Get to know the people who make great videogames
[Sup Holmes is a weekly talk show for people that make great videogames. It airs live every Sunday at 4pm EST onYoutube, and can be found in Podcast form onLibsynandiTunes.]
Last weekend on Sup Holmes we welcomedMagnus “SoulEye” Palssonto the program, composer ofVVVVVVand many other scores. This man surprised me many times. I had no idea that Magnus was originally going to compose music forMega Man 2.5, but was asked to step down from the project so that preexistingMega Manmusic could be used instead. When you have the composer of one of the most best original “exciting, death dealing platformer” soundtracks in recent memory, and he’s willing to work with you for free, I figure it would be smart to take advantage of that. It’s hard to imagine that the game will be better without Magnus’s involvement.
We talked about that and a lot of other subjects, like Magnus’s early fascination with using primitive computers to create music, the recent run of fetish posts in the Destructoid Community Blogs, what it’s like to know that millions of people have heard your music, and his plan to develop a game about learning to be more emotionally expressive and present in real life. It sounds amazing, like a cross betweenSuper Better, Skype andLet’s Quip. It’s an ambitious project, certainly not something that will come together overnight, but knowing that Magnus once made an electric typewriter sing makes me confident he’ll pull this off too.
Thanks again to Magnus for being on the show, and be sure totune in today at 4pm ESTwhen we welcomeTim Rogers(Shadows of the Damned,ZiGGURAT,Videoball) back to the program. Maybe we’ll finally find justwhat the heck is going on at Midnight City….
