Cosmic Traveller

In a distant region of space, you fly through the panoramic vistas of the interstellar distances, through scenes of beauty and chaos.

Controls: Mouse to look around, WASD and arrow keys will let you move about your flight path.

Maximise the view by clicking the BLUE expansion arrows to the bottom right of the game window.

If you lose your cursor press Esc until it comes back. Esc also minimises the view.

For this project I worked with 2 game developers to create a music-video-game. These 2 guys really made my mission come alive.

Doctor Duck - See more on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/doctorduck

Victor Weidar - See his portfolio at his website: http://www.victorweidar.com/portfolio

VCPenguin - See more creative works over at http://www.verticalcircus.com

To play in full screen on your browser follow this link.

This project was really fun I've made a little video breaking down on how I created the audio for this game.

(Doctor Duck, 2017)

Here is more information on how to use a ghost channel to trigger your side chain. This allows you do get a much better pump from your side chain signal.

(Kelaita, 2014)

Here is the James Dymond tutorial on creating psytrance bass lines that inspire the bass line for Cosmic Traveller.

(Sonic Academy, 2016)

For more information on the filter section of the LFO Tool check out this tutorial below. Using this I created the formant shifting sound used in the acid line in Cosmic Traveller. I highly recommend watching the entire series from SadowickProduction as you can learn how to use this very powerful tool.

(SadowickProduction, 2014)

Here is a tutorial video on mixing in mono enhance your bass frequencies. From this video and information from Ash Hanson I've implemented a split mono and bass bus combined with stereo upper frequencies in this track. This really helps the bass fit in the mix and sounds really good on a big system.

(MixbusTV,2015))

I've loved working on this project it's taken many hours but I am very pleased with the result and sincerely hope you enjoy playing it. Some of the challenges I faced with this project was creating a loopable track that could repeat infinitely without sounding like the track just restarted. The I am really proud of the way this project came out. Victor and Penguin were awesome to work with, they are very talented games developers who turned this project around fast and brought my vision to life.

References

Doctor Duck. (2017, December 2). Cosmic Traveller Walkthrough [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Ih4J_lJQsCs

Kelaita, J. V. (2016, January 18). Using Sidechain Compression to Get Your Track Pumping[Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuZRl8ZzIY

MixbusTV. (2015, May 23). STEREO BASS, DEALING WITH LOW FREQUENCIES IN MID SIDE MONOIZING [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMV70HX46g

SadowickProduction. (2014, August 27). LFOTool Tutorial Part 04 - Filter Section [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQRvHEinRBI

Sonic Academy. (2016, January 8). How To Make Progressive Psy Trance James Dymond - The Bass [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuXZgcTpYKk