{"id":777,"date":"2011-09-11T11:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/wordpress\/?p=777"},"modified":"2016-06-21T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:09:36","slug":"september-10-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"September 10, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for being out of touch! We&#8217;ve been super busy in the studio over the past few months. Here are some recent highlights:<\/p>\n<p>1. Frontierville has been chosen as a finalist in the &#8220;Best Audio For An Online Game&#8221; category for the 2011 Game Developers Choice Online Awards. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconline.com\/news\/2011\/08\/finalists_revealed_for_2011_ga_1.html\" target=\"new\">More info here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Mike has partnered with HiFINESSE MUSIC and SOUND and is currently composing a number of epic tracks to be released for use in theatrical trailers. Current placements include THOR, True Grit, Black Swan, Red Riding Hood,  Captain America, Inception, Salt and more.<\/p>\n<p>3. Production on many games continues with additional upcoming and current releases. Look for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ds.ign.com\/objects\/113\/113744.html\" target=\"new\">The Penguins of Madagascar: Dr. Blowhole Returns<\/a>&#8221; on Nintendo DS with Mike&#8217;s music (contracted through SomaTone Interactive Audio). Another game to look for is <a href=\"http:\/\/pc.ign.com\/articles\/119\/1192046p1.html\" target=\"new\">War Commander<\/a>, a fun new Facebook RPG. Next, a new social game featuring Mike&#8217;s music (as well as guitar, mandolin and banjo picking) called &#8220;The Pioneer Trail&#8221; has been released. Last we checked, this game has 22,166,333 active monthly users! <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.games.com\/2011\/08\/12\/frontierville-pioneer-trail-preview\/\" target=\"new\">Here&#8217;s an overview<\/a>. Finally, there&#8217;s a successful new Big Fish Games downloadable PC hidden object game called &#8220;The Secrets of Arcelia Island&#8221; that Mike composed the music for. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfishgames.com\/download-games\/13956\/the-secrets-of-arcelia-island\/index.html\" target=\"new\">View and download here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few great titles that we are wrapping up on that I&#8217;m really proud of and look forward to sharing soon. Until then, enjoy the rest of summer!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for being out of touch! We&#8217;ve been super busy in the studio over the past few months. Here are some recent highlights: 1. Frontierville has been chosen as a finalist in the &#8220;Best Audio For An Online Game&#8221; category for the 2011 Game Developers Choice Online Awards. More info here. 2. Mike has partnered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraznick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}