Christopher Jarvis's Blog, page 2
November 25, 2016
Escape Velocity Series 3 Finale Live!
On the 4th December, we will be celebrating with Lave Radio the finale episode of series 3 of Escape Velocity and you're invited! Escape Velocity is our full-cast audio drama, based on Elite: Dangerous and funded by you and other listeners via Patreon.com.
On the day of the final episode, series creator Christopher Jarvis will be streaming live via Twitch.tv/LaveRadio from 12pm GMT through to the episode premiere at 9pm and probably hanging about afterwards to play games and talk about the episode and the series!
On the stream will be special guests, fun with games including Elite: Dangerous, prizes and the chance for latecomers to join in with the Patron-only rewards via our donation page. You can get some great backer-only items and help fund future episodes of Escape Velocity.
12pm onwards, 4th December, Twitch.tv/LaveRadio. Last one there gets marooned on a planet by a clone agent.
October 28, 2016
The Great Pumpkin is coming! Halloween sale across the whole store!
Until the end of 31/10/16 you can get 15% off our ENTIRE range by using the code HALLOW15 on checkout. That includes all versions of Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures AND our brilliant Escape Velocity T-Shirts and Travel Mugs!
50% off Forced Entry this Halloween Weekend!In addition, the excellent full-cast audio horror short Forced Entry written by Sun Dragon author and Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes is 50% off for the entire weekend. Forced Entry is a Mil-Tech Horror story about a group of special forces operatives called to a rescue. Instead of a hostage situation, they discover blood, demons and a whole world of terror in the basement...
Click here to visit our store and remember the code HALLOW16! This weekend only!
50% off Forced Entry this Halloween Weekend!In addition, the excellent full-cast audio horror short Forced Entry written by Sun Dragon author and Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes is 50% off for the entire weekend. Forced Entry is a Mil-Tech Horror story about a group of special forces operatives called to a rescue. Instead of a hostage situation, they discover blood, demons and a whole world of terror in the basement...Click here to visit our store and remember the code HALLOW16! This weekend only!
September 26, 2016
Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures Now Available for Pre-Order
After a great fun Kickstarter campaign and a schedule of recording and post-production, we're pleased to announce that the first instalment of the official full-cast drama Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures is now available for pre-order and the episode will be released on the 30th September!
Chaos Reborn - "A Unicorn Murder" CD CoverThe audio drama is available in our store as an MP3 download for £9.99 and as a physical CD (with free immediate audio download included) for £13.99.
"A Unicorn Murder" is the exciting new videogame adaptation from the producers of Elite: Escape Velocity. Featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace) and Samantha Béart (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and based on Julian Gollop's game of Wizard battles.
Click here to pre-order Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures.
The wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master. Broke and desperate for new equipment, Dagan finds himself in the Unicorn-racing town of Mana Falls, where intrigue, murder and suspicion lie around every corner.
When a high profile member of the community is murdered, Dagan finds himself as the prime suspect. Will the wizard's mission be overturned by humanity's laws - and can Dagan determine his own fate before marauders, banishing charms and goblins decide it for him?
Chaos Reborn - "A Unicorn Murder" CD CoverThe audio drama is available in our store as an MP3 download for £9.99 and as a physical CD (with free immediate audio download included) for £13.99."A Unicorn Murder" is the exciting new videogame adaptation from the producers of Elite: Escape Velocity. Featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace) and Samantha Béart (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) and based on Julian Gollop's game of Wizard battles.
Click here to pre-order Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures.
The wizard, Dagan, is continually defeated in his attempts to rid the realm of a cruel master. Broke and desperate for new equipment, Dagan finds himself in the Unicorn-racing town of Mana Falls, where intrigue, murder and suspicion lie around every corner.
When a high profile member of the community is murdered, Dagan finds himself as the prime suspect. Will the wizard's mission be overturned by humanity's laws - and can Dagan determine his own fate before marauders, banishing charms and goblins decide it for him?
September 5, 2016
New Store Online
The new Radio Theatre Workshop store is now open, providing you with access to high-quality full-cast audio drama and merchandise. Celebrate the return of Escape Velocity with a fantastic original T Shirt or Limited Edition Travel Mug and hear our latest and best audio dramas.
Released on September 30th, you can now pre-order the Kickstarter-backed Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures, featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I) and Samantha Béart (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Also available is Michael Brookes' fantastic Forced Entry - which has been available on our store for some time, but is now easier to access than ever before. Hear this gripping and gruesome tale of modern weaponry versus unspeakable evil.
Released on September 30th, you can now pre-order the Kickstarter-backed Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures, featuring Andy Secombe (Star Wars Episode I) and Samantha Béart (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
Also available is Michael Brookes' fantastic Forced Entry - which has been available on our store for some time, but is now easier to access than ever before. Hear this gripping and gruesome tale of modern weaponry versus unspeakable evil.
