an amazing new Adventure Game called Emerald City Confidential which takes place in the magical land of Oz, as written by L. Frank Baum put through the gritty filter of 1940s film noir. The music is orchestral, dark, magical and mysterious but hopefully contains enough of me in it, to be distinguishable from all the other orchestral, dark, magical and mysterious scores out there today. The game is developed by Wadjet Eye Games and published and funded by PlayFirst Inc., a game publishing heavy weight that focuses primarily on the enormous market for casual games. We've been working on this project for a LONG time now and it will be released in the beginning of 2009. Check out the official website: http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/PF.htm
More
I was recently signed by Casual Game Systems A/S, a Danish game developer, to score their new exciting game-product. I can't reveal anything at this point, but just assure you that it's going to be coooool! :-) Check out their website here: http://www.funkybee.com/.
Blackwell Convergence
There's been a lot of commotion around the release of Blackwell Convergence, the next installment in the Blackwell-series by Wadjet Eye Games. We've all been hard at work on Emerald City Confidential, so the release of Convergence had to be postponed a little. With ECC close to being finished, we are now excited to start working on Convergence again. The music will pretty much start where it left off in Blackwell Unbound, but I'm trying to make it even more "late night'ish" and mysterious. The orchestral/electronica/pop intro-tune is available here. If you like it, please buy the game when it's released: http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/convergence.htm.
Game Developers Conference 2009
And it's official! I'll be attending GDC in San Francisco in March. If you'd like to meet me while I'm there, please contact me!
That's it for now! :-)
Till next time!
Thomas Regin.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Welcome
Hello! And welcome!
This is my first entry.
This entry is going to look like any other first blog-entry any other fumbling first-blog-entry-writer has written. It's going to contain the mandatory lines about me not being a writer, but still have remarkably lot to say and the obligatory stuff about this blog probably not being updated too often, because I have too much to say or do and can't find the time. It's also going to contain a few words about me and what I do.
Hope you're all buckled up, cause here we go: *clearing throat*
I am not a writer. I don't even like writing grocery lists. I swear an awful lot when I speak and my written language is much too noble. Up until just a moment ago I was not the proprietor a personal blog. I did have my website, thomas-regin.com, but just like the future of this blog, it hasn't been updated in a while. At least until today where I plan to add a link to this blog. I do speak a lot though, and if I can transcribe just 2% of what I say into this blog, I'll have enough to last you a lifetime.
So who are this Thomas Regin and why craves he my time and reading-efforts?
As you may already have guessed from the title of this blog, I am *ta daaa* a composer. Composer of music - not words, mind you - and music is the language I speak the best. And apart from all the swearing it's also the language people seem to understand the best. Talk about luck. I am Danish, hailing from the Kingdom of Denmark, located just above Germany but south of Sweden and Norway. My native language is Danish - a combination of English, German, perhaps a little French, Italian and being excessively "bessoffen". People often refer to the language Danish as speaking with a hot potato in your mouth.
Yes, yes, "bessoffen, beschmoffen" but why do we need to know about you?
Let's face it - you don't - yet. I'm mostly just talking to hear my own voice, but should you still be reading, I'll talk a little about what I've done and what I hope to be doing in the future.
Early years
When I was seven, 25 years ago, my mom's aunt found an ad in the newspaper that the local boys' choir was looking for new singers. Out of 20, two of us were selected. In my nine years in the choir, I got to sing solo on national radio and, on several occasions, for the queen. When I was 8, I wanted to play the church organ and the head-organist told me to start with the recorder. So I did..
OMG, what happened?
