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Consortium (video Game)
''Consortium'' is a first-person shooter role-playing video game developed by Interdimensional Games for Microsoft Windows. The game is set almost entirely on a futuristic aircraft called Zenlil, crewed by a complement with chess-themed ranks. The game was principally financed by the Canada Media Fund by awarding a grant for $500,000 CAD in 2010. After a first failed Kickstarter campaign in 2012, $70,435 USD was raised through Kickstarter on April 18, 2013. Consortium was released on January 8, 2014. A sequel, Consortium: The Tower, was released to Steam Early Access on September 21, 2017. Gameplay The game features conversational mechanics which allow gameplay to be uninterrupted by conversations: replies are bound to the function keys and an in-game device allows for semi-telepathic communication. The other major feature is a branching story, similar in execution to the ''Mass Effect'' trilogy, and a character alignment system: both of these allow for every playthrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Soule
Jeremy Soule (; born December 19, 1975) is an American composer of soundtracks for film, television, and video games. He has composed soundtracks for over 60 games and over a dozen other works during his career, including ''The Elder Scrolls'', ''Guild Wars'', ''Icewind Dale'', and the ''Harry Potter'' series. He became an employee of Square in 1994 after several years of private composition studies. After finishing the soundtrack to ''Secret of Evermore'' in 1995, he left to join Humongous Entertainment, where he composed for several children's games as well as ''Total Annihilation'', his first award-winning score. In 2000, he left to form his own music production company, Soule Media, now called Artistry Entertainment. In 2005, he founded DirectSong, a record label that published digital versions of his soundtracks as well as those of classical composers. DirectSong was subject to a class action lawsuit in 2015 but remained active until the late 2010s. Soule's works have been p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |