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Hey there! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and in March 2025 I presented a lecture at the Game Developers Conference about my Grammy Award-winning score to Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. “A Score for Wizardry: World-Building Through Music” explored both the historical research and creative process that went into the composition of this medieval and Renaissance-style score. The Game Developers Conference is a very popular event each year, but since not all of us would be able to travel to San Francisco to attend, I’ve gone ahead now and included the entire content of my GDC presentation in this article series! These articles also include videos, audio files and images that I used during my talk. In case you haven’t read the previous installments of this series, you can find them here:
GDC 2025 A Score for Wizardry: World-Building Through Music
GDC 2025 A Score for Wizardry: Medieval World-Building
GDC 2025 A Score for Wizardry: Medieval Style
GDC 2025 A Score for Wizardry: The Underworld
In part four of this series, we were exploring how to musically intensify trepidation while players explore the perilous Underworld maze beneath the Wizardry castle. The dungeon labyrinth is a treacherous place! But there are a couple of bastions of safety here.