{"id":36,"date":"2011-02-09T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-07-09T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T13:37:01","slug":"instrumental-inspiration-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Instrumental Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Game Music<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Continuing on the topic of musical inspiration\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve covered a few (note the words; a few) composers, now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to show you the world of game music. The place where the game is more recognized than the composer.<\/p>\n

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Games are another great source for finding writing music. They, just like movie music, are written to match scenes and moods. Not to mention they also do not\u00c2\u00a0include words. Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned YouTube and you can go look up your favorite game to find its OST, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s better way to get it. Mind you, this way only works if you own the game!<\/p>\n

But, before I get into how to do that, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to mention a few of my favorite games that have enjoyable music. Click on the name of the game and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take you to a track on YouTube from that game.<\/em> So, on we go then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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Assassin's Creed 2<\/p><\/div>\n

Assassin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creed 2:<\/a><\/strong> Has some really great sounding tracks. You could look up AC1 or ACB as well, but I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listened to those yet and so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really recommend them, can I?<\/p>\n

Republic Commando:<\/a><\/strong> Starwars and Sci-fi fans\/writers, this is the game OST for you. The music gives you the feel of sci-fi and sometimes the music is all you need. Great range, but more battle type tracks on this one.<\/p>\n

Mass Effect 2:<\/a><\/strong> Now, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say anything about this game, but the OST is great. Yet another one you sci-fi writers will enjoy. Has slow and fast. Good for any kind of futuristic writing.<\/p>\n

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Republic Commando<\/p><\/div>\n

Rise of Nations:<\/a><\/strong> Good game. Great OST. Like ME2, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got slow and fast; soft and hard; light and heavy. Good for medieval writing, but can capture any genre and age affectively.<\/p>\n

Age of Empires; the Conquerors:<\/a> <\/strong> This music will always make me think of playing games with my brother, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good and simple. Another good medieval type OST.<\/p>\n

Civilization 3:<\/a><\/strong> A good variety of sounds, both in location and age. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say anything about earlier and later versions of this game, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re mostly likely the same good quality.<\/p>\n

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Those are all the ones I can recall at the moment, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure there are others (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m certain a few of you will be after me about Myst music). The easiest way to determine if the music will fit your genre\/age is to think of what genre\/age the game is set in.<\/p>\n

One thing I like to do, once I have the tracks in Windows Media Player (WMP) or a like program, is to listen to all the tracks and label them:<\/p>\n

Soft<\/strong><\/p>\n

Strong<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joyful<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foreign<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or something like that, you can come up with your own titles. Labeling the tracks helps when you know what you want to write and need the music to match. This way, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re writing a sad scene, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have epic battle music playing in the background.<\/p>\n

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Windows Media Player<\/p><\/div>\n

Now, returning to the topic of finding games music apart from YouTube. If you own the game and have it installed, you can actually pull that music out of the game folder. I own a PC and thus can only tell you how to do this on a PC, but I assume there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a way to do it on Macs as well. Okay, to start go into \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Windows Explorer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and open drive C. Find the folder for your game (this is usually titled with the name of the game of the company that made the game). Then you want to find the folder called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sounds\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153music\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (it varies with each game). Within this folder you should find other folders and some .wav or .mp3 files. These files are playable in WMP. Look in all the sub-folders, testing music as you go. If you find music that sounds like background music, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found the folder you want. You can copy these file into WMP to listen to more easily.<\/p>\n

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There you have it my friends. My two part installment on Instrumental Inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part 2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Game Music Continuing on the topic of musical inspiration\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve covered a few (note the words; a few) composers, now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to show you the world of game music. The place where the game is more recognized than the composer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16,13,10,11,15],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-in-general","tag-games","tag-lists","tag-music","tag-styles","tag-systems","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rssharkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}