Video Games/Apps

Mr. Mine Gameplay Soundtrack

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Developer: Austin Oblouk, Playsaurus
Release Date: October 21st 2021
Platforms: PC, Steam, Mobile (Late 2021)
Website: https://mrmine.com/

Mr. Mine is an idle, mining game created by Austin Oblouk of Playsaurus. In the game, the player controls a mining operation that includes a drilling machine, mine workers, an oil rig and other assets that contribute to one drilling further toward the Earth’s core. Along the way, one may collect raw materials to enhance equipment, hire mining managers, collect treasures, encounter enemies, and more.

Playsaurus hired me to compose a unique soundtrack for their extensive gameplay. The music needed to be ambient enough to sit in the background, but also continually loop without becoming an ear sore to the listener. After nearly a dozen iterations, I delivered a 5+ minute, pleasing, harmonious and ambient soundtrack. Hopefully it’s one for the ages.

Special thanks to Austin at Playsaurus for providing me the opportunity to work on this game. It was a blast and I cannot wait to work on the next one!

(Content below is from the developer)

Description

Get rich or die mining! Idle your way through the mines, unearth treasures, and discover what great mysteries lie in the depths below!

Features

Over 100+ drill upgrades to unlock as you progress through the mines!

Many unique buildings to encounter with special mechanics to help you dig faster and get further!

Lots of quests to complete and achievements to unlock

Hire scientists to find rare relics to help you progress further.

  • Many Secret encounters. Can you find them all?
  • Chests with hidden upgrades.
  • Unlock new features the deeper you go. Discover them all!
  • Afraid of federally induced inflation? Mine tons of precious gems and ores to make your billions! Klang Gang!
  • Updated artwork & rebalanced progression from the original!

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Images are the property of Playsaurus Inc.

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Arcade Runner – iOS Game

Game: Arcade Runner
Developer: Realmac Software / Daniel Counsell
Website: realmacsoftware.com
Retailers: iTunes

Arcade Runner is a fast paced minimal style game with a gloriously 80’s soundtrack. Help Cubie run and jump his way to safety, but watch out for those dastardly enemies along the way.

One-tap easy-to-learn controls. Clean minimal visuals and addictive gameplay.

Easy to pick-up, hard to master.


Contribution:
  • Composed soundtrack
  • Produced synthetic in-game sound effects

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Description, music, video, and images are the property of Dan Counsell.
Visit dancounsell.com/games/arcaderunner for more information.

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HoloKart – Hololens Game

Developer: Charnas Engineering
Website: iancharnas.com

HoloKart is an augmented reality (AR) racing game prototype focused on providing consumers with a real-life simulation of Super Mario Kart. The prototype pairs go-karts and Microsoft’s HoloLens.

In the game, players wearing Hololens reality headsets and drive around a live go-kart track. They can pick up virtual items and use them enhance their own karts or to slow the progress of competing racers.


Contribution

  • Composed complete musical score in the vein of Super Mario Kart
  • Produced a mixture of synthetic and live sound effects to accompany visual effects

Visit iancharnas.com/holokart for more information.

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Almost Impossible! 2 – iOS Game

Developer: Daniel Counsell
Website: realmacsoftware.com
Retailers: iTunes

Almost Impossible! 2 is the follow-up to the previous chart topping game of the same name. Almost Impossible! 2 is a side-scrolling atmospheric puzzle platformer, built specifically for iOS. Guide a small ball of light on a dangerous journey.


Contribution:
  • Composed musical score
  • Produced synthetic sound effects

* Description, video, and images are the property of Dan Counsell.
Visit dancounsell.com/games/almostimpossible2 for more information.

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Toliti – iOS Word Game

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Game: Toliti
Developer: Top App D.O.O.
Website: facebook.com/wordgametoliti/
Retailers: App Store

(From the developer) Toliti – fun and educational new word game that will take you on a journey through stunning landscapes discovering new words along with improving your vocabulary and spelling skills.

The goal of the game is to find hidden words in a grid. To assemble a word just swipe the letters in any directions. You have three minutes to find as many as you can.

Want to train your brain to think and learn faster while having fun? Join the cute honey bee TOLITI and let the adventure begin!

  • Easy to play but challenging to master
  • Over hundred thousand words hidden
  • Different goal on each level
  • Superpowers to help you crack challenging levels
  • Daily rewards
  • No internet connection needed

Contribution:

• Composed complete musical score
• Created sound effects




* Description, music, video, and images are the property of Top App D.O.O.
Visit topapp.si/ for more information.

