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 on Youtube, and can be found in Podcast form on Libsyn and iTunes.]
Last weekend on Sup Holmes we welcomed Magnus “SoulEye” Palsson to the program, composer of VVVVVV and many other scores. This man surprised me many times. I had no idea that Magnus was originally going to compose music for Mega Man 2.5, but was asked to step down from the project so that preexisting Mega Man music 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 between Super Better, Skype and Let’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 to tune in today at 4pm EST when we welcome Tim Rogers (Shadows of the Damned, ZiGGURAT, Videoball) back to the program. Maybe we’ll finally find just what the heck is going on at Midnight City….