Laserschwert

Finally, some bad guy music (and cracking the album's 30 minute mark), with Ransacked Apartment, which is a track that combines the apartment cue with Kerner's theme and the "German Wizard Splits Atom" newspaper cue. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

I've added yet another track, The Kiss, heard when Indy frees Sophia from the prison cell in Atlantis and the two get smoochie: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

One part of my contribution to the box design was cleaning up the USA map that's seen on the back of the box. The idea was for me to upscale the original game's background, while Steve would just provide a few little icons to represent the different locations in the game, as he wouldn't have time in his schedule to re-paint the whole map. Right away it was clear, that those pesky longitude/latitude lines would never upscale cleanly, so my first step was to paint those out: Easy enough, right? Let's get to upscaling (correcting the non-square-pixel aspect ratio while we're at it)! Eww... well, clearly this wouldn't work, neither with the text overlay nor Sam & Max themselves. Luckily, Steve offered to repaint those overlays as well, so back to the original background, to give Steve some space to work his magic. Recreating the game's ugly banding was actually harder than I expected, but after all it turned out fine. Back to upscaling! Ah, much better. Using a combination of different ESRGAN models allowed me to not only get nice outlines, but also reign in the banding, which I so faithfully re-created. Ah, well. But this was still looking a bit too clean, so it just made sense to add a bit of a brush texture overlay. Yes, that'll do. For the coordinate grid, I just recreated the lines at high resolution. Now comes the real magic, once Steve adds his overlays. It still boggles my mind that so many years later, we are getting brand-new HTR art from Steve Purcell! Steve also added the brushy lines and scribbles along the route... ... and Jake then wrangled it all into a beat-up, folded map, tying it all together for the back of the box. The end.

I think the game requires quite a beefy PC, so if you don't have that, it's probably the most expensive option, followed by getting an Xbox. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is a game streaming service that costs something between 10 to 30 bucks a month, and only needs a fast and stable internet connection to stream Xbox games to your PC/tablet/phone/VR headset/smart TV. I think a few games don't even need a paid subscription (like Fortnite), so those might be a good way to check if streaming works for you. I've never tried it myself, but according to different reviews, the experience might vary. It seems to be the cheapest option though. I don't know if renting consoles and games is still a thing? I know in the 90s and 00s it was possible, and a cheap way as well. But ever since consoles required actual online accounts that tie a console to a player, it's probably become a bit more complicated.

There's always Xbox gamepass to stream the game to any hardware (even a lot of smart TVs). You just need a good internet connection.

Even though I somehow don't manage to get much traction for this soundtrack, I've added yet another track: Crete Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

Same. And in no way will I be able to wait until spring to play this on my PS5. Luckily my WFH machine is quite a beast, and I just successfully set up Steam Remote Play to stream the game to my laptop downstairs, hooked up to my 82'' TV. This will be glorious!

Gordy Haab's soundtrack album releases tomorrow, with samples already up at Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/nz/album/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-original-video/1783178826

My latest addition: The Statue & Kerner's Escape Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

Which, I'm sure, some on this forum have.

One of my biggest tracks yet, the work-in-progress of "Monte Carlo Car Chase": WIP and Stuff by Laserschwert By the way, for this, I bit the bullet and got Infinite Woodwinds as well. They work and sound SO much better than Hollywood Orchestra. I guess now I need to update the woodwinds in several of the other tracks as well. EDIT: And it's finished! Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land

Both AV libraries are already reduced right now (from $449 down to $299) until the updated version (which will work without the full version of Kontakt) releases, so I can't blame him for not reducing them further for BF. But besides sounding amazing, IB is so much easier to use than all the other libraries I tried.

A little peek at the theme I'm currently working on, which is actually used in several places in the soundtrack, in different arrangements (when Kerner steals the statue, during the car chase through Monte Carlo, and when Indy and Sophia escape from Atlantis). This is closest to the third variant. WIP and Stuff by Laserschwert When he steals the statue and escapes from Indy's office, we hear a "smaller" arrangement, which makes sense, as it is only a short brawl, not a big action setpiece. The car chase on the other hand uses slightly different instrumentation and a few bridge passages, to accomodate for a longer track .

So do I, but I never made that connection. I mean, it's similar, but that's about it. I guess it's just a basic pleasant chord progression.

I've polished a few of the tracks even further, and added another one: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (fan soundtrack) by Clint Bajakian, Peter McConnell, Michael Z. Land