Here it is, folks.

My latest game in the Off-Peak odyssey has arrived. Dive in!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/

And a demo is available, too, if you want to get a taste of the experience.

And the standalone soundtrack is available, too!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1288050/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1_Soundtrack/

On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?

Thank you to all the fans who have been enjoying my work all this time. Hope you enjoy the new one!

Earlier this year I posted a screenshot teaser for the game I've been working on since I finished The Norwood Suite. But now the timeline is set and the release is imminent: Put it on your wish-list: Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 is coming soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1129920/Tales_From_OffPeak_City_Vol_1/

About the game:

It’s a hazy Sunday morning on the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street. Caetano Grosso, a former saxophone player and longtime pizza-maker, is just getting his pizza oven warmed up. Orders are trickling in, and he needs someone to help with the deliveries. You sense an opportunity, but unbeknownst to him, what you’re really after is his old saxophone, and you’re going to get it one way or another. Your pursuit will set off a chain of events across the neighborhood, taking you deep into the hidden worlds and private lives of the people living there.

Tales From Off-Peak City is a first-person adventure game series, all set on, around, and under a single street corner. Filled with memorable characters and the spaces they inhabit, the game provides an open-ended world full of secrets and hidden agendas. Building on the gameplay foundations of Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite, players will explore the streets and its surroundings, make pizzas, take photos, push buttons, open drawers they’re not supposed to, and lose themselves inside the atmospheric musical score that integrates itself directly into the game world.

Volume 1: Caetano’s Slice is the first game of many in the anthology of Tales. While each ‘Volume’ is its own self-contained story and experience, taken together, they build towards the larger over-arching narrative of what’s really going on at the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street and what role you ultimately play in its fate.

My next game is called Tales From Off-Peak City. I'll have more to say on it as the year unfolds, but in the meantime, you can follow its progress on my Discord channel[discord.gg]. Watch this space...

Hello!

This week celebrates the release of the high-quality FLAC version of the Norwood Suite Soundtrack. The soundtrack now includes FLAC versions of all the tunes plus two as-yet-unreleased digital bonus tracks. You will find the FLAC files alongside the mp3s where the Soundtrack itself is installed. Enjoy new music in newer, higher quality! And for those of you who are curious and don't have the soundtrack yet, you can pick it up below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/716930/The_Norwood_Suite__Original_Soundtrack/


You can stay informed of moment-to-moment updates on my third game, as well as just chat with a ton of like-minded and creative folks, and stay informed of community events on the Cosmo D Discord channel! Access it here: https://discord.gg/Zf8CaA6

In honor of the release of The Norwood Suite on vinyl, I’m hosting a live internet radio broadcast on Friday, August 10th at 12pm-1pm Eastern Time.  It will take place on Discord, my new community server[discord.gg] for all things related to my games Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite and my as-yet-untitled third game, which is also set in the same universe. 

[discord.gg]The Discord channel[discord.gg] will be a repository of all manner of happenings around my work, as well as an opportunity for fans of my work to connect.

The internet radio show coming up will feature select music that’s inspired me and the making of The Norwood Suite, including alternate versions of the Norwood Soundtrack and some new jams I've been working on.

Hope you can listen in, and in the meantime, feel free to connect and check in on the progress of my next game on my Discord channel[discord.gg]!

[discord.gg]-cosmoddd

The Norwood Soundtrack is on vinyl and it is a glorious thing to behold. The label Ghost Ramp[www.ghostramp.com] is putting it out and you can pick up pre-orders HERE[ghost-ramp.myshopify.com]

Bring the deep grooves of the Norwood Suite soundtrack into your hifi... (it does sound really tremendous!!)

[ghost-ramp.myshopify.com]And of course, you can play The Norwood Suite (or it's free demo) here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/696480/The_Norwood_Suite/

Hi,

Just a heads-up that now through July 5th, The Norwood Suite is 50% off. That brings the price of the game down to 5 bucks, flat. A good deal, I'd say.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/696480/The_Norwood_Suite/

Also, I've made a creator page here where I'll be consolidating all of my released work to date, and keeping fans up to speed on my next game.

Here's a new still from what I've been working on.

Click to view this in motion.[cosmodmusic.com]

And so, as the eclectic artistic energy of Berlin fades into the rearview, the next game starts to emerge.

See the above screenshot in motion.[media.giphy.com]

Reiteration of intent:

The game is set on and around a city street intersection, in the same universe as Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite. There will be plenty of secret passages, nooks, crannies and unexpected shortcuts to discover, all of which reveal the intertwining stories of the neighborhood.

The game will offer refinements of the gameplay found in Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite, though one or two new layers of gameplay will be folded in.

Music will play a central role in gameplay and narrative. The music implementation from Norwood, via the characters' "voices," will continue in this game.

Game 3 is officially in development. Watch this space and @cosmoddd on Twitter or my Tumblr page[cosmod.net] as I continue to reveal new elements.

Hi,

Late last month I had the opportunity to go out to Berlin, as The Norwood Suite was up for an award at the annual A.Maze Games Festival. I'd submitted my game on a whim, thinking the fest would be a particularly fit for The Norwood Suite. Turns out I was right, as I won the award for 'Best Long Feature!' Thank you, Berlin!