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SpellMiner iOS Game

Game: SpellMiner
Developer: Silas Faltus
Website: appadvice.com/app/spellminer/
Retailers: App Store

Released: July 2017
Description:
SpellMiner is an addictively fun, fast-paced word game loaded with power-ups and bonuses! Swipe the letters to clear words and mine deeper for more gold and bonuses. Spell longer words to spawn power letters that create massive explosions, rain down fire, boost your point multiplier, or freeze gameplay to give you extra time. Work your fingers quickly to build up a word combo for gold bonuses and a huge score that will leave your opponent astonished. Strategically use the point multiplier letters to create words worth a vast number of points.

Each round of gameplay flies by in two minutes. Challenge a friend or an auto-match opponent to a 3 round match and take your turns whenever you have a couple of minutes free. Each week, battle with your tourney friends for the top tourney round score. The winner takes the coin pot, along with bragging rights of course!

Loaded with player and round stats and packed with achievements that will challenge even the nimblest of finger and mind!


Contribution:

• Composed complete musical score
• Created sound effects




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Escape Puzzle: New Dawn – Mobile Game

Game: Escape Puzzle: New Dawn
Developer: Big Giant Games
Website: biggiant-games.com/
Retailers: App Store | Google Play!

Released: July 2016
Description:
Join Samantha and Gordon in an all new adventure!

Your mission is to obtain a vaccine from the New Dawn facility, claimed to be the only chance of protecting people from the devastating effects of the Torroto virus, which appears to have been developed as a biological weapon and is now spreading on a number of islands in the Pacific and is headed toward Hawaii.

Features
• Tricky and challenging puzzles!
• Gorgeous graphics!
• It’s FREE!
• No signup’s required, just download and install!

Enjoy this fun adventure escape game!



Contribution:

Composed complete musical score

Project 99
Sanctuary


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Rapidweaver 7

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Client: Realmac Software
Website: realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/

Released: May 2016
RapidWeaver is an all-in-one Mac app that enables anyone to build websites without writing a line HTML. Build anything from a small personal site, to an online commerce store. RapidWeaver is expandable and powerful enough to grow with you and your Business.

RapidWeaver has been around for over 12 years and has been in constant development during that time. RapidWeaver also has one of the most active and thriving third party community


Contribution:

Composed custom register/unregister sound effects


From the developer: “This is possibly one of my favourite fun new features in RapidWeaver.”


RapidWeaver Features

Build anything
Build a blog, a portfolio, a website for your new business or even an online store. Anything is possible.

No Code Required
Don’t know HTML? Don’t worry. You can build an entire site without writing a single line of code.

Theme Based
RapidWaver is theme based meaning you can have a great looking site up and running in minutes.

Smart Publishing
Publishing your site has never been easier: RapidWeaver cleverly only uploads files that have changed.

Browser Compatible
All the code that RapidWeaver publishes looks great in your favourite browsers – even Internet Explorer.

SEO Optimised
RapidWeaver generates code that search engines love, and makes sure search engines know about your website.

Mix Code & Rich Text
Your content lives happily alongside any HTML code you need to use. Just paste in the code and you’re good to go.

Extend with Addons
With almost 1,000 addons available for RapidWeaver, including everything from responsive themes, to CMS and eCommerce solutions. there’s literally nothing you can’t do with RapidWeaver!

Responsive Preview
The new themes in RapidWeaver are all responsive, and to help you imagine your site at different sizes you can resize the preview area to any width you like. There’s even handy presets for iPhone and iPad widths.

Re-usable Snippets
The snippets window lets you save frequently-used pieces of code and easily re-use them on multiple projects.

Versions & Autosave
Ever found yourself needing to quickly revert a change to your website? Thanks to Versions and Autosave, it’s never been easier. For the first time, RapidWeaver allows you to browse versions of your projects.

Theme and Plugin SDKs
Developers rejoice: we publish our SDKs on GitHub so you too can build incredible addons for RapidWeaver.

Free Training Videos & Podcast
We publish free training videos and a weekly yo help you make the best websites possible.


What’s New in RapidWeaver 7?

Overhauled FTP Engine
Super fast, super reliable FTP Engine (No, really it is this time!)

FTP Path Browser
You can now visually browser your FTP server to pick a location to publish too!

Built-in Web Server
Allows you to preview your entire site locally in a browser without having to export it

SEO Health Check
RapidWeaver will analyse your site and will highlight steps you can take to improve SEO.

Banner Images
In themes that support this new feature, you can now add a custom banner image to your site, and customise it on each page. Themes that support this feature also include optimal image dimensions to help you size images.

