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2013 production & website relaunch!

Kyle A Ward bandcamp website

Kyle A Ward on Bandcamp

kyleaward.com (screenshot)

www.kyleaward.com

Today I’m pleased to share my new newly renovated website! www.kyleaward.com

The site contains a collection of my past project portfolio and will additionally feature various future media projects (video/music/video game) that I plan to produce or become involved with in the upcoming months. Why? It was part of my 2013 new years resolution to make an effort to actually maintain this site and produce new content for my followers. Think of it as the KAW insider network! 🙂

Are you a fan of any past video game projects that I’ve been involved with over the years? (In the Groove, Pump It Up Pro, iDANCE or the recent ReRave project? If so, do know that I plan to keep information recent and relevant relating to these titles in anyway that I can. Any relating news, discussions or “inside scoop” will be posted here in an unofficial way that represents and or ties in my personal statuses on them.

Lastly, I’ve decided to re-establish my solo music productions and maintain a monthly effort to release new content. Songs will be posted on this site as well as my newly established kyleaward bandcamp site. Along with music, I hope to additionally expand my scope by providing video productions and/or podcasts for your enjoyment. This will be an ongoing project for me as I constantly change or alter the content here.

Special thanks to my followers and friends who have continued to contact me and keep me motivated for new projects. I hope you will enjoy some of my new work as I continue to involve myself via multimedia expression.  Cheers!

Jenna Drey & Oscillator X perform “Summer Night in Seattle” on KING5 TV Seattle

Jenna Drey & Oscillator X recently performed Jenna’s new single “Summer Night In Seattle.” The performance was a big hit with Seattle 2012 Pride fest on June 24th and later on KING5TV’s New Day Northwest. Here is a video from the Monday morning KING5TV performance.

ReRave: RePlay Magazine May 2012


This is absolutely my proudest moment with any project. ReRave is featured on the COVER of RePlay Magazine!

ReRave featured in RePlay Magazine May 2012Big thanks to Chris Foy and our HARDWORKING team (and volunteers) ZiGZaG, Sven Magnus, Chris Cotty, Mark Cannon, Jordan Frederick, Jason Bolt, and Coast to Coasts: John Maurer, Gary Balaban, Paul Skroczky & Jenny Dumerve. Thank you for helping make this game a success that is quickly expanding beyond my wildest dreams. Truly an honor for me to have this in my accomplishment archive!

ReRave Arcade 1.0.4 this week!

ReRave BadgeIt’s been a very busy last couple months as I’ve worked with our software team to prepare our ReRave 1.0. 4 arcade patch for deployment this week.

Features in ReRave 1.0.4:

  • Attract time has been revamped and is now swift to attract new plays.
  • Coin debounce time improved based on location feedback
  • Improved wifi connection protocol & methods that could cause re-connections or phantom disconnections from Networks.
  • Location Name length; Machine location name can now use up to 32 characters for name entry.
  • Collection/Stats “Reset All” toggle no longer resets “Credits All-Time” value.
  • Fixed Profile “New Record” indicator on results screen from sometimes not showing when new personal records are achieved.
  • Improved motion background logic to improve frame rates during some menus
  • Huge Improvements to graphical performance and overall game-play frame rates!

Aside from these exciting improvements to the software, we’ve been working on A LOT of new music releases for the arcade & iOS.  We’ve also been following up with our player feedback via the ReRave Song Submission form.  Be sure to check it out and suggest songs that you would like to see in ReRave!

The weather continues to improve here in the Northwest for the Spring season.  It’s nice to see some sun every now and then!  🙂   OK… Back to work for me!

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Because of my work schedule with ReRave and Oscillator X it has left me with very little time to maintain this website.  Well… I’m going to try to change that!
Within the next few weeks I hope to finally work on this site and give it a much needed update.  It is my plan to also include more of the  “behind the scenes” of my life (for anyone who cares) so that people can get to know me better and get the inside scoop to things I work on.  Recent emails have indicated that I’m not doing a very good job of keeping people updated with “stuff.”  I’m sorry!  🙂

What does that mean?  I hope to turn this more into a personal reflection of topics and posts that relate to me or various things I work on.
Hoping to include Youtube  links and make an effort to make a weekly post.  More to come…  (hopefully)