The holiday season is in full swing, with the New Year right around the corner, so here’s some more game music that’s perfect for the holidays…and one bonus track that I composed for LittleBigPlanet 3 (I’m told it makes most everybody think of Christmas!)
Happy Holidays, everybody! It’s become a tradition in this blog to share some holiday tunes from some awesome video games, so here’s a selection of holiday cover songs to fuel your festive spirit (and one bonus cover song with a very different take on the holiday spirit). Enjoy!
Happy Holidays, everyone! 2015 has been a really memorable year for me, and a successful one for my book, A Composer’s Guide to Game Music. Writing this book not only allowed me to express my excitement about game music, but also opened up my world to a huge community of game music enthusiasts that I’m now proud to call friends.
I’ve been delighted to meet so many people who have read my book – from aspiring composers, to scholars and educators, to game audio pros. It’s been tremendously gratifying!
I’d like to spend this blog recapping the events of 2015 as they related to my book, and I’ll also be sharing some book-related resources and tutorials that I created in 2015 (in case you missed them). Happy Holidays, everyone, and thank you so much for your tremendous support this year!
Winifred Phillips speaking about interactive music systems at GDC 2015
I’m so pleased to announce that I’ve been selected as a speaker for the Game Developers Conference 2016, which will take place from March 14th to the 18th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Very happy to be speaking again at GDC! Last year I gave the #3 top-rated talk in the audio track, which is the collection of presentations focused on audio during the conference. Last year’s slate of audio talks was thoroughly awesome, so I was really excited to be voted the #3 talk that year, and it’s a tremendous honor to have been invited back to give another game audio presentation. This time my talk at GDC will focus on composing effective music for mobile games!
Clash of Kings, music composed by Winifred Phillips
I’m very happy to announce that I’ve composed the music for the Clash of Kings video game! Developed by ELEX, Clash of Kings is a popular real-time strategy game, and one of the top-grossing mobile games in the world, downloaded over 65 million times worldwide. In Clash of Kings, players build kingdoms, compete to gather the most resources, join alliances and fight other cities in awesome combat across expansive battlefields.