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Welcome to dummyworld.net, an online archive of odd bits and bobs created by myself, Blake Robinson. You can navigate between the different areas of the site using the menu bar at the the top. A hierarchy of each section can normally be found in the faded section of the site on the left.

28th October 2009 » It's nearly halloween
and I have done nothing this year :(

Apologies for no updates on the main page. However (as usual) the site has been updated in various places. You can keep track of all the latest content via the Last additions box on the left. I've added a few new pieces of music over the past month or so that you can check out.

I recently purchased the LASS sample library from AudioBro and its turned out to be an awesome addition to my studio setup. It's nice and dry sounding so you can add convolution/reverb to match your current libraries. It also has an extensive selection of articulations, full legato intervals and if that's not enough, the whole library is divisi allowing you to build up sections how you need. I can't recommend it enough to anyone who has the spare monkeys.

21^th August 2009 » Continuing to work on
Multivaders. We're getting ever closer to a demo release! Right now we're at an internal testing phase, with a small group of people regularly playtesting to work out the bugs and optimise the gameplay! Expect to hear more over the coming weeks!



Self-plug, but I also have an album out on Amazon called Cats make the best parents. It has a few weird tunes that used to be in the Music section of the website (as well as a couple new songs). Check if out if you've got the time :D

16^th July 2009 » My music workstation
died yesterday. The HDD containing all my samples seems to have broken and I now have the joy of reinstalling everything onto the replacement I've ordered.

Work has been commencing on Multivaders, and we're getting close to the stage of having a demo ready for people to play. More on this soon! I'll also post some more music I've been creating at some point this/next week.

10^th July 2009 » Lots of things going on
as of late. First up, I was recently interviewed by Igor Posavec of 3D-IO (producers of the 3D Studio Max plugin FlatIron). We sat down and discussed my game, Multivaders, the production workflow, challenges we've experienced and the future of indie games development. You can find the article here.

The Multivaders website is also up and running now and content is beginning to be pumped into it. We'll slowly be unlocking new information over the coming months, so keep checking for more updates (or subscribe to the RSS feed on the site). You can visit the Multivaders site at http://multivaders.com.

30^th May 2009 » Apologies if
you've been trying to contact me through the contact section. I had not been receiving anything and just noticed today that it has been sending to my old email account (which was being overrun by spam). This has been fixed now and I should receive anything you send.

The website for my game is now online. It's located at http://multivaders.com and contains info, screenshots and videos of the game. It will slowly build up over time revealing more of the back-story and game details.

As a small treat, here's a screenshot not on there. This is work-in-progress and doesn't represent the quality of the final product, and all that jazz.


And here's a video from the site showing the latest 'skirmish' gameplay. Skirmish is a 'quick play' mode in the game for people who like to jump right into the action. It has various gameplay modes - this video shows horde (think Gears 2).