A World of Fat
In recent months we've continued to provide audio services to Multimedia Games here in Austin. We are their audio department and do everything from music in any style imaginable to sound effects, to voice recording, to speaker selection, to cabinet design. We've also worked on The Incredible Hulk for Edge of Reality/Sega, Wits and Wagers for Hidden Path Entertainment, Scene It? Xbox 360 for Screenlife, some children's dance pad games for ImaginEngine, and some games we can't talk about yet.

Last fall George helped launch the Videogame Archive at the University of Texas Center for American History. They have already started collecting some of his materials. As George puts it, "The studio is getting cleaned."

As advisory board members for the Austin GDC we helped put together a very high quality, high level audio track and are hoping to accomplish the same this year. It's already looking very promising.

Interactive XMF, the only open standard, interactive audio file format specification was released in February for a three month public evaluation prior to release at the v1.0 level. As members of the IASIG working group, we have been working on this project since its inception six years ago and it's extremely gratifying to see the specification get out for review. The v1.0 release is scheduled for the fall of 2008.

Our conferences, Project Bar-B-Q (interactive audio), and Project Horseshoe (game design) continue to produce spectacular work. The attendees are brilliant and motivated. Hosting these events is incredibly rewarding.

And last, and perhaps least, we've formed a nerd rock band with some good friends. The rule is: You have to have a day job in the games business. We are The Captains of the Chess Team. It's loads of fun.

The Fat Man on Game Audio - Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness
Currently out of print. You'll have to buy a used one or borrow one until we can get it reprinted.