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New Casual Games Release Date/News Site

I've started up a website to help casual/indie game developers get the word out about the games they're working on.

Author Matt Sayre Date 10/05/2009 (1:10 pm) Comment 5 comments

What makes a sound effect bad?

Note- This comes from my game audio blog at [url]gamenotes.org[/url]. I like to bring relevant articles here from time to time for the GG community to get some use out of. Does this ...

Author Matt Sayre Date 09/25/2008 (6:25 pm) Comment 2 comments

How to talk to composers.

Note: This is the latest post from my game music blog for developers and composers at [url]gamenotes.org[/url] [image]thegamecomposer.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/836929_talk_to_me.jpg?w=225&...

Author Matt Sayre Date 07/07/2008 (8:23 pm) Comment 6 comments

How to get started as a game industry composer.

Note: This was posted at my blog [url]gamenotes.org[/url]. I posted it here because it deals with my history with GarageGames and also should help aspiring composers get their start. As prom...

Author Matt Sayre Date 06/25/2008 (8:46 pm) Comment 2 comments

Are you a com-poseur?

[i]Note: This is the latest post from my blog, The Game Composer's Blog ([url]www.gamenotes.org[/url]). I'm posting it here to help kickstart that blog. And I think it is quite relevant to the GG com...

Author Matt Sayre Date 06/23/2008 (7:44 pm) Comment 2 comments

New game music blog

I've finally started the blog that I've been thinking about for quite awhile. Since starting my career 8 years ago, I wanted to have someplace to write about my adventures in the game industry as an a...

Author Matt Sayre Date 06/20/2008 (8:29 pm) Comment 2 comments

Lessons from MLB All-Star Fanfest.

I spent the last week down in San Francisco helping to man the Backyard Sports Baseball booth at the MLB All-Star Fanfest. I helped hand out lots of free stuff and watched tons of people, kids mostly,...

Author Matt Sayre Date 07/13/2007 (6:36 pm) Comment 7 comments

Eets: Chowdown on XBLA and TubeTwist in stores!

This morning Eets: Chowdown was released on Xbox Live Arcade. Normally, I wouldn't care so much about a game coming to XBLA, but this is the first XBLA game I worked on so I'm pretty excited. They kep...

Author Matt Sayre Date 04/25/2007 (5:34 pm) Comment 8 comments

SFX484 launch and new game

First off, I'm happy to say http://www.garagegames.com/products/137/ has had a great first two weeks. I'm very...

Author Matt Sayre Date 12/27/2006 (11:35 pm) Comment 4 comments

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...

Author Matt Sayre Date 09/12/2006 (10:13 pm) Comment 4 comments

A new studio, Casuality & IGC, Puzzle Poker, etc.: an update

"What I Did This Summer" by Matt Sayre (in progress) Well, after months of looking we finally found a new house in the crazy Seattle real estate market. One of the best features of the house is its...

Author Matt Sayre Date 07/11/2006 (10:33 pm) Comment 8 comments

Plan for Matt Sayre

My tuba is out there.

Author Matt Sayre Date 01/29/2005 (9:28 am) Comment 0 comments

Plan for Matt Sayre

GravRally music: Coherent or not?

Author Matt Sayre Date 10/20/2004 (11:16 pm) Comment 9 comments

Plan for Matt Sayre

Life is random and indie games rock.

Author Matt Sayre Date 04/27/2004 (6:26 pm) Comment 5 comments

Plan for Matt Sayre

2003 IGC Indie Jam MP3's

Author Matt Sayre Date 11/21/2003 (8:44 pm) Comment 1 comments

Plan for Matt Sayre

Myrmidon music and MSA's creation.

Author Matt Sayre Date 09/03/2002 (10:03 pm) Comment 0 comments