The good people over at Swedish Game Awards asked me to make a jingle/soundlogo for their videos. Finally it’s done. Check it out here where it’s played before Kians speach about the process that led to You Have to Burn the Rope. Unfortunately only in swedish.
The Joystiq competition is still going on. If you live in the USA or Canada you can download the instrumental of ”Now You’re a Hero”, record yourself singing about your favorite game, and if you’re lucky – win a DS Lite and a game!
I just checked out Joystiq’s site and was a bit dissapointed that they’ve encoded the music in 64kbit. I sent them the original high-quality wavefile. To make up for it I added it to Newgrounds in 256kbit.
If you’re not living in Canada or the USA and still want to create something, please inform me. I’d be happy to hear what you make of it.
Do you ever play too much World of Warcraft? Well if you do, here’s what might happen.
Guitar and additional vocals by The Incredible Haze.
You can download the song in the player on the right side.
It feels like a long time ago Kian showed me the idea to You Have to Burn the Rope. I instantly loved it and asked if I could make the music. He’d already promised someone else to do it and wasn’t sure he needed me. Lucky for me he did.
Little did we know the success it was going to be. We’ve been trying to follow the journey of the game and people’s comments. Some people actually think that we had a plan. Believe me when I say, we had no idea! I was prepared to read many horrible comments about the music and then a couple of nice ones. That would have made my day. Now I’ve read so many positive comments that I’m actually starting to believe that I’ve accomplished something. I’m an artist, I’m supposed to have low self-esteem…
Even though we both enjoy the warm (mostly) welcome by the gaming community it’s also been overwhelming at times. Both me and Kian are happy that the worst part is over. Now we can concentrate on future projects. I can assure you that you haven’t heard the last of us yet. Both as partners in new games and on individual endeavours.
As the headline states, YHTBTR has reached one million plays. The credits song Now you’re a hero has been downloaded more than 11.000 times. And that’s only my statistics from Newgrounds and Reverbnation. I haven’t checked it on MySpace (and I’m not even sure there are any). I found the song uploaded on a couple of servers which is great, but I wish there was a Mochibot for music as well.
The game’s been reviewed a couple of times and got both good and bad critique. My favorite though is this one, by a 4 year old boy.
BbM7 – F – Am7 – Dmaj7
BbM7……..F
Congratulations
Am7………………….Dmaj7
you managed to kill that boss you see
BbM7………………….F
the Grinning Colossus
Am7……………………….Dmaj7
you’re the hero we all wish we could be
BbM7……………………… ………F
You made it through the tunnel
Am7…………………………..Dmaj7
then you grabbed that fire on the wall
BbM7…………………..F
you jumped up above him
Am7…………………………..Dmaj7
then you burned the rope and saved us all
BbM7 – F
Am7……………………Dmaj7
you burned the rope and saved us all
BbM7 – F
Am7……………………Dmaj7
you burned the rope and saved us
A……………………G
Now you’re a hero
………………………..D…………………………A
you managed to beat the whole damn game
………………………………G
we’re happy you made it
………………………..D……………………………………A
but how are you gonna spend the rest of this day
E
maybe watch a video
…………………………………………….A
maybe press refresh and start again
G…………A
Yes it’s over now
G……………A
we didn’t want to make a longer game
G……..A………………..E
this is it I swear it’s true
oh ohh
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I’d like to add some trivia here.
You know the second time I sing ”You burned the rope and saved us all”, that’s when I start to play a string on my keyboard. There’s a construction site right next to my house where they’re building around the clock. This perticular night I was editing the song in Reason when I heard a high pitch tone coming streaming through the window. I thought ”hey, I have to have some strings somewhere in my song.”.
You never know where inspiration will come from.
Cave
The song in the tunnel.
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Lethal intro
A little extra. Something I made that was supposed start the bossfight, but people finished the game too fast. I threw it in the basket.
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Busta Buss
Not Busta Rhymes. Busta Buss! Bust the boss. This is the tune played in the boss room.
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Now you’re a hero
The credits song.
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When my friend Kian showed me a draft of the idea to this game, I was stunned. It’s so simple yet clever. You Have to Burn the Rope is a fantastic piece of art. I was given the honor of composing the music to the game.
Now You’re a Hero by Reachground is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Feel free to download the song in the player on the right side.
I happened to stumble upon this very funny video with Sarah Silverman on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show.
I really wanted to play the song so I started to look for chords or tabs. There seems to be nothing out there so I decided to transcribe it myself.
F Gm * 3
Bb C
F
…………………………..C
I’m fucking Matt Damon
…………………………. … ..Bb
(She’s fucking Matt Damon)
……………………F
I’m sorry but it’s true
…………………………..C
I’m fucking Matt Damon
………………………………..Bb
(She’s fucking Matt Damon)
………………………..F
I’m not imagining it’s you
F (one octave up)
I’m fucking Matt Damon
Dm
on the bed
……….Am
on the floor
…………………….Bb
on a towel by the door
.
in a tub
… ….. C
in the car
………………….. F
up against the minibar