Horse Race Game
A few months ago I was
hired by an English on-line gaming company to write music to
accompany a web-based virtual slot machine. The theme for the game
is an English fair ground (in the US I would call it an old
fashioned county fair) and if you win big, you get to play one of
several mini games and have a good chance of winning even more
$.
The sounds for the wheels spinning and common low level wins have to be very short, but these grander and rarer wins can actually have tunes. The developers asked me to base my sounds on the band organ or calliope. I had great fun writing and producing the music for both midi sequenced synth and live instruments including saxophone and of course... Anglo concertina.
Here is an mp3 of my tune for one of these mini games, the Horse Race... Ta Da! The Anglo concertina was especially useful in articulating the fast notes in the introduction. Gamers have to spend lots of time and money and really win big to hear all of this when playing the actual game but just click on the button above and you can hear it for free as often as you like.
The sounds for the wheels spinning and common low level wins have to be very short, but these grander and rarer wins can actually have tunes. The developers asked me to base my sounds on the band organ or calliope. I had great fun writing and producing the music for both midi sequenced synth and live instruments including saxophone and of course... Anglo concertina.
Here is an mp3 of my tune for one of these mini games, the Horse Race... Ta Da! The Anglo concertina was especially useful in articulating the fast notes in the introduction. Gamers have to spend lots of time and money and really win big to hear all of this when playing the actual game but just click on the button above and you can hear it for free as often as you like.
