The Maw DLC
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Interviews | No Comments »The latest interview for GameSetWatch and Gamasutra is with Twisted Pixel CEO Mike Wilford, who I met at the Penny Arcade Expo last year. The Maw was the PAX 10 finalist to receive the audience award among a host of memorable ...
Castlevania Judgment Soundtrack Interview
Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Interviews, Music, Videogames | No Comments »An interview with Hideki Sakamoto and Yasushi Asada on the Castlevania Judgment Original Soundtrack is now available on GameSetWatch. For more discussions on the music of Noisycroak, see the links below the Yakuza 2 and Echochrome thumbnails on Game ...
Introducing, Sound Current
Thursday, February 26th, 2009 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »My guest spot as an interviewer on GameSetWatch has just been extended to a regular column, called "Sound Current." This Q&A series will be exploring diverse opinions on innovative projects in videogame audio. The first installment under the ...
Iwatsuki on NES, SNES and XBox 360
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »In the latest installment of a GameSetWatch interview series, composer Hiroyuki Iwatsuki shares his experience working on three eras of videogame consoles. The titles he discusses are Chaos World for the 8-bit Famicom, Wild Guns for the Super Nintendo, ...
The Dangerous Audio of Penny Arcade Adventures
Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »This weekend the latest composer interview is on the frontpage of Gamasutra. The GameSetWatch Q&A is with Vancouver-based musician Jeff Tymoschuk. The article touches on Episodes One and Two of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, the Lovecraft-esque 1920's who-dunnit ...
PixelJunk Makers
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Interviews | No Comments »This is an interview with Kentaro Yoshida and Shouichi Tomi Tominaga of Q-Games. When I recorded this conversation at the office in Kyoto, I didn't know PixelJunk Monsters was headed to the PSP, that PixelJunk Eden would be picking ...
Michiko Naruke’s Wild Arms
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »Back in the early days of the 32-bit era, the first generation of home game consoles to adopt the compact disc as a storage system, there was something of a perceived RPG vacuum between the release of Square's last Super ...
Extra Hyper Korg DS-10
Thursday, December 18th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »From left to right: Michio Okamiya (The Black Mages), Nobuyoshi Sano (Ridge Racer), and Yasunori Mistuda (Chrono Trigger) The Korg DS Trio performed techno arrangements of songs from Final Fantasy, Ridge Racer and Chrono Trigger at the EXTRA Hyper Game Music Event. An ...
Hiroki Ogawa e il cammino verso la Dog Ear Records
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »This is the first article since "Kikuta's Lost Files Regained" that I've written in an editorial style that combines quotes taken from an audio interview with background research. The subject of the article is Hiroki Ogawa, the director ...
Music of Mega Man 9: Original & Arranged
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Interviews, Music | No Comments »GameSetWatch - Remixing the Mega Man 9 Soundtrack Gamasutra - The Story Of The Mega Man 9 Arrange Soundtrack (cross-posted) Siliconera - Mega Man 9 Original Soundtrack Interview (Both interviews available in Portuguese and Japanese)