Thanks so much for all the compliments!
Ric asked about my background. I'm a former trumpet player and music education major, so I suppose you could say that's where the more "classical" influences come from.
Unfortunately, I had to drop trumpet when I blew my lips out. Oh well!
And BigKahuna, you mentioned problems with the website. Just in case I made a typo at mp3.com, here's the URL again:
http://cgo.adventuregamer.com/neptune/
You probably aren't on AOL, but I don't believe the site works with their browser. It might not work with Netscape either. It does with with MSIE. I have to be honest; it's a pretty poorly designed site, and it hasn't been updated in way too long.
Finding Neptune was totally random. Some of you may have heard of the game company, Sierra On-Line. About a year ago, they went through some serious restructuring, resulting in over 100 employees being laid off. A forum was set up on the net for former employees to keep in touch, and for fans to talk about the demise of their favorite game company.
Anyway, I saw a post from a guy looking to start a volunteer-based game developer over the net. I figured I'd always wanted to write the soundtrack for an adventure game, and that was my chance. As I understand it, the volunteer status may change if the game finds a publisher. I'm told companies have shown some interest. And becuase of where the post was made, former employees of Sierra are also in on the project.
I'm not expecting much, but who knows? Maybe the game will have some success. And even if it doesn't, maybe this experience could get me in with a bigger developer one day.
And even if THAT doesn't happen, I'm having fun. So it's all good.
