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Ghost Recon Commander Nominated for GANG Award

The Game Audio Network Guild (GANG) award nominations for 2012 have been announced and Ghost Recon Commander (Loot Drop/Ubisoft) has been nominated in the category of Best Audio in a Casual, Indie or Social game. Dren was Audio Director on this project, writing the score, creating the sound design, directing…

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Secret Spaceship Club – Worlds of Wander Kickstarter from Tom Hall!

Tom Hall (game designer of many amazing games such as Commander Keen, Doom, Anachronox, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3d, Pettington Park and more) has started a Kickstarter for his Worlds of Wander/Secret Spaceship Club project. WORLDS OF WANDER is a PLATFORM GAME CREATION TOOL that lets you build and…

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nerdtracks brings the MindSnacks

Nerdtracks created all of the audio for the next generation of the MindSnacks suite of educational apps and games on iOS. There are 10 different apps in all, ranging from language apps (Spanish, German, Italian, French, Chinese) to SAT vocabulary to Math and Geography. Musically, we created a theme/melody as…

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Audio Challenges in a Gamer’s Game for Facebook (Ghost Recon Commander)

An article I wrote on the audio development of the Loot Drop/Ubisoft title, Ghost Recon Commander was published today on Gameaudio101.com. I discuss the reconciling of creating a core-game’s audio soundscape with Facebook game expectations and provide a lot of audio examples, discussion of the game score, the VO, the…

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Reels and Reels of Dren Music Stuffs

Friends, I just created a Souncdloud set with several different music reels and wanted to post it up here. It’s mostly game music, but there are a few library pieces, and music for other media, such as Nvidia (GTC, and Project Shield etc).