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Ari Pulkkinen
Ari Pulkkinen (born 15 January 1982) is a Finnish video game composer, musician and sound designer. He is best known for his work on music for the ''Angry Birds'' series, mainly the song "Angry Birds Theme". Biography Pulkkinen was born in Helsinki. At the age of 6, he started studying piano and composed his first song at the age of 12. He was interested in the computer music demoscene and started making music with tracker software under the name "ArtZ" and "DJartz". He won many music competitions and made his first big public album to accompany a freeware game titled ''Starfight VI: Gatekeepers'' in 1999. Ari has never studied music composition academically. In 2003, he was hired as in-house audio director to game development company Frozenbyte Inc. Where he made the original soundtracks and sound design for video games '' Shadowgrounds'', '' Shadowgrounds: Survivor'' and '' Trine''. In his spare time, Ari earned diplomas in ''Professional Audio Design and Producing'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipality, with million in the Helsinki capital region, capital region and million in the Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan area. As the most populous List of urban areas in Finland by population, urban area in Finland, it is the country's most significant centre for politics, education, finance, culture, and research. Helsinki is north of Tallinn, Estonia, east of Stockholm, Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Helsinki has significant History of Helsinki, historical connections with these three cities. Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen—and surrounding commuter towns, including the neighbouring municipality of Sipoo to the east—Helsinki forms a Helsinki metropolitan area, metropolitan are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frozenbyte
Frozenbyte, Inc. (natively Frozenbyte ) is a Finnish video game developer founded in 2001 and based in Helsinki. , it had approximately 130 employees. Frozenbyte's first commercial game was ''Shadowgrounds'' for Microsoft Windows. Both ''Shadowgrounds'' and its follow-up ''Shadowgrounds: Survivor'' were released for Linux in 2009, ported by IGIOS and published by Linux Game Publishing. They and all their later games use an game engine, engine that has been known internally as Storm3D, originally by Finnish programmer Sebastian Aaltonen. Frozenbyte's next commercial game, ''Trine (video game), Trine'' was released in 2009 for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and has since been ported to Linux, OS X, the PlayStation Network, and Nintendo eShop. The game spawned four sequels, ''Trine 2'' which was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in December 2011, Linux in March 2012, and Wii U eShop in November 2012, and ''Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power'' which was releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Birds Seasons
''Angry Birds Seasons'' (formerly ''Angry Birds Halloween'') was the second puzzle video game in the ''Angry Birds'' series, developed by Rovio Entertainment. Based on ''Angry Birds'', ''Angry Birds Seasons'' was released for devices using Apple's iOS devices in October 2010, and later on Android devices in December 2010. The game got its final update on December 1, 2016 and, three years later in 2019, would be removed from the App Store and Google Play. ''Angry Birds Seasons'' was generally well received, with critics praising the game's seasons, while others criticized the game's steeper difficulty when compared to ''Angry Birds''. Gameplay Just as in the original ''Angry Birds'', players use a slingshot to launch an assortment of birds at nearby structures, with the intent of hitting targets located on or within them. The main targets are the pigs, and they can be defeated if directly fired at, or through other strategies, e.g.: the bird hits a structure that falls on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is a British orchestra based in London. One of five permanent symphony orchestras in London, the LPO was founded by the conductors Thomas Beecham, Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras. The founders' ambition was to build an orchestra the equal of any European or American rival. Between 1932 and the Second World War the LPO was widely judged to have succeeded in this regard. After the outbreak of war, the orchestra's private backers withdrew and the players reconstituted the LPO as a self-governing cooperative. In the post-war years, the orchestra faced challenges from two new rivals, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic. Founded respectively in 1945 and 1946, these orchestras achieved a quality of playing not matched by the older groups, including the LPO. By the 1960s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Stardust HD
''Super Stardust HD'' is a 2007 multidirectional shooter video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It was released on the PlayStation Network, with a PlayStation Portable version titled ''Super Stardust Portable'' releasing the following year. An HD remake for the PlayStation 4 developed by D3T was released as ''Super Stardust Ultra'' in 2015. In 2016, ''Super Stardust Ultra VR'', a PlayStation VR-compatible version that contains ''Super Stardust Ultra'', was released as paid downloadable content and a separate product in itself. The game combines the mechanics of ''Asteroids'' and '' Robotron: 2084'' with a level of action found typically in modern games such as '' Geometry Wars''. The game is an enhanced version of ''Super Stardust'', developed by Bloodhouse, a predecessor of Housemarque, for the Amiga; Sony acquired the rights to the game before remaking it. ''Super Stardust HD'' was the first title with trophy s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outland (video Game)
''Outland'' is a platform game developed by Housemarque and published by Ubisoft. The game combines two-dimensional platforming with a polarity system similar to Treasure's '' Ikaruga'' and '' Silhouette Mirage''. ''Outland'' was released on April 27, 2011 for Xbox 360. The PlayStation 3 version, which was supposed to be released the day before, was delayed because of the 2011 PlayStation Network outage then later released in June 2011. A Microsoft Windows version was released on September 29, 2014, followed by the Mac OS X version on December 21 of the same year, and the Linux version on February 25, 2015. The game was removed from sale on Steam and the Humble Store in December 2018; it was made available on Steam again in October 2020, before being removed again in April 2024. Gameplay ''Outland'' is a 2D platformer with action game elements. Gameplay mainly revolves around using Light (blue) and Dark (red) energies, which allows the player to pass through their respective bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trine 2
