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The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry

Session Name: Journey vs Monaco: Music is Storytelling
Speaker(s): Austin Wintory
Company Name(s): independent
Track / Format: Audio
Overview:

Composer Austin Wintory compares the two radically different scores he completed in 2011: thatgamecompany's Journey and Pocket Watch Games' Monaco. Despite being different games with different goals and very different scores, the underlying philosophy for creating a musically meaningful experience was identical.

This talk explores how large scale and small scale structures were made in order to try and create narrative arcs and how reconciling adaptivity with musicality was handled. It will also explore the production process for each score, including a look at unused music and the evolutionary process the scores underwent. The lead designer for each game (Jenova Chen and Andy Schatz) will join Austin for the audience Q&A.

GDC 2012

Austin Wintory

independent

free content

Audio

Audio