Permanent Music (GDC 2013)

When making music for games, how can we honor and learn from the tradition of impermanent music?

[@artofsirmanu9748]

Brilliant Presentation!

[@Campboiwil]

awesome content mate.

[@milesmungo]

Awesome. Does anyone know if there are games that employ music 'engines'? By that I mean, a game that doesn't play the action music .wav when you get into a firefight, but dynamically creates music based on certain conditions i.e. increase the bpm when x happens.

[@PainterVierax]

A lot of recent Nintendo games uses multitracks songs and can add some effects to the sound to change the ambiance after an event. I think there are some of those mixer/engine mecanics in The Floor Is Jelly too

[@nintendude794]

Here’s some info on one of my fave examples of such a music engine: RDR1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIfJlK2Cncdqr7s