We got tons of videos from prior games that we’ve done or that people been involved in at Databox Games. So we decided to put them on YOU TUBE and not just on our company web page. We put up some video clips from older stuff we’ve done such as Headbanger, Drinks, Physitive and so on. So head over there and have a look : )

Last Thursday I met and old friend of mind at the old game student floor. He asked for some advice about a poster that tells that he is a graphic artist searching for jobs. We talk and I helped as much as I could. On my way back to the Databox office I realized that Johan was great with music. He had made the ingame music for headbanger and the sound to the drinks trailer and remix of some enoying sounds. This was kind of frustrating because I had been searching for music person for a long time and started to get desperate so I directly took contact with him and a hour later we had agreed that he had the weekend to make a demo for us to see if he could create the kind of music we wanted for PoH. Later the same day a friend of mine hade find one music person that had time to help us to. One moment you have nobody and a second later you have to say no because you have too many.

On Monday he presented two songs made in 2 hours each on his laptop and I was over whelmed about the result.

(Jens continuous)
I agreed with Håkan. When I heard the songs Johan had made during the weekend I was very pleased, it was exactly what I had in mind for the music in PoH. I was so nervous when I pressed “play” to hear the music, -“what if this sucks or sounds like “Euro disco” (I do not trust Håkan when it comes to music :p). I’m a musician (worked as music producer), so I have told Håkan to talk to me before he said “ok” to the person doing the music for PoH.

At a meeting in late November or early December we had a meeting just about what kind of music that would be suited for PoH. We had so many different suggestions of music styles for PoH that we had to get together and decide what style to go with. At that meeting we all agreed on going in one direction on the music. That music direction has been the same since that meeting, but we haven’t got the right person to do the job before Johan came along.

* The music style in PoH will probably be shown in the first trailer/movie/teaser that we release in 1-2 month. So stay tune ; )

As briefly mentioned in another post, there were some other ideas for this game project. Mostly Nintendo DS games, mainly because we love it and some people have done games to it before (Drinks, Saving Santa and so on). But most of us wanted to do Penalty of Heroes and make it for the Xbox 360 (there was an idea to make PoH for the NDS). This because it felt like it was the right place/console to release it on and also:

- The strength/power in the Xbox 360
- Quiet easy to develop for XNA
- Very similar to make a game for the PC
- Distribution was easy through XBLA
- PC games disappear easy and is easily a victim for piracy
- The control (the Xbox 360 control felt right for this kind of game)
- The right target group (we think many of the people on XBL will enjoy a game like PoH)
- Might be easier to get some attention because it’s released for the Xbox 360
- We wanted to make a game for the Xbox 360 : )

There you have it : )

These last days Håkan have been at the game show Flippat in the southern part of Sweden in Malmö. He and some other students showed games that they have done such as Drinks for the Nintendo DS. Drinks was also shown at a huge outside big screen at the centre of Malmö. Other games that also were shown there were Red Alert 3, Mirrors Edge and Guitar Heroes World Tour. Here’s a clip that shows the Drinks video shown at the outside screen.

Have you heard of the game Drinks? It’s made some people here at Databox Games and developed for the hand held Nintendo DS. You play as a bartender in a city and learn how to mix drinks in different bars with different customers. Due to problem of getting a developer kit for the NDS from Nintendo the game haven’t been released yet. Have a look at the Drinks video below or check out more videos and pictures at Drinks website.

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