I never did get to play the church organ! After two(!!) years of playing the recorder, I started playing piano and stuck to it. I don't regret it for a second. Those organs are huge, but as we all know, size isn't all. Even a sneaky, detuned upright can work wonders with the right performance. ;-)
Dave Gilbert and the likes of him
So I went on playing the piano. I started composing when I was eleven and surprisingly enough I recently had a chance to record my very first piece. Naïve and foolish, maybe, but here it is: my very first piece. I've kept on writing ever since. I tried, for many years (and still do!), to write mainstrem pop-songs, but was too "offstream". I wrote classical, but hey, there's no market for classical music. I had nearly given up when fellow composer, Nikolas Sideris, introduced me to game developer Dave Gilbert. Long story short: Dave hired me to write music for Blackwell Unbound. Blackwell Unbound is a game from independant game developer Wadjet Eye Games in New York, owned by Dave Gilbert. I made some pretty neat music, Dave got a big publishing deal from PlayFirst, I was invited in on the deal, I met the right people. Same old story in a new wrapping. I am so extremely grateful to be where I am today and to Dave who believed in me! :-)
.. To be continued
Anyway.. The shadows are getting long and it's getting late here in Denmark. It was fun writing my first blog-entry and not quite as frightening as I thought it would be. I'll return soon with Part II of this thrilling tale of .. eh.. me!
If anyone has anything to say, please do so. Good or bad, I look forward to reading your comments.
/Tom.
This is my first entry.
This entry is going to look like any other first blog-entry any other fumbling first-blog-entry-writer has written. It's going to contain the mandatory lines about me not being a writer, but still have remarkably lot to say and the obligatory stuff about this blog probably not being updated too often, because I have too much to say or do and can't find the time. It's also going to contain a few words about me and what I do.
Hope you're all buckled up, cause here we go: *clearing throat*
I am not a writer. I don't even like writing grocery lists. I swear an awful lot when I speak and my written language is much too noble. Up until just a moment ago I was not the proprietor a personal blog. I did have my website, thomas-regin.com, but just like the future of this blog, it hasn't been updated in a while. At least until today where I plan to add a link to this blog. I do speak a lot though, and if I can transcribe just 2% of what I say into this blog, I'll have enough to last you a lifetime.
So who are this Thomas Regin and why craves he my time and reading-efforts?
As you may already have guessed from the title of this blog, I am *ta daaa* a composer. Composer of music - not words, mind you - and music is the language I speak the best. And apart from all the swearing it's also the language people seem to understand the best. Talk about luck. I am Danish, hailing from the Kingdom of Denmark, located just above Germany but south of Sweden and Norway. My native language is Danish - a combination of English, German, perhaps a little French, Italian and being excessively "bessoffen". People often refer to the language Danish as speaking with a hot potato in your mouth.
Yes, yes, "bessoffen, beschmoffen" but why do we need to know about you?
Let's face it - you don't - yet. I'm mostly just talking to hear my own voice, but should you still be reading, I'll talk a little about what I've done and what I hope to be doing in the future.
Early years
When I was seven, 25 years ago, my mom's aunt found an ad in the newspaper that the local boys' choir was looking for new singers. Out of 20, two of us were selected. In my nine years in the choir, I got to sing solo on national radio and, on several occasions, for the queen. When I was 8, I wanted to play the church organ and the head-organist told me to start with the recorder. So I did..
OMG, what happened?
I never did get to play the church organ! After two(!!) years of playing the recorder, I started playing piano and stuck to it. I don't regret it for a second. Those organs are huge, but as we all know, size isn't all. Even a sneaky, detuned upright can work wonders with the right performance. ;-)
Dave Gilbert and the likes of him
So I went on playing the piano. I started composing when I was eleven and surprisingly enough I recently had a chance to record my very first piece. Naïve and foolish, maybe, but here it is: my very first piece. I've kept on writing ever since. I tried, for many years (and still do!), to write mainstrem pop-songs, but was too "offstream". I wrote classical, but hey, there's no market for classical music. I had nearly given up when fellow composer, Nikolas Sideris, introduced me to game developer Dave Gilbert. Long story short: Dave hired me to write music for Blackwell Unbound. Blackwell Unbound is a game from independant game developer Wadjet Eye Games in New York, owned by Dave Gilbert. I made some pretty neat music, Dave got a big publishing deal from PlayFirst, I was invited in on the deal, I met the right people. Same old story in a new wrapping. I am so extremely grateful to be where I am today and to Dave who believed in me! :-)
.. To be continued
Anyway.. The shadows are getting long and it's getting late here in Denmark. It was fun writing my first blog-entry and not quite as frightening as I thought it would be. I'll return soon with Part II of this thrilling tale of .. eh.. me!
If anyone has anything to say, please do so. Good or bad, I look forward to reading your comments.
/Tom.
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