Welcome to the first Weekly Field Report here on the Bionic Commando website.
Those who’ve been with us lurking for the last few months know our blogging schedule can be fairly, er, sporadic. As we head into the event and show season for the games industry, and get closer and closer to pushing our products out the door, we’re getting busier and busier, but the amount of things we want to share with you is only increasing. So to avoid anything falling through the cracks, we’ve started this weekly Field Report, where we can round up everything that’s been happening or just tell you about the little things that don’t deserve their own blog post.
Well, let’s get down to business:
Top Secret Trailer
In addition to the multiplayer, we also showed those lucky press member the “Evolution trailer” that will be available in Bionic Commando Rearmed while we were at the Captivate08 event in Las Vegas last week. This trailer shows off the “3D” Bionic Commando in ways you’ve never seen before, and purchasing Rearmed is one of the only ways you’re going to be able to see it. When you do finally get the chance to purchase Rearmed, please let us know what you think about this trailer.
Soundtrack & CD Cover
As you are no doubt aware, the Bionic Commando Rearmed soundtrack is now available for purchase. It looks like we've had an initial good run of things, and we wanted to say thanks to all you people who picked it up. We know one of the things that people have been asking for is an actual packaged version, since some of you just like to hold the disk in your hands – so we’ve prepared a printable cover that you can download and print off right here.
But of course, in keeping with our philosophy of giving you far too much for your dollar (or in this case, for free), we haven’t stopped there – we’ve also prepared a 12-page CD booklet, with exclusive liner notes written by Simon Viklund, the soundtrack’s composer (and incidentally, the director of Bionic Commando Rearmed), explaining all about the music's creation.
You guys are important and, even though we didn't have to do this, we wanted to show our appreciation to everyone that supported the Soundtrack. Now you can have a proper packaged version (there may be some younger readers thinking “music comes in packaged versions?!”). Please keep sending the word around because the more word of mouth we can get, the better. Even though the community site is partially about us giving you guys a fair say and the latest information, we need your help to build the community as well. Go team! ...err… Go go bionic!
Note – you may wish to use a program designed for printing CD covers and booklets to print this out with the best results. There are many such programs freely available at on local interwebs.
New
Wallpaper - Where's Spencer?
Inspired by one of our users, dancrane212 (thanks for your frequent podcast questions, Dan!), we have whipped together a new wallpaper from the latest, jaw-dropping shots of Bionic Commando we released at the Captivate event. You can download it right here.
If you download the wallpaper and look very closely, you might be able to spot a little retro Spencer in there too. In fact, there's more than one - how many can you spot? Lordy, it's just like those children books where you have a find that guy in red, whom legal complications prevent me from naming but you know who I'm talking about...
Download the wallpapers here (scroll to the bottom!)
The Podcast Hits Vegas!
At Captivate, not only did we get to ham things up with the press, but we also got to invite some of the hottest podcast hosts in the industry onto Episode 17. We've got Shane Bettenhausen, Garnett Lee, and Jeff Gerstmann along with your favorite Top Secret staff and Billy Berghammer as a special guest host! While I can't say it's the cleanest podcast you will have heard, inspired by Las Vegas it certainly is full of sex, drugs, and exploding heads...
Look for it next Tuesday!
That’s it for this week – swing our way again very soon, y’hear?
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Go go bionic!
I don't know why, but track 15 gets me pumped up every time :pThank you so much for the booklet! Nice insight to the soundtrack, tho Simon is way too modest imho... the first time I heard Leap of Faith I went to tears from the sheer level of awesome.
Also, I think there's a slight mistake in insert 7&8 since it reads "who has great relative pitch and a great ear for harmonies" instead of "who has a great ear for relative pitch and harmonies" which imo would make more sense...
Looking forward to next Tuesday! o/
Relative pitch
That text actually isn't wrong. "Relative pitch" is a term as is "perfect pitch". "Perfect pitch" is a person's ability to identify the frequency or musical name of a specific tone, or, conversely, the ability to produce some designated frequency, frequency level, or musical pitch without comparing the tone with any objective reference tone". "Relative pitch" is a person's ability to identify the intervals (pitch relation) between one or more given tones. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pitchI'm glad you enjoy the music - though I'd guess that you being brought to tears by Leap of Faith says more about how easily you are brought to tears than the quality of my music. =D
Then again, nostalgia probably plays a part here and that power can hit anyone's soft spot. I'm glad you enjoy both the texts and the songs (even track 15)!
Simon Viklund!
When is the next time you are going to be on the podcast? You are by far the funniest person from Grin that has appeared on the podcast yet.Augh, my non-nativity is showing
Ahhh, I knew what it meant in practice, but... Ah well.Hälsningar från Finland! ;)
The power of nostalgia can be quite frightening, but it's not like any 'ol half-hearted attempt would produce the effect. :p