Composing Music for Video Games

Through weekly writing assignments and audio-visual demonstrations, you gain an understanding of the composition techniques, organization, and delivery formats unique to the video game industry. Topics include in-game versus cinematic scoring, budgeting and project management, contracts, technology tools for asset creation and processing, music engines and compositional techniques specific to video game music, electronic music creation versus using live musicians, mixing, composing for different game genres and audio formats, delivery of assets for different console formats, and pitching for projects. Weekly composition assignments focus on writing original adaptive music similar to works created for current games.