The Score: Music in Video Games

This documentary explains from the beginning to the end what role video game music has and still plays in a video game experience. It opens up with a brief comment on what role […]

The Score: Music In Video Games Treatment

The scene opens to a black screen and all you hear is different clips of music from key videogames starting from the very first games to the most recent. Shortly […]

LMW II Production Checklist

PRE-PRODUCTION: PART I

GROUP CONTACT INFORMATION

Name: Rainer Schmidig________________________Phone: 925-963-1672_________
Email: […]

Spencer Nilsen and Wilbert Roget talked to us about many different aspects of video game music and sound. All the way from how it used to be, up until how it is today. They explained technological advancements to […]

How would you describe the evolution of sound in games
In what ways do you feel the change in technology changed the advancements in video games (both console and computer)
How do you find inspiration to […]

I will be interviewing a music composer at LucasArts, Wilbert Roget.

Emily Ridgway is also a sound designer at Zynga I will be getting a Skype interview with.

There are also a couple people from Double Fine […]

http://www.computerhistory.org

A museum of computer history that may be relevant to the change of video game technology

http://themade.org

A small museum that recently started up in Oakland. I would like to check it out and maybe interview some of the people who run it and attend it…

The music for each game in the Myst series has fallen to various composers. Originally, the Millers believed that any music or sound besides ambient noise would distract the player from the game and ruin the sense […]

Nobuo Uematsu was born on March 21, 1959, in Kochi, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He started to play music at the age of twelve. He taught himself how to play the piano. He started his professional career writing music […]

Everyone knows the game Simon Says! But who remembers the VIDEO GAME? I’m sure you remember playing the game, having to memorize color with sound. Simon Says was the first electronic game to incorporate music as a […]

Born August 6, 1966, in Dallas, Texas co-founded Cyan Worlds (originally Cyan) with brother Rand Miller. After releasing a number of children’s adventure “worlds”, the brothers finally hit on a success with the […]

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Super Mario Bros., for many years the best-selling video game of all time, was Kondo’s first major score. The game’s melodies were created with the intention that short segments of music could be endlessly […]

I had a bunch of friends take a poll on which video game soundtrack was your favorite. A lot of them added their own in but two of the ones I added managed to be the most popular. This was a personal experiment […]