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Szark  4/17/08 6:58:31 AM
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Stargate Worlds Sound Designer Nick LaMartina has posted a blog describing the problems with video game music and his goal to solve them.

Let’s say you’re helping design a product. The part that you’re designing tends to be the first thing that customers rip out to replace with an after-market part. You know this, and it’s been this way for years.

Now let’s think about this. What is your motivation? If you go to work every day with the assumption that no one cares about your work, that it’s replaceable, and that it will be the first thing to go, are you really going to come in every day ready to blow people away? Are you going to be motivated to do any kind of noteworthy work if you assume people will just toss it away anyway?

No, of course not. You’ll come in, drag your feet, and put only a minimal amount of work into it because hey, people don’t want this anyway. They might not even notice if we took it away in the first place.

Read more here.
 
Gerec  4/17/08 6:24:45 PM
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I've always been interested in the audio in games. I'd like to have heard more of what's being planned.
 
Fumbles  4/18/08 8:02:52 AM
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Nick is truely doing some amazing things with the audio in the game, Here is a link to his video podcast that shows some good stuff.
 
frumbert  4/18/08 6:56:31 PM
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I''m never pleased; games can always be designed better.

a truly great sound designer knows how to use silence to best effect. I hate movies and games that think music and sound has to be clear and ever present and that it it assists to emote each and every situation. It will be interesting to see what kind of route this game takes, since they certainly seem to be touting sound design a fair bit at the moment.
 
sh4dowst4lkr  4/18/08 7:01:12 PM
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors but we borrow it from our children. By Some Guy.

The Devs are really going all-out on this one, and the game is looking awesome and yes, sounding awesome things are looking up for sci-fi MMO gamers.
 
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