My contribution is a badly animated tuba player (me) on a beach, and some tuba playing. (I’ll update the Other Games page eventually.)

Another released game that I’ve done a little work on is 8 Squares in the Garden. I’ve made the soundtrack for this game, based on Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass. The game doesn’t have a web page for me to link to, so I’ll point you to a forum thread at Adventure Developers instead. (The thread is labeled “open beta…”, but you’ll find the download for the finished game there too.) I’m generally happy about how the music turned out - I wrote it as a wind quartet - but there are some things I’d do differently if I get asked to write music for the sequel. (I hope the planned sequel will get made. “Ad7venture” is currently working on another project.)

Having said that, I have been tagged in one of those blog things, and decided to play along this time. These kinds of things can be fun sometimes. If you find it boring, please stop reading now and move on to something else. So here’s some answers to some questions:

5 Things Found In Your Bag

The bag I’ll look into is my MacBook-bag, but since I’m typing this on said computer, it’s not to be found there.

• The Double Reed, vol 30 no 4. It’s the quarterly journal of the International Double Reed Society. I’m a member.
• Some sheet music. (Ellington’s Caravan in an arragement for brass quintet by Øystein Baadsvik.)
• An Owner’s Manual for my Zendrum.
• A copy of Illustrerad Vetenskap (a popular science magazine) that I bought once on a ferry when I was bored.
• Some CDs. I may return to that topic if I make more posts under the bloggery topic in the future. Let’s just say that they’re probably not found in any top seller lists anywhere, but they’re great.

5 Favourite Things In Your Room

I’m sitting in my kitchen at the moment, so I’ll pick five things in here.

• An E-flat tuba.
• A freezer. (That’s a great invention.)
• Pasta.
• Paper.
• A music stand.

5 Things You Have Always Wanted To Do

Five things I’ve always wanted to do? That I don’t know. I don’t even know if I could think up five things that I haven’t done that I’d like to do. Most things I’d like to do are related to things I have done or am doing.

5 Things You Are Currently Into

Listing five things I’m into isn’t easy (how could I get the time to be into five things?), but here’s an attempt at some kind of list of things I’m working on. If it looks ambitious and focused, it’s only because I couldn’t think of better things to write.

• Becoming better at playing the musical instruments I play.
• Becoming better at my job.
• Becoming a better musician.
• Frasse 2.
• Becoming a better person. (That’s beyond my skill level, but I try, and pray for help.)

5 People You Want To Tag

I choose not to tag anyone. If you read this and want to tag yourself, feel free.

So, there it is. My first “bloggery” blog post. More will probably follow, but not in any sort of regular fashion.

First is the Cover Art Drive for interactive fiction run by Emily Short. I made a cover for one of my favourite games of all categories: Augmented Fourth. It got accepted by the author and is now the official cover art for the game. How cool is that!

Another game I’m currently making some graphics for is Deirdra Kiai’s new project. She’s collecting graphics in different styles that she are going to put together into a game. It may sound crazy, but I think she can pull it off so I’m halfway through making a contribution.

Both projects have deadlines of last April (more or less).

Don’t expect it to be released any time soon, though. Frasse and the Peas took me around two years to make. While I now have some experience that’ll help me make the game faster (and hopefully better), I am now busier than I was then. I will use the same engine - SLUDGE - so I don’t have to learn a new tool in order to make the game, but SLUDGE is now open source and I have started to explore the source of the engine. My plan is partly to help with the maintenance (bug-fixing and so on), but also to port it to MacOS.

(I also have plans for a third - and final? - part in the series.)

Currently, the old site lives side by side with the new, so the look of things is a bit messy, but that will change eventually.