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The Audio Track brings the industry's top professionals to share their knowledge and experience from the real-world, addressing these unique problems: aesthetic, technical, business, logistical and then some.
HIGHLIGHTED SESSIONS
Journey vs Monaco: Music is Storytelling
Austin Wintory (Independent)
Composer Austin Wintory compares the two radically different scores he completed in 2011: thatgamecompany's JOURNEY and Pocket Watch Games' MONACO. Despite being different games with different goals, and very different scores, the underlying philosophy for creating a musically meaningful experience was identical. This talk explores how large scale and small scale structures were made in order to try and create narrative arcs, and how reconciling adaptivity with musicality were handled. It will also explore the production process for each score, including a look at unused music and the evolutionary process the scores underwent. The lead designer for each game (Jenova Chen and Andy Schatz) will join Austin for the audience Q&A.
Composition Process in Batman Arkham City
Nick Arundel (Rocksteady)
How can a composer create a unified score for game that can take 25 hours to play? What are the techniques that can help stop a game soundtrack from appearing like a disparate set of unconnected musical tracks? Is there a place for formal musical development within video games? This session presents a thorough analysis of the composition process throughout Batman Arkham City and offers a critique of this approach. We will explore some of the ways that musical form was used to create unity and enforce the game play narrative within Arkham City.
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