Tom Jensen
@composertom
Composer and wargame designer. Composer for Blackheart, RED ECHO, REKKR, the Ruins of Calaworm, and Outer Ring MMO - www.tom-jensen.com Designer of Missile Threat, War by Sail, Lacquered Coffins, Hind & Seek, Ukraine 2022, Ostfront, etc.
Keep forgetting I have a bluesky account so this post is about a month out of date 😂 Great track though. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9BK...
Massive respect to the people of Iran. Huge protests over the past 2 weeks. Government buildings burned, entire cities under protester control, police joining forces with protesters. Total internet and phone blackout for the past 24 hours. Follow my threads if you want more info @tom_jensen_composer
Watching early Villeneuve movies - they're very intense and interesting. Incendies - re-living a middle eastern civil war ~1970s Enemy - quietly unsettling verging on very strange. Jake Gyllenhaal is awesome Prisoner - just started, Jake Gyllenhaal again, and Paul Dano PERFRECTLY cast...
New year - new music! Some fast-paced music in a kind-of-anime style for a friend with a super secret project! Having fun with guitars and minor 9th chords 🤯🤯 #gamemusic #music #anime
After 2 years of research and playtesting, I finally released my WW2 tabletop game. Covering ALL OF WW2. Yes, even Poland, China, Mongolia, Italy, North Africa, East Africa, Malaya, D-Day, Eastern Front, Pacific, and more! #WW2 #wargaming #wargames #tabletop site.wargamevault.com/product/5492...
IT AINT BREAD.... I got a baaaaad feeling about this one sarge #CCR #Vietnam #Breadthreads #Bread #music
War by Sail rules: Took me 9 months to research and playtest. My partner thought I was nuts entering in all the stats for like 1200 ships and adding up the points values on a calculator... nowadays I use excel for points values🤣 www.wargamevault.com/en/product/2...
Some more photos from last game. Next game (this time using the War by Sail rules) will be much more balanced. It's a fairly simple but accurate system. Ships take time to be worn down, and (generally) don't just magically sink in 1 turn. Each dice you roll is an actual gun on the ship too!
Played some age of sail wargames last month, and I'LL DO IT AGAIN this month. This time playing my War by Sail rules. Last time we used Osprey's Fighting Sail, but they're pretty whack... French 1st rates literally sailing rings around British 1st Rates. Physics doesn't work like that 😂
Rewatching the #StarWars #prequels - noticed this scene doesn't have any music - anyone have any idea why? seems like the kind of place where generally they would have some action score. Did they not have time to score it, or was it a deliberate choice not to have music? #filmmusic #music
Time to play some card games! Wait a second... I can't read Persian... 😳🤔👀 #cardgames #gaming
My threads reposts: >genocide >genocide >HANDY MICROSOFT EXCEL TIPS! >genocide >trump pooing his pants on live TV >genocide What a time to be alive 😨 At least I know how to use SEQUENCE now Also here are some scans of our cat Ayla. Scanning an object in motion can create unusual results...
I'm sure all my followers are strongly anti-genocide, but if you're a supporter of Israel, feel free to check out my threads reposts, where I am daily reposting the utter evil and horror inflicted by Netanyahu and those Israelis determined to exterminate Palestine: www.threads.com/@tom_jensen_...
Really enjoying the Night Dive System Shock 1 remake, so much fun to explore, and been so long that I barely remember anything from the original. Keep those fucking cyberspace sections away from me though, nearly quit on the last one. Nice they let you adjust the difficulty of those, but not in game
Holy shit, your Quake brutalist jam map looks amazing! Didn't know you did some sly Quake mapping 😅
#ImportantVideos here I demonstrate how to open a bottle with a roll of toilet paper. Might win you a bet some day. #MacGyver #Beer #Ingenious #Ingenuity #gamedev #indiegame #gamedevelopment #composer
More music from #RuinsofCalaworm! - this time music for the Plateau of Leng: a soft snow falls, you trudge onwards, the eye glasses of your plague mask slowly crystalizing with ice from your own breath... #indiegame #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gamemusic #indegamedev #music #mystery #NES #Snow
A music demo I wrote way back for @ubadler.bsky.social's #Archrebel - the game has come a long way since this (4 years ago!) - check out the latest on his page! #gamedev #gamemusic #indiedev #guitar #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #gamemusic
Richard was killed when his motorcycle collided with a truck in Central Otago in 2017, on his way back from the gun club (where he was the armorer). Pistols and ammunition sprayed all over the road as his panniers exploded. Here's a picture of him, with me on the left and my brother on the right
Remembering my step-dad Richard, who discovered a new species of Turtle and named it after Terry Pratchett! what a legend. He's on the left, explaining the fossil to Terry when he visited us. Richard was quite a character -PhD in geology, loved hunting, shooting, motorcycles, red-socks and sandals.
Discovered some videos of the #ruinsOfCalaworm soundtrack... never before posted for some reason. Currently preparing a talk for a conference next month, and these will come in handy! Viola played by Alan Starrett NES Synths from tb Peach & SAC #gamemusic #indiedev #gamedev #music #viola
A synergy of place and music - something just clicked, from back in October 2024
Meant to post these photos too - I think from Lost Battles. One day I'd love to convert it to a traditional measure n' move wargame