Jamie Antonisse

I don't have too many occasions to be proud of my work... but I'm pretty happy about this. I made it for "Wrath of the Transperator", a Flash game that Matt Korba, Paul Bellezza, Phil Gregorchuck, Mike Brazil and I have been working on for the upcoming B-Game competition. Check out the song, which I composed in GarageBand (the now-ancient '05 edition) with a little much-needed falsetto help from my roommate Adam.

If you're too cool for quicktime, stop whining and download the song here.
More on the game to come soon.

A little background: As I mentioned before, I've been working on this B-Game project called Wrath of the Transperator with some folks from the IMD (and one talented Business School student). A large part of our job has been in keeping active on the TIG forums, you know, for PR reasons... so a few days ago I posted a song I made, "Boss Fight", as a taste of what the game would bring.

Yesterday, I logged into the forums, just to see how things were going, and saw this.

You might miss it at first... right in the middle of page two. Is that....? No..... is that.... really....?

Voting for the B-Game competition has begun! You can find Wrath of the Transpera(o)(i)(en)tor, nestled right at the alphabetical bottom. Or you can download and play the Flash game by clicking here.

Over the past two weekends, I did a bunch of work for this project... some of it appears in the final version, some doesn't. See the story scrolling by at mach speed? That was my stream-of-consciousness rambling (," he said with inexplicable pride). Likewise the music, which was a happy return to Garage Band composition + sequencing.

You WILL notice one level in which there is an ominous lack of music. It's in the third level of the game, which we presciently named "Level Two". I actually did compose a bit for that stage, a completely home-grown Nintendo tribute which sadly crashed the game every time it was included. I guess it had too much..... awesome?

It's actually my favorite track from the game, barring Boss Fight... so I felt like I had to put it somewhere. For anyone curious, here it is below (Pump the bass, and be patient in minute one, its a slow burn).

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So play Transperator, our B-Game... we know it has some warts, but we love it anyway, and hopefully you'll have fun with it too. If there's any demand (and I mean ANY demand... I don't need much encouragement) I'll post the rest of the music and the Naked Lunch tribute piece that we call the "story".

The people (i.e. Hutson) have spoken, so here are all four songs I made for Wrath of the Transperator. I promise, this is the last time I'll do an original post about this music unless Ben Abrams makes good on his techno remix of Boss Fight.

For good measure, here's the link to the B-Game competition again... try playing the game if you dare.

This week's Sunday edition of Baghead will be postponed to next week in honor of October.

There are three days left in the B-Game competition... so if you can find it in your heart to vote for Transperator, vote now! If you aren't a member of TIGForums yet, you won't be able to play or vote... but if you're interested, sign-up is easy. Just throw down your email address and you have access to all the riches of the indie developer community. Really, that's all we've got.

Those of you who've played the game already may have noticed a huge chunk of text scrolling by at intentionally unreadable speed. Like the game's music, the story of Transperator was my jurisdiction.

Wow... a club jamm(m) remixx of Boss Fight, courtesy of my good friend Ben Abrams, aka D-Luxx Supreme. Yes, a remix!!!!! Amazing!!!!

***FULL DISCLOSURE: THIS SONG CONTAINS THE F-WORD (FUCK). PLEASE DO NOT PLAY IT INDISCRIMINATELY AROUND LITTLE KIDS***

Adam's Review: "It'sjuicy. It's so juicy that [unprintable]."