My First iPhone Game: JAY & S...

This past week at Comic-Con 2012, Kevin Smith (director of CLERKS, MALLRATS, CHASING AMY, etc.) introduced two new iPhone/iPad games to an unsuspecting crowd of fans. One of those games featured music I composed just a couple of weeks ago. JAY AND SILENT BOB: LET US DANCE! is a rhythm game not unlike Guitar Hero where you push colored buttons to the beat in order to keep Jay (Mewes) dancing. There are three songs with various tempos you can choose from to play the game. I composed two of the three songs. They're titled "Torque Wrench" and "Tomorrow Knows."

I was offered the gig a mere two weeks ago when Adrian Glover, a producer over at GameSalad (the team hired to create the game) here in Austin, called me up to see if I would be interested in scoring it. He produced THE CHILDREN'S WAR (2010) which I scored several years ago. It was a super-quick turnaround. I was given a week to produce the two tracks but I had some other things to finish up so I only spent about four days working on them. Matt mixed both tracks.

It was a fun project. I had never written music to an iPhone video game before. Plus I was able to really open up and create some fairly intense techno beats which I don't normally get to do in a film. "Torque Wrench" had a strange Depeche Mode/Prodigy influence with a screaming 80's metal hair-band guitar solo thrown in for good measure. "Tomorrow Knows" had its roots in 90s indie rock with some harder beats thrown in. I really enjoy both tracks.

Here is a video showing Jason Mewes demonstrating the game at Comic-Con.



And here is an article written by Billy Garretsen of GameSalad about the story behind the creation of the game.