September 4, 2016
Escape Velocity Series 3 Trailer Takes Off
Probably enough said, really...
There's still time to become a Patron, support the development and get some great rewards, including high audio quality version, hangouts with the director and private streams of post-production.
September 2, 2016
New Store
It's been an incredible year so far at The Radio Theatre Workshop and in a few days we'll be able to share some of our hard work with you. We're just working on the physical and download versions of our latest full-cast audio drama "Chaos Reborn - A Unicorn Murder" which will be available shortly. To support that release, we'll be launching our new store on Sunday 4th September, using a great new delivery service for MP3s and physical goods and allowing us to focus on creating and delivering great audio drama. The store will also have merchandise for our various series, including Escape Velocity! So if you want any of our limited edition Escape Velocity travel mugs or T-Shirts, you'll be able to order these from Sunday!
The travel mugs come in either purple or black and the t-shirts feature fantastic artwork by prolific community artist Kevin Massey, funded and commissioned by our fantastic Patreon backers for Escape Velocity.
The travel mugs come in either purple or black and the t-shirts feature fantastic artwork by prolific community artist Kevin Massey, funded and commissioned by our fantastic Patreon backers for Escape Velocity.
July 1, 2016
Animal Crossing Noir Returns!
Many of you may remember Animal Crossing Noir - a personal passion project of mine to narrate my gameplay experiences in the form of a surreal, Chandler-esque journey through the 3DS game Animal Crossing New Leaf.
It's been resurrected thanks to Family Gamer TV and commissioned as a 10-part motion comic on their YouTube channel. The first four episodes - released as a podcast in 2013 - have been remixed with new music and effect and set to images grabbed from the game itself. What results is a compelling and unique web series.
Into the magical land of Animal Crossing comes a new visitor: a stranger on a train who has no memory of boarding and no idea of his destination. A place where the townsfolk keep him prisoner and the mayor's assistant Isabelle knows more than she reveals. He escaped from Animal Crossing once before. What would compel him to return? Can he escape the town a second time?
You can catch Animal Crossing Noir here and the first episode is below. Enjoy!
It's been resurrected thanks to Family Gamer TV and commissioned as a 10-part motion comic on their YouTube channel. The first four episodes - released as a podcast in 2013 - have been remixed with new music and effect and set to images grabbed from the game itself. What results is a compelling and unique web series.
Into the magical land of Animal Crossing comes a new visitor: a stranger on a train who has no memory of boarding and no idea of his destination. A place where the townsfolk keep him prisoner and the mayor's assistant Isabelle knows more than she reveals. He escaped from Animal Crossing once before. What would compel him to return? Can he escape the town a second time?
You can catch Animal Crossing Noir here and the first episode is below. Enjoy!
February 3, 2016
Opportunity for the Official Elite: Dangerous Computer to Appear in Escape Velocity
Amy Timms (May) recording at the Radio Theatre WorkshopAfter some negotiation and discussion we have an opportunity to use Verity Croft - who provides her voice to the in-ship systems in Elite: Dangerous - to come and provide her vocal talents for the Escape Velocity and other various station computers and consoles! It's a tremendously exciting opportunity, as it brings the series one step closer to fidelity with the game. It's always been my hope that players of Elite: Dangerous will find themselves immersed in a familiar and faithful world when they listen to this series.Using Verity wasn't in the original budget, so it would be great if we could find more backers to get us to the next Patreon milestone ($1000). The existing Patrons are already doing their part, so please spread the word, share the Patreon page with anyone who expresses any kind of love for Escape Velocity or Sci-Fi Audio Drama and lets get those extra lovely people on board!
In other news, recording began today with the arrival of Amy Timms to the studio to reprise her role as May Havelock! It was great to have Amy back behind the mic and it really feels like production on EV has properly started now that Amy has done her stuff. If you've not yet heard Amy in the previous 11 episodes of Escape Velocity, head over to the Escape Velocity website to hear them!
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November 25, 2015
Chaos Reborn Audio Drama Funded!
Chaos Reborn - The Audio AdventuresGreat news! Our Kickstarter for Chaos Reborn - The Audio Adventures has completed successfully, meaning that a brand new full-cast audio series of fantasy and magic is on the way!I wanted to say a huge thank you to all the backers, here as well as on other sites. it really is down to you that this project is moving forward and it is fantastic to have your support.
This audio series is being developed in partnership with Snapshot Games and Julian Gollop and I look forward to working with Julian and Allen (Stroud) to develop the fiction and scripts to be as true to the game as possible. Now that the Kickstarter is complete, work on finishing the scripts will begin and we'll get some actors booked as soon as we're clear on the qualities needed for each character.
We still need to do a little bit of work to get our online store back up and running, but as soon as that is done you'll see details of the new drama episodes appearing and we'll be putting up pages all about the project, with cast details and other credits.
Keep an eye out to for our new hall of fame. This will be appearing shortly and will be the first place we record our thanks to the named backers who made this project possible!
