Wanted to share an update and let you in on the creative process for scoring video games. I have uploaded two video game scores (including a tentative/work in progress one) to Last.fm.
The first score I want to share (because it chronologically began first, and is officially completed) is the score for The Midnight Game. These are not the first-take tracks, and they are quite minimal.
Here is the tracklisting:
1 Menu
2 Background
3 Hallucinations
4 Midnight Man Approaches
5 A strange Place
6 The House
7 Obscurity In Silence
For the second score I am mentioning today, for The Evil Returns, I was able to compose quite quickly, upon sending the music to the game's creator, he asked for noiser tracks (ironically the opposite of what the creator before wanted), so I remixed tracks. Track 3 is a remix of 2, 5 is a remix of 4, 7 is a remix of 6, and 9 is a remix of 8, and I felt titling them to reflect this would be appropriate as well, including titling the noiser mix with a title that represents that it's noiser.
Here is the track listing as of now for that score:
1 Evil Makes a Comeback
2 The Tension Rises
3 The Tension Overwhelms
4 Can't Be Good
5 Definitely Not Good
6 An Idle Mind
7 A Cluttered Mind
8 Completely Lost In The Mind
9 An Unwanted Find In The Mind
10 An End
When scoring for games I tend to compose for the environment since the specifics are controlled by the player, whereas films tend to have such set actions that those pieces are composed based on very specific character actions.
