Game Music Town composer Andrew Napier wins 2017 Scorbit’s Video Game Scoring Contest

For the second consecutive year, Scorbit, one of the biggest communities for game composers and sound designers around the world, hosted its Video Game scoring Contest. — December 15, 2017 Contestants had to create a 30-second piece of music in the form of a seamless loop, broken into three different layers so that when three layers are played simultaneously, the

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10 Films With Great Soundtracks To Watch On Netflix Today

A great film soundtrack can often be just as instrumental to a film’s success as its script, cast, and direction. That’s why we’ve trawled through Netflix’s back catalog to find the movie that has harnessed the power of music to the most awe-inspiring effect. — December 14, 2017. From epic blockbusters and Oscar-winning classics to art-house hits and cult favorites –

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What Does A Total Beginner Need To Know To Create A Video Game?

A lot! However, below you will find the answer given by Andy Schatz, owner of Pocketwatch Games, Tooth and Tail, Indie since 2005. — December 11, 2017. Games are a multidisciplinary field, but aside from programming, all of those disciplines are things with a very low barrier to entry. Most of us have made games before. When you were a kid,

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A Video Game Music Composer’s Resource Guide

We wanted to share with you a guide to understanding music in VR written by Winnifred Phillips, award-winning composer with more than 13 years of experience in the game industry and a long list of video game credits that include titles from five of the most prominent franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, LittleBigPlanet, Total War, God of War, and The Sims. —

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A Guide to the Holiday Season’s Biggest Video Games and Consoles

It’s that time of the year again, and the games industry is pushing out a diverse lineup of titles, from new installments of long-running franchises like Activision’s Call of Duty and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed to EA’s long-awaited Star Wars Battlefront II. — December 1, 2017. But the real crowd pleasers this year may be in hardware. Microsoft and Nintendo are

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