A devastating war is raging for absolute control of the planet Cybertron, home to the heroic Autobots and their arch enemy the evil Decepticons. Transforming mechanical life forms in a desperate struggle to conquer or save this once peaceful world and you will bear witness to the epic origins of Autobot leader Optimus Prime and the maniacal Decepticon leader Megatron, before they embark to our own Earth.

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Recently Steve Jackson’s Sorcery – The Shamutanti Hills released on the Apple iTunes App Store. This contains music composed by myself on the Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard. This is my first official original music release for a game and hopefully many more will follow. The soundtrack is mainly comprised of looping tunes set to a pretty rigid requirement by the game’s designers, however with the ending music, I was allowed to let my imagination take over utilising a pan flute and strings, so this is of course my favourite track . Very movie like and hopefully you will agree quite catchy.

Based on the best-selling Fighting Fantasy gamebook system, The Shamutanti Hills is Book One in Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series. Your epic quest will take you across the mysterious hills to the cityport of Kharé, but only if you outwit the creatures, traps and wizardry you encounter along the way. Play as either a warrior or as a wizard. If you choose wizardry, your survival will depend on your knowledge of the Sorcery! Spell Book’s darkest secrets. With many other unique features to discover, Sorcery! is a true challenge for novice and veteran adventurers alike.

You can listen to a few of the tracks I composed for the title by visiting my Last.fm artist profile page.

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Nearly a year ago, I played the Simon the Sorcerer theme on the Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard. Recently I taught myself another piece of gaming music nostalgia, this time from the classic puzzle game Lemmings. Using a bank of registration memory settings that I created, a Premium Style accompaniment, multipads, a range of voices and even a couple of Lemmings sound clips that I trigger with a foot pedal. I really hope you enjoy my latest performance.

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Every four years, our hearts are constantly broken as each time we dare to sit down to watch the latest and possibly greatest sporting event to appear on our televisions. We raise our expectations oh so high and far from learning our lesson from previous tournaments, we repeat our silly footballing traditions by standing up every time when we think our team have scored, shouting at the manager’s poor choice of substitution and wondering how on earth the goal keeper saved that magnificent shot, denying your team victory.

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In this video interview, I speak to Jeremy Hague from Netralia as we discuss and explore the new enhance tab features that gives you options to add text, pictures and audio to your final generated video in the Vodburner Editing Console. Vodburner records live Skype webcam conversations combined with an editor allowing you to edit your captured video to then customise the different views, delete segments and add additional features.

I also interviewed Jeremy in my very first Vodcast as we delved into the benefits of the Vodburner software in general.

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