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Academic research on video game music began in the late 1990s, [3] and developed through the mid 2000s. Early research on the topic often involved historical studies of game music, or comparative studies of video game music and film music (see, for instance, Zach Whalen's article "Play Along – An Approach to Videogame Music" which includes both). [4]
Jan. 31—RIVER FALLS — When comparing video game music to more scholarly topics like classical scores and movie soundtracks, Casey Palbicki said there are a lot of elements that make it unique ...
A Composer's Guide to Game Music is a 2014 book written by Winifred Phillips, a video game composer with over 11 years experience creating music for such games as Assassin’s Creed Liberation, God of War and multiple games in the LittleBigPlanet franchise. Through the use of autobiographical anecdotes, scholarly discussion and practical advice ...
The Ludomusicology Research Group is an inter-university research organisation focusing on the study of music in games, music games and music in video game culture, composed of four researchers: Michiel Kamp, Tim Summers, Melanie Fritsch, and Mark Sweeney. [97]
Michael John Gordon (born 7 July 1985) is an Australian composer, record producer, musician, and sound designer, composing music primarily for video games.. Gordon has composed for several first-person shooters, including Atomic Heart, LawBreakers, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Prey, the soft reboot of Doom and its sequel Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus ...
The psychological research into games has yielded theories on how playing video games may be advantageous for both children and for adults. Some theories claim that video games in fact help improve cognitive abilities rather than impede their development. [34] These improvement theories include the improvement of visual contrast sensitivity. [35]
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry. [1] [A] 1988 Mega Man 2: Takashi Tateishi [B] 1989 Tetris: Hirokazu Tanaka: Game ...
Musicology (from Greek μουσική mousikē 'music' and -λογια-logia, 'domain of study') is the scholarly, research-based study of music.Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, formal sciences and computer science.