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Flatspace Soundtrack Albums Coming Soon
The two Official Soundtrack albums for Flatspace are coming soon to Steam.
Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) is the original soundtrack album sold on CD back in the early days of Flatspace. Only a handful of CD-R copies were ever sold, these are valuable if you have one.
Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) was originally released in 2012 and includes alternative mixes of the music in the game, plus extra tracks including the 6 minute version of Journey Through Fractional Space; which was commissioned by a Flatspace fan.
Both albums will be released on March 27th. See the store pages for a full track list:
Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235660/Flatspace_The_Official_Soundtrack/
Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1235670/Flatspace_II_The_Official_Soundtrack/
Enjoy listening.
Mark
Classic Flatspace Released
Flatspace, the classic first game, has been released today for free.
Like my other Steam releases, the game engine has been updated, and features some new high-resolution graphics for modern computers plus the same controller support as in Flatspace IIk.
Get a copy here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1210780/Flatspace/
The original Flatspace game lacks some of the finesse and gameplay balancing of Flatspace IIk (what, no Machine Gun Ammo??!), but it will allow people, particularly new players, to explore and try the Flatspace universe.
Enjoy playing.
Mark
Future Pool Released
The latest Cornutopia game, Future Pool has been released today.
The new remaster features new high-resolution graphics, full controller support, a new soundtrack, and lots of gameplay enhancements. If you haven't yet tried Future Snooker or Future Pool, please take a look:
Future Pool:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177310/Future_Pool/
Radioactive, Future Snooker and Future Pool are perfect for the new "Remote Play Together" in Steam, which enables two or more players to enjoy local multiplayer games over the internet. Only one player needs to own the game to play against a friend in this way.
The game is available now for $8.99 USD with a 10% launch discount.
Mark
Flatspace IIk v1.05 Now Live
Flatspace IIk v1.05 is now live.
Here's a complete list of the changes:
-New game icon.
-New heading font.
-Slight adjustment to Flatspace IIk title image (and new image for Flatspace II - if that ever gets used).
-Removal of GUI Mouse Sensitivity to match the behaviour in Future Snooker and other contemporary games, pointer now naturally moves more slowly on larger screens.
-New credits text.
-Fix to accented character conversion in text files.
-Intro tunnel ending now synchronised with music as in classic Flatspace.
-The 'Press F1' message appears at the start of each game.
-Players of the same class now start in the same sector (in a fixed or seeded universe).
Some of these changes are in preparation for the free release of the first Flatspace game at the end of January 2020. More details to come.
Mark
FlatspaceIIk v1.05 Beta Available
As with previous updates, this changes are largely small engine updates so won't affect gameplay, and will preserve save game integrity.
-New game icon.
-New heading font.
-Intro tunnel ending now synchronised with music as in classic Flatspace.
-Slight change to 'Flatspace IIk' image.
-Removal of GUI Mouse Sensitivity to match the behaviour in Future Snooker and other contemporary games, pointer now moves more slowly on larger screens automatically.
-New text & red background on the Credits screen.
-Fix to foreign character conversion in text files.
-The 'Press F1' message appears at the start of each game.
If everything works, the new update will go public in a few days.
Mark
Future Snooker Coming On November 15
Future Snooker is all set for release in two weeks on Friday November 15.
This is one of my finest games of my 20 years of game development, Future Snooker has been remastered for 2020 with new hires graphics, a new 12-track soundtrack, plus all of the latest updates to my game engine, full controller support, and more.
Future Snooker is a snooker game played on a circular table that has all of the tactical play and skill of real snooker. A perfect game for Steam's Remote Play Together feature, the game supports up to six players, any of which can be human or computer opponents, as well as a solo player tournament, and lots of customisable rules. A perfect couch multiplayer game.
Here is the Steam store page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1177390/Future_Snooker/
Available from November 15th for $8.99 with a 10% launch discount. Wishlist your copy today.
Mark
Future Snooker Coming Soon
Future Snooker, the third Cornutopia release for Steam, is being prepared for release this November.
Future Snooker is a sci-fi style snooker game played on a circular table that has all of the tactical play and skill of real snooker. This is a perfect game for Steam's new Remote Play Together feature, and supports up to six players, any of which can be real or human, as well as a solo player tournament, different computer opponent personalities, plus a choice of tables and customisable rules.
Set for release on November 15th. Store and other details coming soon.
Mark
Flatspace Music Pack 2 Released Today
The new Flatspace music pack is now released with a 20% launch discount.
This is the second pack of 9 new in-game music tracks to enhance Flatspace IIk. Like any in-game music for Flatspace, these will trigger at random when you enter a new sector.
The original Second Music Pack for Flatspace II was created in 2008, and included lots of game themes and tracks from the album Stupid
Computer Music, such as China Syndrome. Those tracks were catchy and energetic, like game title themes, so when working on this new pack I decided to compile music that inspired epic feelings of space exploration and excitement, so in the end Journey Through Fractional Space was the only track from that early pack that made it into this new set.
The nine tracks are:
Blue Nebula
This is a new remaster of a 2012 track that sets something of an epic scene.
Journey Through Fractional Space
Commissioned by a Flatspace II player, the brief was to create an action tune that crossed two existing tunes from the first game: Catacombs and Cobra. The full six minute version appears on the album Stupid Computer Music.
Pandora
Created in 2013 for the album Bites of Greatness, the idea for the track was to create a catchy piece of music reminiscent of game themes from the 8-bit era.
Rock-It 99
I wanted to emulate the feeling of race-game arcade music, and the result was this high energy track. Previously unpublished.
Sonus
This mysterious track is the opening track to part two of my 2018 release, A Walk in The Countryside. The eerie sound here is a perfect evocation of exploring a strange, new frontier, making it ideal for Flatspace.
Strange Angles
An odd time signature for an unusual piece of music inspired by a sculpture and composed for a 2019 album of ekphrastic music, Music of Poetic Objects. I had Philip Glass in the back of my mind while working on this.
The Dark Cliffs
I wanted to include some more expressive, naturalistic music in the pack and The Dark Cliffs is exactly that. The full track appears on my 2019 album, Tree of Keys.
The Glass Screen
This is an edit of the final track from my 2018 release, A Walk in The Countryside. The track is a strange blend of electronic game music and acoustic piano music. The full album track includes electronic vocals.
Trax
A high energy track from Bites of Greatness.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020370/Flatspace_Music_Pack_2/
Mark
Flatspace Music Pack 2 Coming Soon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020370/Flatspace_Music_Pack_2/
Flatspace Music Pack 2 In Development
Thought you might like to know that the second Flatspace Music Pack D.L.C. is now in development. Unlike the first pack, most of the content will be new to Flatspace, and will include a mix of tracks to add variety to the in-game soundtrack. The store for the Flatspace Music Pack 2 will be live soon and the release is planned for June 27th at $3.99 plus a 20% launch discount.
More details will follow in a couple of weeks.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/585430/
Mark