How well do you know your game music? Could you tell a diegetic work if it smacked you in your ear holes? Cam Britton is here again with a delicious mix of auditory beverages including Destiny, Civilization 6 and Watch Dogs 2.
We discuss the congruence of tone of the music of Destiny with it's mix of solemnity and action (a personal favorite of mine), the 'time travelling' score of Civilization 6 (how do you make music for a game that passes through thousands of years??) and the diegetic, and super-diegetic qualities of Watch Dogs 2 (pushing the industry forward in unique and powerful ways)
Dive into another 30+ minutes of the Deep Fried Gamer podcast!
Destiny
https://youtu.be/PfrtX-foWUA
Composers: Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, C Paul Johnson & Rotem Moav
Civillization 6
https://youtu.be/sFlxSgOEZrk
Composer: Geoff Knorr
Watch Dogs 2
Audio Directors: Olivier Girard and Richie Nieto
https://youtu.be/twMgc8vQ53o?t=6m11s
https://youtu.be/47ZJXZJKOUo?t=3m30s
Additional Materials
Author: Winifred Phillips - A Composer's Guide to Game Audio
https://www.amazon.ca/Composers-Guide-Game-Music/dp/0262026643
Mick Gordon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bthei5ylvZ4
Interview on composing doom
Hollywood Reporter - Composer's Roundtable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSAF9_ZHjfc
Danny Elfman discusses how music should be memorable
Other heavyweight composers, like Hans Zimmer and Trent Reznor, have things to say too.
