Welcome to audio.cagames.com! Hopefully you’ve reached this blog because you need some sort of sound for your game, video, movie, commercial or other project. I am happy to oblige your audio needs, so please get in touch with me directly (email below). Have a listen to the samples listed in the player to the right for some recent compositions. If you’re looking for a bit of contracted audio, I can have a contract ready to go when your project needs me, and I’ll make the entire process as pain free as possible.
This is a blog as well, so you might also find something interesting in the chronicles of my work and discoveries I’ve made about myself as a musician.
Contact Roddy: rtoomim (at) cagames (dot) com
Testimonials:
“Roddy was able to take the varying desires of our team’s requests and provide us with something that ultimately satisfied us all. And on top of that, he delivered well head of schedule!”- Steve Westhoff, Whirled World Studios
“Very professional. The music and sound effects fit the mood of what we were looking for exactly and the work was completed in a very timely manner.”- Joe and Vin Licari, Zero Emission Games
Posted in Blog, Contract, Music.
By Roddy
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A new song has been posted to the player on the right: Jewel’s “Foolish Games” as sung by my good friend (with a FREAKING AWESOME VOICE) Dawn Eminson, and recorded/mastered by yours truly. This is basically my first sung-vocals studio project and, in my humble opinion, believe it turned out pretty well.
Leave any recording/mastering-related critiques in the comments, if you’d like. I can certainly use it.
Note: the background track was not created by me, although I’m sure I could do something similar 
Posted in Music, Vocals, new work.
By Roddy
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It’s always good to have work to do! Thanks for hooking me up, Mark
Hope to be able to talk about the work going into this one at some point, as it’s certainly an interesting process.
Posted in Blog, Contract.
Tagged with Contract, news, work.
By Roddy
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The hugely popular Facebook game: Fantasy Kingdoms
My first major musical release, as defined by myself, has just taken place! Fantasy Kingdoms is a popular new game on Facebook with over 250,000 monthly players, and I was lucky enough to be chosen to provide them with an original score. Go check out the game if you’re of the Facebook gaming persuasion: http://apps.facebook.com/fantasykingdoms/
I hope you enjoy both the game and the audio!
The track for Fantasy Kingdoms was created with a number of tools and went through approximately seven iterations (there were minor changes I’m not counting which occurred in-between revisions) before we decided it was “complete”. It was certainly an educational and interesting experience, as this was my first Facebook game for which to compose!
Posted in Blog, Composition, Music, new work.
Tagged with major, Music.
By Roddy
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I’ll occasionally come back to the player on this site, listen to my old stuff and think, “That’s not half bad!” Yet other times (the majority of the time, actually), I think about how much I should have improved a track before releasing it into the wild, and that it was without a doubt below par for public consuption. Any other artists out there go through this see-saw effect when reviewing your old(er) works?
Posted in Blog, Music.
Tagged with aristry, question.
By Roddy
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Fist pumping for the roof's sake...awesome.
Available for: PC, Wii
“Rhino… Rhino Feeder…I was dreaming about… muffins.”
And ‘like a burning car or an imploding star’, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1 (a.k.a., SBCG4AP-E1) begins!. At the time of writing, the Brother’s Chap (Matt and Mike Chapman; creators of the web series) have long since had their heyday on the Net, which is to say, approximately 8 years ago. If that happens to be the case that you’ve missed the phenomenon, pull up a chair to your favorite Flash-capable computer (iPads steer clear!) and prepare to be amused while you get up to snuff with the shirtless, boxing-gloved, email-mocking Lucha Libre and the band of accompanying nutters in that universe. I say this mostly as a warning, since the humor presented in Tell Tale‘s translation of the series into the videogame realm relies heavily on your intimate knowledge of homestarrunner.com’s cast.
All caught up? Proceed with the awesomeness!
Continued…
Posted in Blog.
Tagged with completely unrelated ^_^, game review.
By Roddy
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A new track has been posted to the player to the right! Just click it to hear some not-so-understated demonstrations of what I can do.
Thanks to Drew McGee for his voice acting work in this piece!
Posted in Blog.
Tagged with demo, SFX, voiceover.
By Roddy
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Thanks to a last minute change in plans, I will be attending AGDC! Say “hi” if you see me!
Posted in Blog.
Tagged with gdc.
By Roddy
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New music posted!
My instrumental-only cover of Lacuna Coil’s original song “Swamped” from their album Comalies (the song is also available for download in Rock Band) has been posted to the right. It is currently the 2nd song in the list.
Remember: I am looking for singers to mix into this track, so if you think you’ve got the chops (and a mic), record a raw track of yourself singing any of the parts (no reverb, no additional sounds) and I will mix them in and post that track here as well! Think of this as a tribute to one of the hardest working bands in the world.
Make an MP3 of your vocals, and send them to my email address: rtoomim (at) cagames (dot) com.
Posted in Blog, Composition, Music.
Tagged with composition, drums, gothic, Lacuna Coil, Music, rock.
By Roddy
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I decided a couple of days ago that I’d make a concerted effort at recreating a rock song. Seeing as I’ve never composed a full song in this genre on my own, it’s a substantial task.
I chose Lacuna Coil’s song “Swamped” as my subject, and I’ve nearly completed the instrumental part of it. Since I’m not a great singer, I’m not yet sure if I’ll attempt to get that part in the final mix. So, if any of you out there are singers in the Austin area (liking Lacuna Coil would help), and you feel like being part of a fun experiment you should get in touch with me!
Edit: Even if you’re NOT in the Austin area, and you like Lacuna Coil enough to record yourself singing this track, I’ll welcome the submission and attempt to include it in the recording.
Even if I am unable to get singers, I’ll be posting the version of the backing track that I’ve created sometime soon. Looking forward to your critiques!
Posted in Blog, Music, new work.
Tagged with Lacuna Coil, mastering, midi, Music.
By Roddy
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This article will serve as an apology to myself for having NOT posted a damn thing last week. I’ll make sure to change that this week 
<sarcasm>Way to go, self. </sarcasm>
Lots of stuff happened, none of which should have kept me from getting something done here. Looks like there is a distinct possibility I’ll be able to name one of the games for the iPhone that I worked on, as it has been submitted to Apple for the App Store, and the developers would like to talk to me about doing a sequel/sequels! That’s exciting news!
Did another fun class for some students at GameCamp here in Austin at Austin Community College near Highland Mall. It’s always fun to attempt to both control and entertain a class of 10-17 year olds! I actually mean that…it’s usually a fun challenge, but I can imagine that task getting fairly trying and old after you’ve done it for more than a few months, day in and day out. I feel for all you middle and high school teachers! Get to know the GameCampers I taught here: GameCamp! – Play. Work. Learn.
Also, there is a new CryptoCast up! That took a good portion of our evening on Friday (the 7th), and you can listen to it here. If you’re really curious to watch us in action instead of just listening, you can check the justin.tv archive of the show here.
Posted in Blog.
Tagged with excuses, news, videogames.
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