Now I must understand what a “tunnel like hall” is.

WALK to DOOR (by Lucia Cyr)

“H0m3br3w + Ending” — from the whole eightbit.me soundtrack you can download — accompanies the eightbit.me video that’s been doing the rounds. I scribed it while looking at early screenshots of eightbit.me, before I ever knew it would travel to the iPhone. I’m delighted how it all turned out with moving pictures!

The bass is massive on a decent sub system, and I went into this thinking, “What if I removed the wobble from a dubstep bass patch?” Many of the sounds on this and others are powered by Plogue’s Chipsounds, which is a funny backstory: Addison and Courtney of eightbit.me reached out to me after watching various YouTube videos in which I was demoing Chipsounds.

The distinctive melody that begins @ 0:14 has quite the ample echo-delay. Sometimes when I use a delay effect, it’s like “time trails”, which would be conceptually significant here.

David Viens of Plogue astutely noted the ascended bass @ 0:55 is reminiscent of M.U.L.E., which I never played. But boy, did I love Robot Rascals!

Little spice touches are a lot of fun. I don’t know all the technical terms but slot machine sounds = WINNING!!!! and that’s why there’s one @ 1:05.

As I often do, I drafted the melodies in minutes: I believe if something’s going to be easy to remember, it’s got to be easy to come up with. (Sometimes, I’m semi-wrong.)

The robotic eightbit.me singsong voice at the end is me by way of Sonic Charge’s Bitspeek. I’m not one of those “Auto-Tune/vocoder is overused” types, but Bitspeek had recently come out and reminded me of a Speak ‘n’ Spell, so how’s that for more nostalgia in a handy grab bag?

I had also begun experimenting with BT + Izotope’s Stutter Edit, albeit in a rather subtle fashion, which is why if you’re a gear geek, you prolly didn’t recognize it at the end.

There’s also the looped version without the ending.

OH OH OH OH! If you already downloaded the eightbit.me soundtrack, download it again. As a sound designer, I added a ZIP pack of bonus sound effects in hi-fi WAV format… you can use as alert sounds and other such jangles (or convert into ringtone). Includes the coin and whoosh sounds from the vid. =)

Torley music fans, by pixel-popular demand: eightbit.me chiptunes-loaded, micro-soundtrack GET IT HERE!!!!1234

(via eightbit.me | Torley)

As children, Torze of the three-armed coalition “devised” a way to make Nintendo games more interesting: called a GAME SCREWER, we’d wad bits of Kleenex into the bottom of a cart unto it bungled up bits and turned sprites and backgrounds into a dithered mishmash of crap.

When done with fun, yes, we’d inevitably have to BLOW… oh, the pun here. What other yesteryear surprises will eightbit.me awaken?

Yet Another Entry Into The 404 Page Hall Of Fame

Well, isn’t that quaint, the eightbit.me parody likes neon pink and green. Their use of Comic Sans is ludicrously commendable, but it needs more horribly-aliased spray can tool.

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New services poised to charm SxSW (the annual geek fest in Austin, Texas that begins tomorrow), typically inspire overnight clones, but Eightbit has instead inspired a parody service built by Bnotions called Eightshit.me. (via Sticky, Not Smarmy: How to Introduce Your Startup | Fast Company)

AHHHH so delighted to see all the little eightbit.me avatars being birthed. The site is NOW LIVE OPEN… so why don’t you go and digitize yourself now? Be an awesome pixel person.

The trippy part this vid shows is checking in at real-world places with crispy coin soundz. Which given my monk-ness, is pretty far out!

I will be so happy to hear of people checking in at video arcades and other forward-looking, nostalgic establishments. Which would bring the whole thing a few circles ‘round, or at least a spiral ouroboros (suck on that, Lovecraftian architecture!). 

I composed the music + sfx — the tune is “H0m3br3w” and programmed to do exactly what it says on the tin. Chipsounds and Bitspeek both figure heavily, thank goodness for audiovisual time travel.

Designer mastermind Addison Kowalski also did an interview for NBC LA where an excerpt of the vid plays! Funnily enough, the reporter calls it “eight byte”… hm, that’s 8x the memory?

Thank you itsalexmyers for the shoutout. =^_^=

If only Rich Gold (speaking of coins, what a wealthy name) had been here to see these micro computer people.

Introducing EightBit.Me (by eightbitme)

“Starting March 12th you can win 1 of 5 of our EightBit Cartridge Hard Drives at this years SXSW by checking-in to spots using EightBit.”

That looks schweeeet.

EightBit VS SXSW

EightBit.me is a fun little service that makes it easy for users to create avatars for themselves in 8-bit graphics, the old-fashioned looking video-game type imagery. The site has allowed a limited number of beta testers in and today opened up a gallery of some of their avatars. It looks like a lot of fun. (Note: The site includes auto-playing music.)

Emphasis mine. Stay tuned in to create your own little computer person!

I contributed the oldskoolvideogamey music, thanks Addison and Courtney for the heads-up!

EightBit.me is Going to See a Flood of Happy 30-Somethings