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Big news! I’m collaborating on a Piano Album to be released some time soon, featuring some of the best know music pieces from my career. Along with it (and as requested by many fans over the years), I will release the sheet music of all the music from the Album in 2 editions; for beginner and intermediate players. The first of those pieces (Giana Sisters) including excerpts of the arrangement and performance by Patrick Nevian is now available in both editions here:

http://chproductions.tradebit.com/files.php/3020-Music-Sheet-Music

Thanks also to Michael Stoeckemann (Sound of Games) for the score preparation!

Check out ‘hashtags’, a new track released by Chris Huelsbeck as a thank you for his Twitter fans and reaching 1000 followers:

A brand new iOS game with our music and sound has been released. GeoDrop is an addictive puzzle game:

Developer notes:

Release: December 20th 2011
Devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
Developer: Stefan Kögler
Music produced by: Chris Huelsbeck
Price: $0.99

Tired of always the same match-3 puzzle games? Here is the new challenge: Create clusters of blocks with the same color. 2 stars inside the cluster removes the cluster. Special blocks like bombs or joker helps you to accomplish this mission. To make the game harder: After some blocks a new row of blocks appear from the bottom of the playfield.

3 GAME MODES:
Classic: More and more colors, bombs and joker blocks – the full program!
Hardcore: The purist mode for the Constructors’ experts: Constant 4 colors – No special stones. But level rise is faster.
Action: Same as hardcore, but with 3 minutes time limit: For the little break in between.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Game Center Achievements: Get all 1000 points!
- Game Center Leaderboard for each game mode.
- 3 Exclusive music tracks produced by Chris Huelsbeck
- Universal app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
- Full HD / Retina graphics support

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geodrop-hd/id478344246?mt=8

Since today, our project “The War of the Worlds”, by Paramount Digital Entertainment and developed by Other Ocean Interactive is available on Xbox Live. The game features narration by Sir Patrick Stewart, who is best known for his role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Chris Huelsbeck Productions created a brand new music soundtrack for the game in collaboration with Sound of Games and we even recorded a full live orchestra in Macedonia. More info about the game and trailer videos can be found on the official Website: http://www.waroftheworldsgame.com

I’m very happy to announce that I’m invited to appear and speak at a special conference about Music & Soundtracks (mainly for Film, but now also for Games) in Cologne in early November. More details about the event are available on the official website: http://www.soundtrackcologne.de/

It’s time for another Soundtrack EP, this time for the Subsolar iPhone/iPad Game by Tenshi Noir that came out earlier this year. It contains all the music pieces from the game and an additional remix medley as well as a cool bonus piece by our friends “Relation Sound Composing Team” from Switzerland. Thanks also to Manus Buchart for the guitar recording and Tenshi Noir / Flowermilk for the awesome cover artwork!

You can get it on Amazon and many other online music sites:

http://www.amazon.com/Subsolar-Soundtrack-EP/dp/B005IKZBZG (USA)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B005ILZBR8 (Germany)

iTunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/subsolar-soundtrack-ep/id460518153 (USA)
http://itunes.apple.com/de/album/subsolar-soundtrack-ep/id460518153 (Germany)

The latest edition of the successful Amiga Immortal CD series is now available. Immortal 4 contains 2 full CDs of amazing brand new studio produced arranged music of well known Amiga game titles, often by the original composers of the classics. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to contribute directly this time due to other commitments, but nevertheless included is a cool new rendition of “The Desert Rocks” from Turrican 2, arranged by Daniel White. On a side note: The double CD was mastered by Pauler Acoustics, which was the same studio that finalized most of my CDs. The amount of detail and love that was put into this production is awesome and unprecedented – it’s really a must have for Amiga music lovers!

From the Producers Website:

After being in the making for more than 4 years, the 4th volume in the “Immortal” series is finally here! This massive double CD set has a playing time of 157+ minutes and can now be ordered from the MAZ Sound Tools online shop. You will also find preview clips for all of the 35 tracks on their website. The new album features arranged music from these games:

Atomino, Benefactor, Big Run, Cannon Fodder, Capital Punishment, Dangerous Streets, F17 Challenge, Fascination, Final Fight, First Samurai, Flashback, Flink, Fury of the Furries, Future Wars, Gauntlet 3: The Final Quest, Jaguar XJ220, LED Storm, Leisure Suit Larry, Lemmings, Liberation: Captive 2, Paradroid 90, Puggsy, T-Zero, Tales from Heaven, TFX, Turrican 2, Ultimate Body Blows, Walker, Wing Commander, Wolfchild, Zarathrusta, Zeewolf, Zeewolf 2: Wild Justice

We are proud to announce that we are composing and producing the music for the brand new game ‘Star Trek – Infinite Space’, published by ‘Gameforge’ and developed by ‘keen games’.  Below is the original press release, and more information can be found on the official site.

KARLSRUHE, Germany – February 17th, 2011, Europe’s leading publisher of online games, has announced today that the music legend Chris Hülsbeck will create the score for the browser based free-to-play game Star Trek – Infinite Space™ set in the Deep Space Nine timeline, which is set to be released in the summer of 2011.

The renowned computer game music composer became famous with his soundtracks for milestone games such as Turrican 2 and The Great Giana Sisters. Today, he can look back on 25 years’ experience in the computer games industry. In 2008, the Cologne based WDR Radio Orchestra performed ‘Symphonic Shades’, a classical re-interpretation in honour of his music. Hülsbeck marked the 8-bit era as one of its outstanding musicians and stands as an example for many of today’s DJs.

“This commission is a great honor, to work on a Star Trek product was a dream that has now come true,” Hülsbeck explains.

Ralf Adam, Gameforge’s Executive Producer, adds: “We are all very proud of being able to enlist such an outstanding artist. Chris Hülsbeck has decisively influenced a whole generation of computer games.”

A first taste of the soundtrack can be downloaded free from the website on the new extended media page at www.startrek-is.com. When the game is released in the summer of 2011, the entire soundtrack will be available as a free download – in line with the free-to-play-tradition.

I am proud to announce the latest game project with my music: “Subsolar” by indie developer Tenshi Noir Entertainment is an action-packet arcade game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, with full retina graphics and an intriguing new style of gameplay. The game, music and sounds are finely tuned to take the player on a hypnotic journey into deep space. Thanks to the team at Tenshi Noir and my good friend Manus Buchart for his awesome Guitar work…

Subsolar Trailer on Youtube

Have you got what it takes to get the Kobotos home?

The Kobotos are a race of cute little robots that have got themselves lost in a colorful but treacherous land. Armed only with a box of tools, your task is to help them get home.

Kubrik is a innovative and highly addictive new puzzle-platformer that will keep you entertained for hours as you navigate your way through 60 challenging levels in 3 beautiful worlds. The unique tool-switching gameplay means that you will need to use both skill and logic to make your way though, and each level will provide you with fresh challenges. Hidden tokens scattered throughout the levels will ensure that even if you can rescue all the Kobotos, there’s still much more fun to be had.

* Varied and innovative gameplay
* Intuitive tilt-n-tap controls
* Realistic physics
* Gorgeous 3d graphics
* Original soundtrack by composer Chris Huelsbeck.

Kubrik is availble in the iTunes App Store: http://ax.itunes.apple.com/app/kubrik/id403117523?mt=8