It's finally happened. Ley Lines has finally been Greenlit!

Now to be honest, it had been Greenlit a little more than a week ago, but I was waiting for the right moment to put up this post.

I just want to say a big, BIG thank you to all who came and voted, and expressed interest and all sorts. <3

The game will be released towards the end of Summer 2016 for free, and the soundtrack for the game will also be released for free on Bandcamp around the same time of the game's release.

And speaking of the game's soundtrack, the main theme of Ley Lines -- Light, Shine Down -- has been frontpaged. If you haven't already given it a listen, I would be glad if you do. ^_^

The game is at the end stages of being developed, as far as I am aware. In the way of music, I'm on the last track of the OST for it -- and I've got to say, what a ride it has been!

Throughout the month of June, Yasunori Mitsuda and Procyon Studio held a vocal audition, looking for an English-speaking vocalist to work with them. @Phyrnna told me about this audition and encouraged me to take part, and I mulled over the idea for a bit before finally deciding to do something. Then the second and third week of June passed without me doing anything due to sickness.

Then finally, on 27 June, I decided that enough was enough. I pushed through sickness and a wavering voice to record this audition entry.

This is actually a remake of Asperges Me, a track submitted against @Bosa for the 2012 NG Audio Deathmatch. I picked this song because I felt it covered my main range pretty well.

Knowing Mitsuda, he wouldn't care about how well-established someone is -- he is looking for the voice that works best with what he's doing at this point in time. With that in mind, I would be glad with whomever he chooses. The video is always there for posterity. It's the first music video I've done in recent times. My first proper one! I'm still overwhelmed with joy over having recorded it.

(Thanks to you, Chris, Jason and Seán, for helping me on that day.)

I have been enabled for livestreaming on YouTube. Now comes my big question: what would you like to see me livestream?

Please give me some ideas in the comments below, and I might do them.

Presenting the new Asperges Me. This is my face when I sing. The video was recorded as a voice audition for Yasunori Mitsuda. Regardless of whether or not I get in, I am glad to have this video for posterity. <3

This is actually a revisiting of a song that was written for the 2012 NG Audio Deathmatch. I never thought the day would come when a video like this would be done. I never even dreamed of it.........

Thanks to Chris, Jason and Seán for helping me out with this. I need to credit you folks properly on the YouTube video soon...

I am proud to announce that Asperges Me, one of my 2012 Audio Deathmatch pieces, is being remade and will have a video recorded at Soundskills this afternoon (tomorrow for some of you).

Many of you have listened to the original, and some of you may remember reviewing it.

I look forward to sharing the end result of the video session with all of you soon.

If you're Irish and in Britain, clap your hands.

If you're Irish and in Britain, clap your hands.

If you're Irish and in Britain, you have more rights than the British.

If you're Irish and in Britain, clap your hands.

Ooooohhhhh, irony is sweet. Very, very sweet indeed.

I FINALLY put up my lyrics video to the Ley Lines theme Light, Shine Down in a bid to entice listeners on YouTube to perhaps go check out the game. It probably isn't much, but it's better than nowt. : )

Sorry it took me so long. Video editor + connexion troubles and all sorts of things prevented me from putting anything up on YouTube -- I wanted better visuals than just a picture and some music.

In addition to all the musical work, I drew these images on MS PowerPoint (yes, you read that right). Hooking up a tablet and then opening PowerPoint adds on the Draw function, which, while buggy, does give a nice set of solid lines that I could use for sketching.

Hope you all enjoy it!

Hey everyone, Troisnyx here, and this is Ley Lines!

Back when I announced my 500 follower milestone I also skimmed over the fact that I'd been appointed composer for this game. How it happened still blows my mind, but this is the fruit of several months of hard work, from the part of the developers. The developers for this game sought me out both on Newgrounds and on my own webpage, and I saw the aesthetics of this game, I just got so compelled to say yes, and I wound up writing and singing and drumming.

The game is about a lone archer using multiple energies in a bid to restore the heart of Miria, an extremely powerful entity, which has been torn by war and misdeeds. This is a slightly more mature RPG platformer with puzzle elements.

Now, we are trying to get Ley Lines on Steam. If this game looks beautiful to you, please vote yes!

@TomFulp As much as I wish my art DID have that many reviews, I don't think that number is accurate.

Oh my. 500. Gosh, never thought I'd get there. Thanks, everyone. Just.... thank you so much.

So what's been going on?

There's a game for which I am writing music now called Ley Lines, and when I was shown an alpha video of it, I really liked what I saw. So far, composing music for this thing has been an enjoyable process. As more material about it gets revealed, I'll gladly reveal more about the composition process. 

Here is the alpha. As for concept art and development, I've found a blog that can be read here.

Also, a lot of Project Chaplaincy files that were lost back in 2014, which were found by Seán in March this year, are being restored. I'm already at the sixth file on that recently restored hard drive. So as a result, you'd see a lot of material being churned out by me.

Thirdly, Seán and I celebrate our engagement anniversary in two days. I am grateful to have him as a significant part of my life, and I long for the day when we finally get married.

EDIT: In light of 500+ followers, once my body recovers from its physical pains, I'll record that dance I was alluding to in a few earlier posts. That timbrel and those bells really need using.

I finally found the account name of the person whose music I saw without signing in back in 2009, which effectively was my first time stepping into Newgrounds. That user's name is @ForbiddenMemory.

@CaptKirky did quite a bit of prompting to me when we spoke with each other over my earliest memories of NG, and somehow, I went to Wikia, which is where ForbiddenMemory and I met under different usernames. I knew that he had music of his own, and so I looked up his links. His Newgrounds page was listed, and I saw The Icy Lands, the very first music track I listened to on here. See, seven years ago the two of us were part of a Kingdom Hearts fanon project, and we imagined up our own characters and our own background music based on what we'd learnt from the few games released then -- KH1, Chain of Memories and KH2. Shortly after listening to his work, he pointed me to @TheWeebl, which then pointed me to Weebl's Stuff.

It took me 7 years, but now I finally remember. Time to update all those statements, forum posts and interviews where I completely forgot who it was that brought me to NG first.

I have a tambourine that doubles as a frame drum, bells and semi-tribal clothes. I yearn to put them to good use.

What's stopping me is that I'm really self-conscious about anything I do; I fear that I'm a horrible dancer, or otherwise not appealing in some way, shape or form. But I cannot help but think that this is something that is good for me to share. I have a deep passion for drums and dancing, and I want to use it healthily. Performing publicly is something I've always yearned to do, even if I'd been shamed for it in the past. Even if I am dancing alone, I don't want to be afraid of people seeing me......

Should I dance?