A continuously evolving abstract composition on a 320×176 canvas, produced by dynamically blending a series of random image layers. For Windows.

Download : art-thing.zip

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Dagion – a 2D platformer game that was originally made for the TIGSource AGBIC competition in 2010. It’s been lurking untouched on my hard drive in an almost complete state for quite some time now,  but I figured it was worth tidying up and making availble.

More info and download here.

More sounds from the archives. This is a full set of percussion samples recorded from a PSS-560 PortaSound keyboard produced by Yamaha in the ’80s.

18 PCM sounds sampled at 48 kHz in 16-bit WAV format.

Download: pss-560_percussion_samples.zip

A collection of 12 atmospheric drones and soundscapes, originally created as assets for the Assemblee competition hosted at TIGSource.

The sounds are all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so you can use them for whatever you want as long as you give me a mention.

30 second previews of all the sounds.

Download from Freesound.org.

I made a little Windows app to test out some code for randomly generating simple islands to be used as the basis for a tile map in a 2D game. Essentially it’s just recolouring some fractal noise generated with a standard midpoint displacement algorithm with a few added tweaks.

Download: islands.zip

In this instance a 128×128 array is seeded with a random value every 16 rows and colums then each 16×16 square is filled in using the midpoint displacement method.

Seeding the border with zeroes before filling in the 16×16 squares guarantees that the result is always an island completely surrounded by water.

Setting the central point to the maximum value makes the generated islands a little more consistent. To ensure that every part of the generated terrain is accessible to the player I remove any isolated sections by performing a simple flood fill from the center in order to identify any disconnected points above the water level.

Finally a boundary of shallow water is added around the coastline to make things look a bit nicer.

A complete set of drum loops sampled from a Yamaha PSS-80 keyboard in 48 kHz 16-bit WAV format.

The device features the following preset rhythms using synthesized bass drum, snare and hi-hat sounds: 8 beat, 12 beat, 16 beat, march, samba, swing, tango and waltz.

Download: pss-80_rhythm_loops.zip

Here’s a soundfont I made a while ago of the “piano” sound from a Casio VL-1 keyboard.

All 53 notes in the instrument’s range are individually sampled at 48 kHz from the VL-Tone’s line output – so you can recreate the authentic sound of this classic vintage instrument.

Download: vl-tone_piano.zip