Waterflame

Waterflame
Birth name Christian Mejlænder Krogsvold
Also known as Waterflame
Born (1989-02-26) 26 February 1989
Oslo, Norway
Genres Video Game Music, Techno, Electronic dance music
Occupation(s)
  • Composer
  • Sound designer
Years active 2004 - present
Labels Waterflame Music
Website www.waterflame.com

Christian Mejænder Krogsvold, (born February 26, 1989), best known professionally as Waterflame, is a self-taught Norwegian composer and sound designer. He is best known for composing his musical works on video games such as Castle Crashers, CastleStorm and Geometry Dash. [1]

Music career

Krogsvold's love for creating music began in 2002 at the age of 13, when he started composing music in his spare time.[2] His first uploaded content began with flash animations on the social website Newgrounds at the age of 14 after joining the platform in 2003. In 2004, he created the musical piece, JumpyStompLoop, which was licensed in the 2005 game MecaPumble, by Mexican small programming company Nibbo Studios. The track was remade as Jumper, which was first used in Castle Crashers in 2008, and used in Geometry Dash in 2013.[3]

Having success on Newgrounds, Krogsvold further expressed his media online on other websites that provide user-generated content, such as YouTube and SoundCloud. In 2008, he received requests from several video-game companies for composing music, in which began his career composing music for Castle Crashers. In October 11, 2009, Krogsvold released his first music album Green online in multiple stores. He has also been composing music for other video-game producers since then, including 2013 games CastleStorm by Zen Studios and Geometry Dash by Robtop Games.

Between commissions for composition, sound effects and sound design, he has released 16 albums within the last 10 years and hundreds of individual tracks across Newgrounds, YouTube, SoundCloud, iTunes and Spotify.[2] He has worked with numerous video game developers including "Zen Studios", "The Behemoth" and "MaxGames" and often involves himself in other areas of game development besides music. Presently, Krogsvold creates pixel art and electronic music on Newgrounds and his website. He uses FL Studio and Roland keyboards currently to compose new music tracks and songs, mainly for video games.[4][5]. His other interests include photography, animation, and game development.[2]

Albums

  • Green (2009)
  • Adventure (2012)
  • Showdown (2013)
  • Community Favorites (2015)
  • Surge (2017)

Official Soundtracks

  • Age of War (2007)
  • Castle Crashers (2008)
  • Geometry Dash (2013)
  • Kawairun (2013)
  • Great Forest Challenge (2013)
  • CastleStorm (2013)
  • An Alien with a Magnet (2013)
  • Fox Fender (2014)
  • Fox Rush (2015)
  • Oh My Goat! (2015)
  • SAP: Battle Arena (2015)
  • Layerz (2015)
  • Racing Apex (2016)
  • Infinite Minigolf (2017)
  • Infinite Minigolf Add on Pack Vol.1 (2017)
  • Rocket Wars (2017)

References

  1. ↑ Cornell, Kevin (January 7, 2015). "Interview: Video Game Composer Waterflame on Collecting YouTube Sound Recording Revenue". TuneCore Blog. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Waterflame at GDC 2018". March 1, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ Bobomb, Barbie (May 30, 2013). "Interview with Waterflame". Zen Studios. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Selvig, Kasper (May 6, 2016). "Christian <<Waterflame>> Mejænder lager spillmusikk på YouTube - og har flere fans enn de fleste norske artister". NATT&DAG. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Williams, Orion (January 11, 2013). "An interview with video game music composer Waterflame (CastleStorm, Castle Crashers)". FizMarble. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
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