''Trine 2'' is a puzzle-platform game developed and published by Frozenbyte. It is the sequel to ''Trine (video game), Trine'' and was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 in December 2011, and later for Linux in March 2012. ''Trine 2'' allows three players to play the iconic roles of a wizard, a thief, and a knight in a simultaneous cooperative mode. A ''Director's Cut'' edition was released via the Wii U's Nintendo eShop, eShop on the console's launch day in all regions except Australia and Japan. The game was also released as a launch title for the PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe in 2013. On February 13, 2019, it was announced that a port to the Nintendo Switch would be released on February 18, 2019. A successor, ''Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power'', was released in 2015. Gameplay ''Trine 2'' is a puzzle-platform game, requiring the player to use the skills of the three characters, Amadeus the wizard, Zoya the thief, and Pontius the kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Nation
''Dead Nation'' is a 2010 shoot 'em up video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. ''Dead Nation'' takes place in a world afflicted by a zombie apocalypse. The player can choose between a male or female character and battle different types of zombies. ''Dead Nation'' was part of Sony's "Welcome Back" package, created to resolve the initial PlayStation Network outage. In February 2014 a PlayStation 4 version of the game titled the ''Apocalypse Edition'' was announced along with the PlayStation Vita version. The original ''Road of Devastation'' downloadable content was included for the PS3 and Vita versions, and the PS4 version was free for PlayStation Plus subscribers in March 2014. Gameplay Players are awarded score multipliers and money when zombies are killed. Money is used to purchase and upgrade weapons at checkpoints, and multipliers to grant better scores. Each time players are hit, they lose multipliers and heal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angry Birds (video Game)
''Angry Birds'', retrospectively known as ''Angry Birds Classic'', is a 2009 physics-based casual puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment, and the first of the '' Angry Birds'' series. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was originally released for iOS and Maemo mobile devices starting in December 2009, utilising touchscreen controls. By October 2010, 12 million copies of the game had been purchased from the Apple App Store and Nokia Ovi Store, prompting Rovio to port ''Angry Birds'' to various other mobile devices as well as to home video game consoles, personal computers and others by 2011. The gameplay of ''Angry Birds'' revolves around players using a slingshot to launch the birds at green pigs stationed in or around various structures, with the intent of defeating all of the pigs on the playing field. As players advance through the game, new types of birds become available, some with special abilities. Rovio supported ''An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sibelius Academy
The Sibelius Academy (, ) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities with roughly 1,400 enrolled students. The Sibelius Academy is the organizer of the International Maj Lind Piano Competition and one of the organizers of the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition held every five years in Helsinki. History The academy was founded in 1882 by Martin Wegelius as ' ("Helsinki Music Institute") and renamed ' in 1939 to honour its own former student and Finland's most celebrated composer Jean Sibelius. In 2013, the academy merged with two formerly independent universities, Helsinki Theatre Academy and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, to form the University of the Arts Helsinki. Between 2015 and 2017 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trine (video Game)
''Trine'' is a puzzle-platform video game developed and published by Frozenbyte. The game was originally released for Microsoft Windows in 2009, and has since been ported to Linux, OS X, and game consoles. The game takes place in a medieval fantasy setting and allows players to take control of three separate characters who can battle enemies and solve environmental puzzles. A sequel, titled ''Trine 2'', was released in 2011. A remake of ''Trine'', titled ''Trine: Enchanted Edition'', was released in 2014. The enchanted edition uses ''Trine 2'' updated engine, and includes online multiplayer. The third installment in the series, '' Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power'', was released on August 20, 2015. A fourth installment, '' Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince'', was released on October 8, 2019. A fifth installment, '' Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy'', was released August 31, 2023. Gameplay The player controls and switches between three different characters (a thief, a knight, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Survivor
Survivor(s) may refer to: * one who survives Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities * Survivors, characters in the 1997 ''KKnD'' video-game series * ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Foundation'', a fictional cult from Robert Muchamore's a 2006 novel ''Divine Madness'' Films * ''Survivor'' (1987 film), a film written by Bima Stagg * ''Survivor'' (2008 film), a film featuring Cyril Nri * ''Survivor'' (2014 film), a film featuring Danielle Chuchran and Kevin Sorbo * ''Survivor'' (film), a 2015 British spy-thriller starring Milla Jovovich and Pierce Brosnan * ''Survivors'' (2015 film), a British horror * ''Survivors'' (2018 film), a Sierra Leonean documentary * ''Survivors'' (2022 film), a Nigerian comedy * ''The Survivors'' (1983 film) * ''The Survivor'' (2016 film), a short about the 2014 APS Massacre Games * ''Survivor'' (1982 video game), a 1982 shooter game * ''Survivor'' (1987 video game), a 1987 8-bit action game * ''Survivor'' (2001 video game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
