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The End of Rock Band Weekly DLC

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 04:59:22 +0000

After 275 consecutive weeks, the Rock Band DLC train is coming to an end. 4200+ songs across numerous titles and platforms, no other game has come close to injecting new content for so long. My first project on DLC was to author the guitar and bass tracks for the album releases of the Cars and the Pixies Dolittle. It was an amazing ride with many stories. I’m sad to see it come to an end, but I’m happy to have touched millions of lives in at least a minor way.

Dance Central 3

admin — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 03:59:51 +0000

Teamed up with Usher, Dance Central 3 proves to be a step up from the previous games. A time-traveling adventure to learn dance moves of the past, like ”The Hustle,” “Electric Slide” and “The Dougie”, DC3 boasts an amazing 8-player experience with innovative new game modes.

Grim Dawn on Kickstarter!

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:03:38 +0000

With the self-funding success of Double Fine’s Kickstarter campaign, and a few additional games hot on its heels, we decided to finish out the pre-alpha stretch by promoting Grim Dawn on Kickstarter as well. We’re not looking to be quite as successful as those high-profile names, we do have a pretty substantial following already. The best part is that the completion of the game does not rely on this promotion. It will release either way! Check it out!

Grim Dawn on Kickstarter

Rock Band Blitz!

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:14:37 +0000

Recently we announced Rock Band Blitz on G4TV’s X-Play. This game takes a casual, single player approach to the Rock Band beatmatching core. With the ability to tap into your entire DLC catalogue, you can play any of the 3000+ songs that we have released and made available via disk export. The game is fast paced and fun, and currently playable at PAX East this weekend!

VidRhythm

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:27:52 +0000

Create amazing mashups of your daily life with our new iOS app, VidRhythm!

Dance Central 2

admin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:01:05 +0000

Who knew we could improve so much on the best-selling Kinect hit, Dance Central? Boasting seamless drop-in-drop-out multiplayer, dance battles, an amazing setlist of chart-topping artists, and voice control, Dance Central 2 is the best dance experience yet!

Harmonix pulled together some of the best songs of the past few decades from artists like Gnarls Barkley, Usher, Daft Punk, and Lady Gaga, with a few guilty pleasure tracks like “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot, “The Humpty Dance” by Digital Underground, and “Venus” by Bananarama. Our team of professional choreographers created some of the freshest and authentic dance moves to date, and if you like to exercise, we have pre-made cardio setlists that help you get your heart pumping.

Check out all the details at DanceCentral.com

Dance Central 2 – E3 2011 Premier

admin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:21:54 +0000

During E3, 2011, we announced Dance Central 2 is in the works! The biggest feature upgrades is an amazing multiplayer mode. Dancers can just step in if they want to tear up some carpet with their friends, and step out when they’re out of breath from a 3 minute song.

Here’s the E3 trailer that we showed:

Grim Dawn

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:01:37 +0000

Grim Dawn has been a very interesting project. Talented people, mostly ex-Iron Lore, across all disciplines are coming together to make an amazing action RPG using the Titan Quest engine. As a Diablo clone, the gameplay is intuitive. Using tech we already knew, the speed at which we are able to create content is mind-blowing. I’ve added some music selections to the player at the bottom of the window, and here is a pre-alpha tech demo.

Dance Central

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:01:58 +0000

DC was a launch title with the Kinect sensor for the Xbox 360. It had one of the highest attach rates to the newly released Kinect, becoming one of the most successful titles through their first year on the market.

My role in this title was primarily triage. I came on during the final crunch to help finish cutscenes and cinematics, last minute sound design, and finish VO editing and processing, while constructing new lines of dialogue out of unused takes.

Rock Band 3

admin — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:01:27 +0000

Turning the corner from entertaining game to real musical teaching and techniques, RB3 pushed the envelope in the music game genre. As real musicians at Harmonix, we felt that while it was fun to mimic these epic rock songs, it wasn’t enough. We had to show players what it was like to actually play these hits. After seeing YouTube videos of players full-clearing our hardest 5-button tracks, we knew that the world was ready for the real-deal. But it wasn’t enough to include real guitars – being a keyboard player, I was a huge advocate for the inclusion of a keyboard peripheral and 5-button and real keys game modes.

My personal involvement included a ton of sound design for the vignettes throughout the game, creating the spec and authoring the entirety of the 5-button keys charts, and leading the audio teams throughout the development cycle.