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Game Music:  Websites
  • GameDev:  |  Writing Game Music | The music for a game is very important | It sets the mood for the game |
  • SoMusical  |  Competitions (14)  |  Composers (7850)  |  Organizations (10)  |  Resources (3)  |  Songwriting (246)  |  Video Game Composers (98)  |
  • List of video game music
  • Mi2N  |  Game Soundtrack Composers Launch Dynamic Solution For Videogame Audio  |  This week marks the official launch for new game audio production studio, Game Audio Australia
  • Game Music Galaxy  |  A large collection of MIDI, plus many MP3's recorded from video games that can't be found anywhere else! Games include: Bust A Groove, Jet Force Gemini, Zelda  |
  • Gamespot  |  A History of Video Game Music  |  "By Glenn McDonald Design by Collin Oguro. Video game music has come a long way, baby. ... And for some games, sound and music are the point in and of themselves"  |
  • RabiteMan's Game Music Page  |  Sheet music  |
  • VGMusic  |  19,000+ Game Music MIDI files  |  Video Game MIDI Music from NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, Genesis, Master System, Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, Turbo-Grafx 16, and more  |
  • Game Music Revolution  |  Add a CD to the Database  |  browse by   Album Title  Catalogue   Release Date  |  "Game Music news and CD information" |
  • GameMusic.com  |  Game Music  |  Anime Music  |  Sheet Music  |  Books  |  Collectibles  |  Anime DVD  |  Toys  |  New Releases  |  New Arrivals  |  Collectibles  |
  • The Best Videogame Music of All Time  |  "The Video Game Music Hall of Fame. One of the best things about video game music is that there are so many different kinds"  |
  • Open Directory  |  Games: Video Games: Music  |
  • Music4Games  |  News  |  Features  |  Reviews  |  Music  |  Directory  |  Forums  |  Search  |  MP3  |  Charts  |  What's New?  |  Soundtracks  |
  • Skytopia  |  Greatest C64 game music  |  Reviews & rankings  |  Reviews of the top Commodore 64 games music  |  The All-Time Top C64 Game Tunes  |   Welcome to the definitive listing of the greatest C64 game music ever created!  |
  • Ichigo's Sheet Music  |  Game and Anime Sheet Music  |
  • RPGamers Network  |  Welcome to RPGN's Game Music Page  |
  • X-treme Games Music  |  Some of the best in video games music from all eras collected and organised in various formats and with players available for download  |
  • GAME MUSIC RING  |  (Support Anime Music too)  |  The place for you to list your game music sites or anime music sites. For those who have an Anime or Game music site can freely join this ring  |
  • IGN Music  |  Video Game Music  |  Our music experts examine how each game's music stands on its own as a collection, while our gaming specialists analyze its impact on the game experience
  • Composers Sascha Dikiciyan & Cris Velasco create dynamic main theme for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 4: Double Agent
  • 234 Free Vintage DOS Games and Playable Demos
  • Mirsoft  |  World of Game MODs - game music modules for download  |  Big database of videogames, many Amiga and PC game music modules (mods) and midis (mids)  |
  • vGame  |  Video game music: not just kid stuff  |
  • OverClocked ReMix  |  Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community  |  OverClocked ReMix is a website dedicated to reviving the video and computer game music of yesterday, and reinterpreting that of today, with new technology & capabilities. This site's mission is to prove that this music is not disposable or merely just background, but is as intricate, innovative, and lasting as any other form  |  Music  |  composers  |  links  |  remixers  |  remixes  |  sound archives (NSF, etc)  |  Community  |  chat/IRC  |  forums  |  faq  |  groups  |  search  |  ReMixing:  |  links  |  remixing forum  |  submission standards  |  tutorials  |  Emulation  |  beginner's guide  |  emulators  |  sound players (NSF, etc)  |  systems  |
  • Capowski's Li'l Game Music Review Corner  |  Reviews  |  "Welcome to my humble mini-website devoted to one of my favorite hobbies, game music - RPG game music in particular"  |
  • Mi2N  |  The Grammy Foundation And EA Announce Grammy Pro Session: Video Game Music And Sound Design  |  Groundbreaking Partnership Introduces High School Students to Careers in Interactive Music Composition and Sound  |
  • Home of the Underdogs  |  How to Listen to Game Music  |
  • Kohina  |  Old school game and demo music  |  mp3 stream  |
  • Play-Asia.com  |  Music/Japanese Version/Video Game Soundtracks  |
  • Retro Game Music Streaming Radio  |  Japan: above link tranlates to English|
  • Zophar's Domain: Game Music Archives  |  Music soundtracks of Nintendo games  |  Music soundtracks of Sega Master System and Game Gear games  |
  • Game Music Home Page  |  Welcome to the first home page on the net dedicated to game music, opened in summer 1994, hence the antique design  |
  • Yahoo Directory  |  Video Games: Music  |
  • Game Studies  |  Play Along - An Approach to Videogame Music  |  This essay builds on a small body of critical writing dealing with videogame music including Mathew Belinkie's (1999) useful history of game music  |
  • Bjorn Lynne game soundtracks  |  Siege of Avalon PC All in-game music by Bjorn Lynne in General MIDI format. 8 MIDI songs  |
  • MP3.com  |  Composing Music Good Enough for Games  |
  • Tweak Town  |  Game Music Extraction Guide  |
  • Red Dragon Productions  |  Video Game Music and Sound Studio  |  weblog  |
  • RingtoneJukebox  |  Video Game Music Ringtones  |  Choose your favorite genre of music. We have thousands of polyphonic ringtones, phone games and wallpapers for your cell phone  |
  • game girl advance  |  Music archives  |
  • Bungie.net  |  Games : Halo 2 : AudioVideo : GameMusic  |
  • BBC: Collective  |  games #071: game music  |
  • Merregnon.com  |  Game music of Hollywood quality  |
  • Music.Download.com  |  Game soundtracks  |
  • The MIDI Shrine  |  Game Music MIDI files  |
  • BananaNetwork  |  Video Game Music  |
  • VideoGamesLive  |  Video-game composer plugs into the world of orchestral music
  • Wired  |  Battle of the Games Concerts
  • Digg  |  How To Build a Game In A Week From Scratch With No Budget
  • Digg / MS  |  10 Part Video Tutorial on How to Make Your Own 3D Game
  • Digg  |  Mood Music For Programmers
  • Musicdish  |  The Voice Behind The FIFA 2006 Virtual Game  |  Game mudic article  |

