Tulpas, Tunes and Video Games: Some Casual Contemplation

  Hello hello there, good people! It's Amalia here, with another post about an old video game! But there's a twist, this time! Michael never played this one back in the day, you see. In fact, We'd never had any contact with Wolfenstein before this. Because in Germany, some games of this franchise are outright banned, and the others were censored quite heavily until recently. Now, we wouldn't ordinarily care too much about playing the censored version of a game, because even in an action game, we don't *need* all the gore and swastikas all over the place. But! The censored versions of the Wolfenstein games did something much worse than just cutting out that sort of stuff. You see, the special censored versions you'd get if you bought it in Germany...... are only playable in the German language. That's no good, because 9 times out of 10, translated works are just worse than the original. Something is nearly always lost in translation. And also, Michael and i a...

  Went on a hike through the local vineyards yesterday and found this lovely spot. Mornin' folks, Amalia here! Time to update you on what's been going on, starting with our... Musical/Blog stuff! Well, Thunder Stag just came out on friday, and so far, it's performance on release has been..... Well, let's say it's good to be reminded sometimes that we make music because we enjoy it, not because we're chasing big numbers. Anything else would just be a bit depressing. 😜 Though, if -you- want to make the numbers slightly bigger, you could give it a listen: You could also read our  production report  on here, if you'd fancy a bit of insight into the tune. But shilling aside, we got to work on our next tune a few days back, and had a brilliant time, laughing our butt off while recording some of the lyrics. It'll be an..... "exotic" tune. Shan't say more for now. 😉 As for our blog here, you can expect a big new video game post to hit very soon i...

  It's that time, again! Time for a song release! It's been 3 months since Electric Boogaloo. A bit of a longer break than we planned, but in this here post, we'll explain to you why! But first, let's talk about the tune itself. *Thunder Staaaaag* Imposing name, innit?  Well, there's a little story behind it. You can read it down below in the log. 😉 But yeah, there's a clear theme with this tune, and it's tempo changes. It's been one of times when you find a new toy (Studio One's tempo automation feature), and just kinda go wild with it. We'll be sure to do some more of that in future projects, but not quite as much, perhaps. I mean, check out the tempo track of this tune: Up, down, all around, going from 60 BPM all the way to 334! Going faster, going slower, changing rhythms, mixing things up in general. Honestly, it's quite fitting considering what was going on behind the scenes while we were making this one. In fact, let's talk about ...

Have a rare image of Amalia's form. Representing herself in various games and programs is a hobby of hers. Good morning, gentles and ladiemen! Michael here, and 'tis time for the Captain to make yet another Status Report! And i bring you good news, today! News about our.... Musical endeavours You see, we've been hyper-busy these past couple of weeks finishing up our next tune, and getting preparations done for it's release. So now, here in this post, i can announce that..... .... is releasing on the 22nd of August, '25! It took us a while since Electric Boogaloo, and we went into why when we wrote the Production Report on it, but in short, we shifted around a bunch of things in terms of how we release and market our music, and that took some time to get established. But now, it IS established, all the materials are uploaded and scheduled for release, and aside from the usual minor little things we have to take care of on release day, our work is done with this one! ...