Over the past few months the_stalwart has been working toward the release of his newest RPG, Serial Homicide Unit. A story game in which the players follow the lives of the police chasing down a serial killer, and the final days of the soon-to-be-victims.

It's a unique game for many reasons. First of all, it is an audio rule book. That's right, you don't read it.
A recording of the rules guides you through the game as you play.

Even more interesting is that the voice belongs to me.

Further adding to the interesting, there's some title music to start off the recording, also by me.

So, since my grubby mitts are all over this game, I recommend you go and buy it. (Playtesters should already have an e-copy. If you didn't get one, let me know and I'll pass the word along to Michael.)

Michael has asked me to work up an advert for the game. Once that is ready, I'll post it here.

Another bit of narration and scoring by yours truly.

Fury of the Widowmaker

I did this one as a quickie to test out the violin in a new sample library. I originally wanted to use viola, but the sampler needed to be updated, and then I forgot I needed to upgrade my VST to DXi wrapper, and so on. The viola is happy now (as is the Tuba.)

Onward.

Theme by me.

Score by me.

Narration by me.

The Water's Fine.

Wow. This is getting ridiculous. I've never been much of an egotist, but I'm getting closer with every release.

Music output has been very good this month. The lack of new video game should help keep those numbers high. I've got a few more irons in the fire including theme music for two pod shows, short story reading, and scoring background for that reading.

As offered, here's my entry for the Underground inc. remix contest. Lain_Miner. The results of the contest should be available in a few weeks. Or later. Much later.

So the mic rearranging paid off. The voice over work I did was well received and the project head especially liked the force of my admonishing tone when telling people what NOT to do. There may be more some day which would be a nice way to break up the usual studio time.

VO is always neat, and I like to do the work when I can get it. It's a difficult racket though and like the rest of the audio industry really has more to do with network and knowing people than it does with talent. It's pretty cutthroat. Just imagine all the actors who were ever told they had a nice voice standing in line. They don't even have to be good looking.