But there’s more room to experiment with sounds. “So you’re always trying to mask the system and have it be as musical as possible. They had to write those instruments in there to serve this function,'” Schachner said.

“You don’t want to be listening and think ‘Oh, that’s that layer. Schachner said minimalism isn’t really possible in a game like Modern Warfare because of that system, but it does mean there’s a lot of room to experiment. “But it’s a give-and-take of where the freedom is because you have to write to these pretty complicated technical systems, and I think the challenge with games is you kind of want to hide what the system is.” “There’s more freedom in that you’re not scoring a picture, you’re not constantly needing to support a narrative and dialogue,” she said. Video games aren’t like movies, but there’s still dialogue to work around and a lot of gunfire. Schachner described the machine at play inside an action-adventure game like Modern Warfare, with a character’s actions and movements impacting what the game lets your hear. A post shared by Sarah Schachner 🎶 music for video games is very different different than scoring other mediums.

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