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Hello all,

Being my first post on this forum, I want to try and keep this as relevent to music as possible.

Let me talk to you about a video game hehe...

I was contacted by someone designing a video game for a non-profit organisation. It will be an RPG (kind of like final Fantasy).

I was very excited to take care of a music team that will be designing music for a pretty cool medievla fantasy game. I was wondering if anyone else would be interested.

My vision is to provide different styles because there is a wide array of gamers (with different musical tastes) that will be listening to the soundtrack.

I have a lot of DnB, some makeshift happy electronica with an industrial feel, some experimental electronica, and then some straight up gaming music. I would like to add some trance to that, so I was wondering if anyone would be intested in making some music that had a video game feel to it. It would be greatly appreciate.


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Ummm, can you elaborate how do you plan to incorporate electronic music into a Fantasy RPG game? Now only how, but why??

if it's medieval shouldn't we stick with a medieval theme, or at least a symphony score?

i mean, would have LOTR:TT or FOTR be as an effective movie experience with trance or some other electronic music playing?

is electronic conduicive to that games environment?

yeah thats what I was wodnering
if your rpg isg going to be final fantasy-ish...

final fantasy is famous for having amazing soundtracks every single time
the epic orchestral scores fit the whole fantasy feeling
nobuoe (sp?) is a musical genius
i think trance would fit better in a sci fi game....

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Originally posted by Pyromancer224 final fantasy is famous for having amazing soundtracks every single time the epic orchestral scores fit the whole fantasy feeling nobuoe (sp?) is a musical genius i think trance would fit better in a sci fi game....

I disagree, trance would fit perfectly. You gotta remember that final fantasy's were not in a medievil setting (more suited to orchesta and strings) but were in a fantasy setting that encorporated machines and technology. This setting allows for more modern genres to fit nicely. A song that comes to mind is the boss battle theme in ffvii, it definately was not orchastra-ish.. but more electronic. Trance would give the game some energy, and would set a specific mood (depending on the situation in the game).

I think it's a great idea.

Welcome to TA, Quotam! Good luck with the video game.

Yaaa man, I always hear electronic tracks and I seriously think "Wow, I wish they put tracks like these in games instead of the cheesy shit I hear all the time." I really do think about that!

I know what he's talking about. Not Final Fantasy music. There was this awesome tracking group called ToM (Torture of Music) back in the old days that did exactly this kind of music - it had a medieval atmospheric feel to it but also a beat with a kick. I still listen to those tracks for fun once a while, they really are trippy.

I've written some game tracks but they're more orchestral or electro style. For some reason I don't have much luck with pure epic trance. I could give it a shot though, if you've got a theme for us to work with.

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I disagree, trance would fit perfectly. You gotta remember that final fantasy's were not in a medievil setting (more suited to orchesta and strings) but were in a fantasy setting that encorporated machines and technology. This setting allows for more modern genres to fit nicely. A song that comes to mind is the boss battle theme in ffvii, it definately was not orchastra-ish.. but more electronic. Trance would give the game some energy, and would set a specific mood (depending on the situation in the game).

i believe the reason why that song did not sound orchestral is because all the music in ffvii was in midi format (at least on computer, and the psx version is comparable so im going to clump it together)
if you listen to the actual cd soundtrack
its orchestral

My friend has a game called "Ghost in the Shell" and it involves a real futuristic industrial vibe. THe music is alot like techno and it fits well. I'm not a gamer but sometimes I hear decent tunes on my friends PS2 games and in some computer games etc..

I think making music for video games (decent music) that fits etc...would be hard.

Good luck to anyone in this endeavour.

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Originally posted by Pyromancer224 if you listen to the actual cd soundtrack its orchestral

Nope, I own the FF7 OST, and the music is exactly as it sounded in the game.

They did release a FF7 soundtrack that included orchestrated songs, but they only did a few like that. dont get me wrong though, there is alot of orchestral music in the game, and its amazing, but there is also some more 'electronic' tracks (even though they are not really trance).

Anyway, ignoring all the useless banter...

I think it'd be fun to give this a shot. Quotam, are you reading this thread? I guess I'll drop a line by e-mail tomorrow if I don't hear anything on the forum. Just want to know some details.

now I went and got out my ff7 ost.. lol.

There is alot of electronic music on it.. heavy synth use, and even some trancey stuff.

For example these tracks:

J-E-N-O-V-A
Still more fighting
Underneath the Pizza
Oppressed People
Crazy Motorcycle
Electric de Chocobo
Cinco de Chocobo

and alot more..


ah listening to this makes me want to play the game again!

alright if you actually own the soundtrack then whatever....but i think maybe you're missing my point
i wasn't focusing on just ffvii but the ff series as a whole
i think its safe to say the MAJORITY of the songs are orchestral....then there are things like chocobo remixes that dont really count

yeah the song from the ghost in a shell intro movie for psx is tight
thanks for reminding me about it, i lost the song when i reformatted
*me goes to find song*

welcome to TA. just for future refrence, there is a video game forum for stuff like this. now post your ass off so your not in training any more

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Originally posted by DJ Chrono now I went and got out my ff7 ost.. lol. There is alot of electronic music on it.. heavy synth use, and even some trancey stuff. For example these tracks: J-E-N-O-V-A Still more fighting Underneath the Pizza Oppressed People Crazy Motorcycle Electric de Chocobo Cinco de Chocobo and alot more.. ah listening to this makes me want to play the game again!

ff7 ost has to be the best fucking soundtrack ever for the best fucking rpg ever made in history!!

i love the game to death.. especially kinghts of the round.. omfg *drools* sorry i just had to spill my guts

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