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CHRIS BALLEW Creates Musical Score for Quantum Conundrum
LOS ANGELES (June 19, in the year of our Lord 2012)
– Square Enix, Inc., the publisher of SQUARE ENIX® interactive
entertainment products in the Americas, announced that Chris
Ballew provides the score for the upcoming first-person
environmental puzzle game, Quantum Conundrum™.
Chris is the twice Grammy nominated songwriter and lead singer
for the four times platinum rock and roll band The Presidents of
the United States of America. He now writes songs for kids under
the name Caspar Babypants, who makes high quality, thoughtful,
acoustic sing-along songs for parents and kids of all ages to
enjoy together.
“I like making music for kids because I admire their inventive
imaginations, and as an adult I nurture that same creativity in
myself,” said Chris Ballew. “The gameplay, humor and art style
in Quantum Conundrum embodies that same sentiment.”
“Chris was our top choice to score Quantum Conundrum,” said Tom
Smurdon, audio director for Quantum Conundrum at Airtight Games.
“The team wanted someone who would be fun and quirky and would
really fit the style of the game. He's a ton of fun to work with
and all of that comes through in the music he writes.”
Developed by Airtight Games, Quantum Conundrum is now available
for pre-order on Steam® for Windows PC. The game will be
available on June 21 for PC and later this summer on the
PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment
system and Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft.
Quantum Conundrum is rated E for Everyone with Comic Mischief.
Please visit the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)
website at
www.esrb.org for more information about ratings.
About Quantum Conundrum
In Quantum Conundrum, players take on the role of a young kid
dropped off on his uncle’s doorstep for the weekend; his uncle
just so happens to be the brilliant, eccentric inventor,
Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. Upon entering the Professor’s vast
manor home retrofitted with crazy technology to test his latest
hypotheses, players quickly realize their uncle has gone
missing. Fortunately, players soon gain access to Professor
Quadwrangle’s latest invention, the Inter-Dimensional Shift
Device, which, at the press of a button, will shift the world
around them to an entirely new dimension. In order to find him,
players must use the newly found IDS Device to dynamically
change the world to and from a variety of different dimensions
to progress through the complicated Quadwrangle Manor. While on
the journey, becoming adept at utilizing the various dimensions
will help them trek from one bizarre and challenging room to the
next. It might sound easy enough, but it is a tall order for a
kid in a giant puzzle of a manor!