SMX Goes Live I am pleased to announce that Sound Media Xtreme is now officially in business. There is a lot of polish work to be done with the website and EPK, but the important information i...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 03/05/2007 (5:57 pm) Comment 5 comments

Over the past couple of months I have been busy juggling about 100 different things. With GDC 2007 coming up in a couple of weeks, I thought I would share what has been going on. [b]Sound Media Xtr...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 02/12/2007 (11:49 pm) Comment 15 comments

It has been a while since I posted a blog about anything to the community, mostly because I have a lot going on. I thought I would share what is on my plate and hopefully generate some interest in som...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 01/08/2007 (6:43 am) Comment 12 comments

First off I want to thank everybody at GG who gave me the opportunity to do a bit of sound work on TGE 1.5, I am glad it is out. A lot of talented associates and employees worked hard to bring the com...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 10/25/2006 (9:45 pm) Comment 2 comments

Now that the FPS Environment Pack has been released, I will go into a bit more detail about sound design using specific examples from the pack. For those of you who have been living under a rock, here...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 09/08/2006 (5:47 pm) Comment 10 comments

I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity to work with Todd Pickens on his upcoming environment pack. Thanks Todd for giving me the shot to show off my artistic capabilities. The following plan...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 08/24/2006 (7:10 am) Comment 9 comments

Update Ninjas vs. Pirates is moving along and the team has been growing. We have been scrutinizing the game and making changes both visually and programmatically. For the most part the project...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 07/25/2006 (3:33 am) Comment 18 comments

Update The team has just completed a series of updates to key components of the game. This was all done in an effort spruce up game play for beta 2. The big changes included modifications to t...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 06/03/2006 (5:02 am) Comment 3 comments

Update The beta 2 build is moving along and a lot of progress has been made. However due to the work that is needed to create a completely polished build, we will be delaying the beta 2 releas...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 05/19/2006 (5:55 am) Comment 2 comments

Update The primary goal of beta 1 was never to showcase the game, but rather to test the backend servers and netcode. Both have passed their tests and we are focusing on beta 2. No further enh...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 04/28/2006 (2:15 am) Comment 5 comments

Update As most of you are aware, we are in beta 1 and are working real hard at making Ninjas vs. Pirates the best game we can possibly make. A couple of days ago, DarkCombat Entertainment was ...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 04/19/2006 (10:47 pm) Comment 16 comments

Update DarkCombat Entertainment has spent the past week beta testing Ninjas vs. Pirates and while it has been fun, it has also been exhausting. We would like to thank all the beta testers for ...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 04/14/2006 (9:32 pm) Comment 8 comments

Update DarkCombat Entertainment is proud to announce that at 9:00PM PDT we will have the beta 1 build for Ninjas vs. Pirates available for download. All those who have signed up for beta will ...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 04/07/2006 (11:31 pm) Comment 6 comments

Update We are at the one week mark from the Ninjas vs. Pirates beta 1 release. Currently some aspects are going real smooth and others are not. Code clean-up has been moving right along, it ha...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 03/31/2006 (5:13 pm) Comment 6 comments

Wow there is so much to do and not enough hours in the day. We are very excited about the response we have received; the game website has been getting hammered. We can not believe some of the sites we...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 03/24/2006 (4:55 pm) Comment 7 comments

One of the hardest aspects to the project myself and my business partner have had to undertake has been balancing business and game planning. I am writing this to share my experience and hopefully hel...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 03/11/2006 (9:16 pm) Comment 3 comments

DarkCombat Entertainment has just released developer sound effects. Sound is an important element to the gaming experience and now developers can have professionally produced sounds at a fraction of ...

Author Jon Jorajuria Date 02/24/2006 (8:04 am) Comment 8 comments