  • GamePlanet / NZ  |  World's first MP3 5.1, harmony recognition program  |
  • Music and video editing software company Magix' Music Maker 11 Deluxe is the world's first consumer software to recognise musical harmonies and display them onscreen automatically as guitar chords.
  • ComputerAndVideoGames  |  Harmonix readies Rock Band  |  Cambridge (Massachusetts)-based developer Harmonix has teamed up with EA and MTV to develop Rock Band, a new music game that takes Guitar Hero to the next level. Guitar, Bass, Drums and Vocals will all be available to give you the full band experience. Sounds awesome
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    Game Music:  Websites
  • X-treme Games Music  |  Only the best game MIDI, MOD, MP3, SID, SPC  |
  • Game Music Mania  |  GameMusic.com  |
  • TweakTown  |  Console game music created by fans  |  for the Nintendo 64  Playstation and Gameboy  |
  • Red Dragon Productions  |  Video Game Music  |  Sound Studio  |
  • CGMD  |  Console Game Music Direct  |
  • video-game-music.co.uk  |  Video Game Music  |  Amiga MODS  |  game music  |
  • Sigma's Video Game Music
  • Skytopia  |  Greatest C64 game music  |  Reviews & rankings  |
  • Emula Zone  |  Music Section  |
  • Learn music theory lessons with computer games
  • video game music, sound designer, experienced sound designer
  • website.lineone.net/~terrirob  |  game music section  |  here you can find some of the most catchy game tunes in midi format  |
  • Amazon.com  |  A Glance  |  Game Music  |
  • Sierra Game Music   |  Sierra Classics  |
  • BladeZone  |  The Online Blade Runner Fan Club & Museum  |
  • Richies Organ Page  |  Games  |
  • UnExoticA  |  Browse by format  |  Game Music Creator  |
  • Skytopia |  "Greatest Nintendo SNES music"  |
  • World of Game MODs  |  game music modules for download  |
  • Google Directory  |  Games > Video Games > Music  |
  • GameDev.net  |- Music & Sound  |
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    Composing Music For Video Games (Game Development Series)  by Andrew Clark
    Product Description:
    Video game music is a new and unique challenge in the history of music making. The composer is faced with the unprecedented challenge of organizing musical ideas that play and respond to the ever-changing action and player choices in a game. And due to notoriously tight game development schedules, low (or no) audio research budgets, limited published knowledge on the topic, and communication barriers between programmers and composers the possibility of poor audio development is a serious problem for the industry. Composing Music for Video Games examines the practical challenges of implementing a dynamic video game soundtrack that works, and presents a unified framework for approaching game audio production problems effectively. It shows that no matter how different the demands of various adaptive scoring problems may seem on the surface, they all share certain underlying characteristics. The book demonstrates how the basic principles of game music composition can be applied to the production of increasingly complex creative and effective soundtracks for virtually any imaginable game scenario.

    KEY FEATURES
    * Provides an insightful, unified framework for approaching game audio production effectively
    * Covers the underlying challenges and ideas of the field, and provides solid insights and examples of current technology and its strengths and weaknesses
    * Provides a clear, reader-friendly guide to complex technology
    * Uses working examples that readers can play with while learning the concepts, providing a tactile experience
    * Explores what’s possible with the current generation of technology tools, with an emphasis on Microsoft’s powerful and freely downloadable DirectMusic SDK
    * Discusses the issues and differences with midi-based audio and streaming audio
    * Includes a companion CD-ROM (Win) with all the demos and tools covered in the book
     

       
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    From Amazon.com
    The era of no-compromises handheld gaming has arrived. Get ready for immersive, 3D gaming on a console that is poised to change the way we think about portable devices. With wireless internet, video and digital music playback, and incredible data storage and connectivity options, the Sony PSP--or PlayStation Portable--is a complete solution for the mobile digital lifestyle. Sony has hit the mark by combining both horsepower and groundbreaking features into a package that weighs just a hair more than half a pound. 

