Ok, so time to talk about some of the video game music I've done so far. Some of it belongs to games, some of it does not, but we'll start with one that does. This first piece is the title screen music to a game created by Games Design student Vic Goldsmith. The brief asked for a piece about three minutes long and similar to a Danny Elfman/Tim Burton theme. Here it is!
Horror Theme by elbissopmiry
So assuming that lovely piece of code worked, you'll have heard the track. I listened to quite a few Danny Elfman tracsk, but the ones that influenced me most were Beetlejuice, Nightmare Beofre Christmas and Tales From The Crypt. I *ahem* borrowed a few elements that I thought made those tracks work and jumbled them all up together. Namely the driving piano bass, the high pitched strings and the odd chord pattern. I used elements of what I believed made a good Elfman theme, such has oompah brass lines, rising vocals and vaudevillian accordian. I also tried to represent a number of the characters in musical forms, e.g. the accordian is the mime character... you know, because all mimes are French and the music box is our hero character, the doll-girl.
Anyway I enjoyed making it and I hope you enjoy listening to it. Hopefully I'll be supplied with a short video to accompany the song soon.
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