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Video game music // My work on Passing By

This is a slightly extended version of the post on the Passing By Devlog. Also check out their other posts! 🙂

Since almost three years I’m involved in the development of Passing By, a beautiful little 2D adventure game, as the producer of the game’s score. Being used to creating “regular” music (see my website or SoundCloud) and knowing a very fine selection of aspiring game developers, I always wanted to try out dynamic game music myself. As it turned out to be great fun, I’d like to tell you a little bit about my work in this post!

Video game music // Randomness in Wwise

I am proudly in charge of the music for a lovely videogame called Passing By and in the spirit of Learning In Public I start a little series on game music production! We use Audiokinetic Wwise for all game-audio and I’ll start with something a little technical but actually crucial for interactive game music: How does randomness really work in Music Playlist Containers?

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Favorites // Black Focus (Yussef Kamaal)

Yussef Dayes’ groovige Weltmaschine, dazu Kamaal Williams’ Synthies und Rhodes die vor keinem Wahwah zurückscheuen – und dann taucht schließlich dieser Basser auf, der ganz ohne Effekte dem modernen, funkigen Jazz beizeiten eine Note Fusion, dann HipHop beimischt.

Super geil, sowohl im Hintergrund als auch zum Abgehen.

Ganzes Album auf YouTube