Tom Jensen

🎵Percocet, Molly Percocet🎶 stuck in my head from seeing the Kazakhstan / Uzbekistan / Dagestan etc. tourism videos too often

Enjoying Midsommar so far, gorgeously made and deeply dark. Immersion partially ruined by these flute players. The way their hands moved could not physically play the music we hear, which would have been added later. Very small detail, but any wind player or composer is going to notice this!

1000 followers 😳😳🫪 Here's me with our puppy Nino

#Archrebel demo is finally OUT! A major milestone has been reached. Thank you folks for staying with me this long. 🍻 #gamedev #indiegamedev

This is it! #Archrebel's standalone demo is releasing tomorrow. It's game heavily inspired by the classics: REBELSTAR and LASERSQUAD games, developed by Julian Gollop. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Today's listening. A gorgeous Strauss song He wrote over 200 songs in his lifetime, his style has these wonderful unusual modulations and so they go to all these unexpected places. I first heard this at a concert I organized, was in the Soprano's repertoire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxci...

the game designer discord for my city has a dedicated channel for lasagna

This open letter to Cornell is a DOOZIE. They better take notice -All perpetrators should be expelled -everyone who viewed the chat suspended -admin team handling the response fired -Fraternity dissolved permanently -organizing to stop all donations until then... www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Danny Elfman at 55 vs. Danny Elfman at 73 It’s never too late to become an actual monster

12 Days to go, Commanders! #Archrebel is probably the most heartfelt tribute to the classic REBELSTAR and LASER SQUAD games created by Julian Gollop. This demo is a complete short game, and you can easily put 20+ hours into it if you plan to see it all. #gamedev #Indiegamedev

Had an awesome time talking at Communion last Friday - such a cool event, and damn, what a venue! Really enjoyed the talks, lots of variety and unusual topics. I now know that I have 2 kinds of talk: music talks that go too deep, and "depressing war shit" 🤣🤣

Quake Rooftops is out now! Download below and go gib some shamblers! www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

I'M TALKING TOMORROW AT THIS

Today's listening - Protest the Hero! Just love their variety, grooves, harmony, tech-ness, and the range of the singer is OFF THE CHART. I've tried a few of their other albums, but this one for me is like no skip, all gold. 🎵For a million years 🎶 raise your glass🎵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMW...

The start map for Quake Rooftops is ready soon! Ty for your patience! 💜

9 games that shaped who I am...

Someone needs to do a music PhD on English Civil War drum signals - you get to decipher these weird 17th C shorthands! #history #musicology #ecw #wargames #musictheory

Science is cool and all, but can doom run on Voyager I?

Peter once again sharing fascinating insights into wargaming... My Ukraine 2022 rules mentioned alongside some heavyweights!

this morning i'm playing 'The Ruins of Calaworm! this just came out, and just received its first patch! it's been really fun watching the development of it. the game is here: erdbeerscherge.itch.io/ruins-of-cal...

With the release of #ruinsofcalaworm I thought I'd share the process behind the madness creating the music.... It's been one hell of a ride! tom-jensen.com/blog.html#Th...

The game has released! #ruinsOfCalaworm is a lovingly rework from an obscure early 90s German Dungeon Crawler. Think #roguelike but earlier: no ranged, no builds, few stats, deceptively simple. Just You and then Dungeon, bumping into Witches and Eldritch Horrors. --> Get it on @itch.io (Link in Bio)

Game Designers - I will research the instruments and style of 19th C European ballrooms. I will give the melody to the Euphonium. There will be waltzes, there will be dignified yet luscious chord progressions. I will write in full tails at the piano #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamemusic

My 10 min microtalk at COMMUNION Auckland in October How soon is too soon? The answer is it's never too soon, and it's also always too soon. People that died in the 490 BC are just as human as those that died in Ukraine or Gaza this year. But how do we handle this in video and board games?

#ruinsOfCalaworm releases in 3 days, on August 28th ...👀 #roguelike #indieGame

Game Designers - I will fugue your shit up www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lNy... #gamedev #gamemusic #gamedesign

#ruinsOfCalaworm releases in 5 days ... 👀 #roguelike #indieGame

"I have seen things in this world that would make Isaac Newton crawl back into his mothers womb!" Eggers dropping the mad lines as usual - Nosferatu (2024) Love the hand-drawn looking title font too

huge stalker 2 update lookin good

Retro Game Designers - I will research the specific period and games that your project is drawing on, find out which synthesizers were available, how the music was written, and then GO NUTS creating music in that style. For example: #ResidentEvil and #ResidentEvil2 #gamemusic #gamedesign #gamedev

Claude Monet's house kitchen, in Giverny

Game Developers - I will make a shitty audio recording on my phone, then turn it into a fully produced track with live instruments. Sometimes what a track needs is that "organic" element that comes from improvisation - creating something without the limits of a music program. #gamedev #gamemusic

Gustav Klimt, On Lake Atter

Game Designers: I will hire a grammy award winning cellist, write a track that other composers said had "TOO MUCH CELLO", but then when I come back with the live recordings they say "ACTUALLY THAT'S THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF CELLO", just for your game Every game deserves the right amount of cello #gamedev

30 YEARS OF QUAKE MORE THAN 30 HOURS OF WORK (probably) HAND PIXELLED. #pixelart #digitalart #retro #quake #doom #id

Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri in the 1980 Broadway play ‘Amadeus’