4 Responsive New Themes
Designed by Realmac, Elixir Graphics, MultiThemes, and Yuzool!

New, modern OS X sidebar
With translucency, that shows all your pages, resources and settings in one location.

Portable Documents
You can now choose to store resources inside your RapidWeaver document, enabling you to take the project between multiple Macs.

Multiple Publishing Locations
If you need to publish projects to multiple locations, you can set these up in your project, and choose the server when publishing. RapidWeaver’s smart publishing will also keep track of changes across multiple publishing locations.

Local Publishing
The “Export” feature is something we’ve always felt should be considered a way of publishing your site, and now it is!

Project Backup
RapidWeaver can optionally create a ZIP file of your project, and upload it to your server when publishing. The file is added to a “secret” location on your server, meaning that while it is downloadable by anyone who knows the cryptic web address, it’s tricky to guess that web address.

User-selectable Addons Folder
Need to save your addons in a custom location? RapidWeaver 7 allows you to do this, and will move your addons for you! Great if you’re working between machines.

Minified Javascript and CSS
RapidWeaver can now optimise your CSS and Javascript by minifying it. Previously, RapidWeaver would remove some whitespace, but this time we’re actually optimising it to be as quick to download and apply to your pages as possible.

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Clone Armies

Client: Elecube
Website:
clonearmies.elecu.be/
Retailers: App Store | Google Play!

Released: December 2015
Description: This is not your everyday 2D shooter. Clone Armies are different, new and fresh!
Remember how frequently did you smash restart button in action shooters, when something went terribly wrong and you died? In our game, you will probably do the same – but there is ONE big difference – your previous tries will back you up! Every additional clone will copy exact same moves you did, when you were playing as it.

Choose between many different units ranging from minigun wielding soldier to jet-pack or tank and use this unique mechanics along with your creativity to find one of the hundred ways to complete challenging missions in Clone Armies. Lead your army against the enemy with red hat and mustache!

Features:
– Unique game mechanics you’ve never seen before
– Easy and simple controls
– Various units with unique stats and abilities
– Many fun and challenging missions with increasing difficulty
– Multiple game mods + special Endless Mode where you can compete with other players
– Variety of hats and efects you can obtain to decorate your army of clones



Contribution:

Composed music

Clone Lab
Machine


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Almost Impossible!

Developer: Dan Counsell
Developer Website: realmacsoftware.com
Retailers: iTunes

Released: October 2015
Description:
“Catchy chiptune music, and addictive gameplay” — Beautiful Pixels
“Beautiful hardcore platformer” — iPlayApps.de
“Extremely well-polished, addictive and frustrating in the best possible way.” — Noted
“Almost Impossible! has one of the best control system in any iOS platform game I’ve played.” — En 25 Megas

Almost Impossible is the perfect casual game, easy to pick up, yet insanely addictive. You have been warned!

Almost Impossible is a side-scrolling atmospheric puzzle platform, built especially for touch screen devices. Guide a small ball of light on a dangerous journey, be careful, the road ahead is extremely challenging. Some may say it’s Almost Impossible!

With 50 action packed levels, Almost Impossible! is the most splendid game you’ll pick up this week!

FEATURES:
– 50 almost impossible levels (more levels coming soon…)
– Beautifully crafted retro future graphics
– Challenging and addictive gameplay
– Splendid real-time physics engine
– Beat your friends score with Game Center

Follow @dancounsell for updates and support.

Contribution:

Composed complete soundtrack and gameplay sound effects.



Almost Impossible OST Cover

Get the official soundtrack on Bandcamp!


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Slide Rush

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Client: Relative Path, LLC
Company Website: relativepath.io
Released: October 2015

A fast-paced, quick reflexes game that tests your reaction! Swipe through the commands as they appear, and earn extra points for reacting quickly!

Contribution:

Composed complete soundtrack and gameplay sound effects.
Slip and Slide
Slide
Sweet Intension


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Asciid

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Client: BPGames
Released: September 2015

(From the developer) Asciid is a challenging game that confronts the player with perilous traps and exciting levels. Use your power to switch between light and dark in each unique level to avoid the various hazards. Along the way you’ll find such hazards as Wrecking Balls, Sawblades, Floaters, Bobbers, Spikes and more. Grab the keys from each level to open the door!

Once you’ve braved your way through over 50 Campaign levels, challenge your skills in New Game+ mode where you’ll find an infinite combination of ever-increasing difficulty that will keep you on your toes through every door!

Features
– Over 50 Unique Campaign Levels
– Unlockable New Game+ Mode with randomly generated challenges and infinite combinations
– Achievements
– Leaderboards
– 8-Bit Action

Contribution:

Composed game soundtrack and SFX


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