Puzzle Poker "Higher Def" music download

I've been meaning to put this up for a while, but I've finally uploaded less compressed versions of all the music tracks in Puzzle Poker. We had to really squash the music to fit it under 3.5 MB total and I was happy with the results, but it's always nice to have less squashed music available. Unfortunately, the music is still mono because of some sort of bug that happens when you combine mono and stereo audio in the game, but it's an improvement regardless.

You can find the new music here. (ZIP file)

Backup the old theme.ogg, game.ogg, and award.ogg files then unzip the new files into Puzzle Poker's game\client\sounds directory.

In other news, last week I started work on an upcoming Xbox 360 Live Arcade game, my first such project. It's not a lot of work but it'll get me on to the 360 and that's pretty thrilling. I can't say what the game is, but chances are you've heard of it and probably played it. I'm honored to be part of the project I gotta say.

Also, last week I successfully auditioned for the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra to become their official Principal Tuba. I played with them all last year on a temporary basis, but managed to get through the audition and become their permanent tubist. I practiced more over the last couple of weeks than I probably ever have, which resulted in a bloody lip the weekend before the audition. It decided to start bleeding even more while I was warming up for the actual audition, which cause a bit of consternation. Luckily, the audition committee was in a separate room for the audition so they didn't have to witness me dabbing the blood off my lip and mouthpiece between pieces.

Man, am I glad that's all over with.

Anyway, if you live around Seattle and want to hear some good old classical music, be sure and check out the Seattle Phil and Lake Union Civic Orchestra, my two orchestras. LUCO's doing the entire Firebird ballet with the Tacoma City Ballet this year... should be good.