Beyond the Iron Sky

Even though running Energia Productions is very much a full-time job for us, we do sometimes find the time for side projects - each according to their skills. For my part, I was delighted when a fun fellow named Aleksi Eeben asked me to contribute to a computer game he was making - for the Commodore 64, no less! The game in question, Redrunner, is the sequel to his earlier award-winning Greenrunner (can you see the pattern here?). Both are rather hectic action games in the old-fashioned, fast and shallow way, and very fun to play (though you do need an emulator like VICE).

My part in the proceedings? Voice acting, of course. Aleksi’s game features cool graphics (for a C64 - there are many nifty little details), top-notch music, and appropriately arcade-ish sound effects - and speech. Though I humbly acknowledge the superiority of The Voice of Greenrunner, Elaine Walker, I must say Aleksi has managed to make my voice sound surprisingly good through the SID chip. Finally I have realised my childhood dream of being part of a C64 game project!

If you’re into this sort of stuff at all, you can do a lot worse than to check it out now - and remember, these days it’s fashionable to be “retro”.

Update: The title screen with great retro music and Antti’s smooth voice:

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