Until then, don't forget to 'like' our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.
November 9, 2015
A Massive Escape Velocity Thank You
Thank you to everybody to got involved with the 12-hr livestream for my audio drama Escape Velocity! It's been a wild day, with the Elite: Dangerous community once again surpassing my expectations with their generosity of time, support and funding.
Christopher Jarvis presents the 12-hr fundraising livestream for Escape VelocityIt is with great pleasure I can announce that you all smashed the initial Patreon milestone (and made short work of the next two) and Escape Velocity can now go into development. I'm really excited for this and so grateful to the fantastic community that's made all of this happen, not just today but for all the help leading up to this point.
Special thanks to Zac Antonaci, from Frontier Developments, for coming on at the beginning and answering any questions possible on Horizons and Planet Coaster, thanks to Ben (Cmdr Eid LeWeise) and Cmdr Bikky for keeping me company for the first part of the Escape Velocity locations tour, thanks to Liam McCauley, Rebecca Keeves, and Amy Timms from the cast of Escape Velocity for coming on and being interviewed and sharing memories from previous recordings. Thank you to Julian Gollop for coming on and talking Chaos Reborn and being so fantastic in the support of that "other" Kickstarter!
Delving into gaming history with Interphase
Thank you to Allen Stroud for coming and talking music and Interphase and Cmdr DrToxic for winging up and bailing me out when I lost track of fuel. Thank you to Ben Moss-Woodward, Darren Grey, Dave Hughes and Grant Woolcott for playing the RPG and a special extra thank you to Dave Hughes for continually keeping the clickable Patreon link in the Twitch chat. Thank you to the Lave Radio crew for ongoing support and the loan of the Twitch channel for the day and for all the other streamers who hosted the stream. And an extra thank you to Grant for continuing to be awesome. A special thank you to my wife for bringing me sustenance while I was locked in the studio, for finding stuff, keeping child entertained and for ongoing love and support throughout these projects!
And a big Thank You also to everyone who watched, tweeted, contributed and backed the project. This is down to you all!
Interviewing Amy Timms (May from Escape Velocity)
I am in the process of moving the videos to YouTube and making sense of them all. Please bear with me if you missed the stream and want to catch up. The videos can, at the moment of writing, still be viewed on the Lave Radio Twitch Channel. There is still one active milestone on the Escape Velocity Patreon page and I really hope that more and more fans will continue to come and give their support to the project. The money all goes into making new episodes of Escape Velocity as excellent as they can be, and the next milestone would give us the opportunity to get some proper artwork commissioned for EV, for the first time ever!
Right On, Commanders!
Christopher Jarvis presents the 12-hr fundraising livestream for Escape VelocityIt is with great pleasure I can announce that you all smashed the initial Patreon milestone (and made short work of the next two) and Escape Velocity can now go into development. I'm really excited for this and so grateful to the fantastic community that's made all of this happen, not just today but for all the help leading up to this point.Special thanks to Zac Antonaci, from Frontier Developments, for coming on at the beginning and answering any questions possible on Horizons and Planet Coaster, thanks to Ben (Cmdr Eid LeWeise) and Cmdr Bikky for keeping me company for the first part of the Escape Velocity locations tour, thanks to Liam McCauley, Rebecca Keeves, and Amy Timms from the cast of Escape Velocity for coming on and being interviewed and sharing memories from previous recordings. Thank you to Julian Gollop for coming on and talking Chaos Reborn and being so fantastic in the support of that "other" Kickstarter!
Delving into gaming history with InterphaseThank you to Allen Stroud for coming and talking music and Interphase and Cmdr DrToxic for winging up and bailing me out when I lost track of fuel. Thank you to Ben Moss-Woodward, Darren Grey, Dave Hughes and Grant Woolcott for playing the RPG and a special extra thank you to Dave Hughes for continually keeping the clickable Patreon link in the Twitch chat. Thank you to the Lave Radio crew for ongoing support and the loan of the Twitch channel for the day and for all the other streamers who hosted the stream. And an extra thank you to Grant for continuing to be awesome. A special thank you to my wife for bringing me sustenance while I was locked in the studio, for finding stuff, keeping child entertained and for ongoing love and support throughout these projects!
And a big Thank You also to everyone who watched, tweeted, contributed and backed the project. This is down to you all!
Interviewing Amy Timms (May from Escape Velocity)I am in the process of moving the videos to YouTube and making sense of them all. Please bear with me if you missed the stream and want to catch up. The videos can, at the moment of writing, still be viewed on the Lave Radio Twitch Channel. There is still one active milestone on the Escape Velocity Patreon page and I really hope that more and more fans will continue to come and give their support to the project. The money all goes into making new episodes of Escape Velocity as excellent as they can be, and the next milestone would give us the opportunity to get some proper artwork commissioned for EV, for the first time ever!
Right On, Commanders!
