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Dave Cowen is a freelance musician who has been composing for Nitrome since 2010. He also produces music for other clients, such as Armorgames and Neutronized. His place of residence is in London, United Kingdom.
History[edit | edit source]
Dave began working for Nitrome in March 2008 as one of the music composers for the site. He soon made many music tracks for the games, and took over (but not completely) for Lee Nicklen. His works for Nitrome first appeared in the game Snot Put.
Games[edit | edit source]
Dave Cowen has been credited in a total of 98 Nitrome games.
| No. | Game | Release date | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snot Put | 28 April 2008 | |
| 2 | Knuckleheads | 20 May 2008 | |
| 3 | Mutiny | 8 July 2008 | |
| 4 | Mallet Mania | 11 September 2008 | |
| 5 | Bomba | 3 November 2008 | |
| 6 | Flipside | 14 November 2008 | |
| 7 | Toxic 2 | 25 November 2008 | |
| 8 | Fat Cat | 4 December 2008 | |
| 9 | Pixel Pop | 7 January 2009 | |
| 10 | Flash Cat | 21 January 2009 | |
| 11 | Twin Shot | 6 February 2009 | |
| 12 | Mirror Image | 13 February 2009 | |
| 13 | Final Ninja Zero | 8 April 2009 | |
| 14 | Powerup | 22 April 2009 | |
| 15 | Droplets | 22 May 2009 | |
| 16 | Castle Corp | 25 June 2009 | |
| 17 | Parasite | 11 July 2009 | |
| 18 | Twin Shot 2 | 20 July 2009 | |
| 19 | Rockitty | 20 August 2009 | |
| 20 | Nebula | 15 September 2009 | |
| 21 | B.C.Bow Contest | 5 November 2009 | |
| 22 | Avalanche | 22 December 2009 | |
| 23 | Rubble Trouble New York | 29 January 2010 | |
| 24 | Blast RPG | 11 March 2010 | |
| 25 | Tiny Castle | 6 April 2010 | |
| 26 | Chisel | 29 April 2010 | |
| 27 | Fault Line | 16 June 2010 | |
| 28 | Ribbit | 14 July 2010 | |
| 29 | Squawk | 29 September 2010 | |
| 30 | Temple Glider | 8 October 2010 | |
| 31 | Sky Serpents | 22 October 2010 | |
| 32 | Enemy 585 | 9 November 2010 | |
| 33 | Super Treadmill | 19 November 2010 | |
| 34 | Bad Ice-Cream | 10 December 2010 | |
| 35 | Rush | 23 December 2010 | |
| 36 | The Bucket | 24 January 2011 | |
| 37 | Canary | 2 February 2011 | |
| 38 | Test Subject Blue | 2 March 2011 | |
| 39 | Chisel 2 | 16 March 2011 | |
| 40 | Knight Trap | 4 April 2011 | |
| 41 | Steamlands | 18 April 2011 | |
| 42 | Test Subject Green | 10 May 2011 | |
| 43 | Silly Sausage | 27 May 2011 | |
| 44 | Test Subject Arena | 15 June 2011 | |
| 45 | Office Trap | 5 July 2011 | |
| 46 | Rubble Trouble Tokyo | 28 July 2011 | |
| 47 | Canopy | 19 August 2011 | |
| 48 | Mega Mash | 30 September 2011 | |
| 49 | Steamlands Player Pack | 13 October 2011 | |
| 50 | Stumped | 27 October 2011 | |
| 51 | Nitrome Must Die | 24 November 2011 | |
| 52 | Lockehorn | 15 December 2011 | |
| 53 | Rubble Trouble Moscow | 21 December 2011 | |
| 54 | Rainbogeddon | 2 February 2012 | |
| 55 | Swindler | 21 February 2012 | |
| 56 | Gunbrick (browser) | 20 April 2012 | |
| 57 | Hot Air Jr Demo | 2 May 2012 | |
| 58 | Cave Chaos 2 | 17 May 2012 | |
| 59 | Super Snotput | 7 June 2012 | |
| 60 | Hot Air Jr | 28 June 2012 | |
| 61 | J-J-Jump | 19 July 2012 | |
| 62 | Calamari | 3 September 2012 | |
| 63 | Turnament | 26 September 2012 | |
| 64 | Swindler 2 | 21 November 2012 | |
| 65 | Ice Beak | 6 December 2012 | |
| 66 | Bad Ice-Cream 2 | 21 December 2012 | |
| 67 | Plunger | 22 January 2013 | |
| 68 | Super Stock Take | 19 March 2013 | |
| 69 | Test Subject Complete | 7 May 2013 | |
| 70 | Colourblind | 5 June 2013 | |
| 71 | Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage | 20 June 2013 | |
| 72 | Oodlegobs | 29 August 2013 | |
| 73 | Test Subject Arena 2 | 16 October 2013 | |
| 74 | Cheese Dreams New Moon | 5 December 2013 | |
| 75 | Bad Ice-Cream 3 | 20 December 2013 | |
| 76 | Ditto | 26 March 2014 | |
| 77 | Flue | 16 May 2014 | |
| 78 | Bump Battle Royale | 1 August 2014 | |
| 79 | Coil | 11 September 2014 | |
| 80 | Turn-Undead | 7 October 2014 | |
| 81 | Submolok | 27 November 2014 | |
| 82 | Roller Polar | 4 December 2014 | |
| 83 | Silly Sausage in Meat Land | 25 March 2015 | |
| 84 | Cooped Up | 6 May 2015 | |
| 85 | Green Ninja | 10 June 2015 | |
| 86 | Vault! | 22 July 2015 | |
| 87 | Beneath The Lighthouse | 29 October 2015 | |
| 88 | Rust Bucket | 16 December 2015 | |
| 89 | Leap Day | 11 May 2016 | |
| 90 | Redungeon | 23 June 2016 | |
| 91 | Stretch Dungeon | 7 September 2016 | |
| 92 | Hop Swap | 23 November 2016 | |
| 93 | Silly Sausage: Doggy Dessert | 21 December 2016 | |
| 94 | Flat Pack | 18 September 2017 | |
| 95 | Bomb Chicken | 12 July 2018 | |
| 96 | Turn-Undead 2 | 24 October 2018 | |
| 97 | Gunbrick: Reloaded | 9 April 2020 | |
| 98 | Super Leap Day | 6 August 2021 |
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Dave Cowen has a degree in music production, and has played piano for over twenty years.
- Dave Cowen also produced extra unused tracks for some of the themes for Super Leap Day, which didn’t make into the final game.
- Dave Cowen also produced the music for the short form Sesame Street series Abby’s Amazing Adventures from 2018 to 2020, alongside some other music for Sesame Street. He has produced the tracks for Mini Mix Mayhem by Chris Burt Brown.
External links[edit | edit source]
| v • d • eNitrome Staff | |
|---|---|
| Game artists | Giuseppe Longo • Gustav Kilman • Helm • Jay D Smith • Jon Annal • Joseph Gribbin • Markus Heinel • Martin Wörister • Mat Annal • Simon Hunter • Stefan Åhlin |
| Programmers | Aaron Steed • Andrew Gardner • Arthur Guibert • Carl Trelfa • Chris Burt-Brown • Gabriel Farfan • Heather Stancliffe • Ignatus Zuk • John Kennedy • Luis Jose Romero • Marcin Zemblowski • Marcus Schrock • Piotr Grodzki • Romain Macré • Stuart Allen • Thomas Ferrer • Tomas Normand |
| Musicians | Dave Cowen • Eirik Suhrke • Lee Nicklen • William Bard |
| Website developers | Jack • Tom McQuillan |
| See also | |