    Design
    The PSP's exceptional performance comes from a 333 MHz processor that dwarfs the speed of competing handheld consoles. Add this polygon-pushing muscle to 4 MB of fast DRAM and 32 MB of embedded RAM, and you've got a device with graphics rendering capabilities close to that of the PlayStation2. And because no game is complete without audio, the PSP is generously appointed with built-in stereo speakers, as well Dolby Digital 7.1 surround sound capability. Sony has also pulled out all the stops with the PSP display. The bright, 4.3-inch LCD sports a 16:9 aspect ratio and 480 x 272 pixel resolution--plenty of real estate for heavy gaming action and widescreen-format movies. All of this is powered by a removable, and rechargeable, lithium-ion battery.

    From a controls perspective, the PSP is made for gaming. If you're familiar with a PlayStation controller, you'll be a pro at the PSP's controls in no time. Directional buttons, as well as an analog stick are provided. Meanwhile, the familiar left and right shoulder buttons, as well as triangle, circle, cross and square buttons are integrated into the device's slim case. Finally, home, select, and start buttons give you quick access and control over the PSP's important functions.

    Supported Media
    At the heart of the PSP is a new, proprietary media format known as the Universal Media Disc, or UMD. Each UMD can hold 1.8 GB of data, enough room for rich and complex games. UMDs, which are housed in a protective cover, slide into the rear of the PSP. Sony has declared the UMD an open format for developers and media content owners, so movies, music and other media are on the horizon from third parties. Sony has also signed on many popular game developers for the platform, so a deep library of titles is on tap.

    While the UMD is great for read-only media such as games and movies, Sony solves the problem of data storage with the addition of a Memory Stick Duo slot. With Memory Stick Duo media, you can store your saved games, downloaded online content, personal video and audio files, and more. When you want access to these files from your PC, simply use the PSP's USB 2.0 port to turn the device into a fast portable media drive. Then, drag and drop files such as your photos, MP3s, and videos onto the PSP, just as you would any other removable storage device. The PSP ships with a 32 MB Memory Stick Duo, and additional media with higher storage capacities are available.

    Connectivity
    The PSP blows away the competition in the connectivity department. Indeed, the PSP's ability to connect to the internet, and to other PSPs and USB-based peripherals, is a real advantage. At the top of the list is Wifi connectivity, or IEEE 801.11b. Use this wireless internet standard to connect to other gamers around the world for hot multiplayer action--all from your couch, or your local Wifi hotspot. As mentioned, the PSP's USB 2.0 port is great for PC connectivity, but it also opens the PSP up for a whole range of future peripherals. Sony has plans for the PSP in other ways, too; the unit's infrared port speaks of remote control capabilities in the near future.


     
     
     
    Game Music:  Composers
  • VIDEO GAME MUSIC COMPOSERS (huge list)
  • OverClocked ReMix  |  Unofficial Game Music Arrangement Community  |
  • CocoeBiz L.L.C. |  Promoter of Video Game Music Composers and Distributor of Soundtracks  |
  • RPGamers Network Forums > Gaming>Game Music
  • Student Game Developer Association - Composers  |  SGDA Forums  |
  • The Society of Composers & Lyricists  |  "Game Composers: An aggregate of 30 minutes of original music composed for any number of released titles. Only games that contain recorded music will be considered for eligibility."  |
  • Chunky Productions  |
  • Google: Directory  |  Video Game Composers  |
  • Steven Scherer  |  16 games  |
  • Game Creators  |  Audio  |  SoundMATTER  |  SFXEngine  |  Music Maker Sound Essentials Vol 1  |  Audio Cleaning Lab  |  Programmers  |
  • IMG Feature: Music In Computer Games  |  Game music composers  |
  • Yahoo: Directory: Music  |  Games  |
  • OneUpStudios  |  4 game composers  |
  • GameDev.net  |  Browsing Game Dictionary  |
  • Scores of Glory, Fantasy, and Plumbing  |  The Concise History and Principal Genres  of Video Game Music  |
  • Go! Game! Music!™ Reviews  |  Bill Brown Music  |  Music4Games has a new feature about the live orchestra session for Lineage II: Chronicle 1 - Harbingers of War (NCsoft) listing the production team and quoting Bill, An Yong Jin the Sound Director for the game and Stacey Yoon the Executive Creative Director on the experience.
  • Uematsu's Music  |  Music to "Ten Plants," a compilation of works by game music composers  |
  • Retrocactus.com  |  one of the most successful video game composers in history  |
  • Gamingforce Interactive Forums  |  Game Music  I.D. & Assistance  |
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