By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow
So happy you’ve joined us! I’m videogame composer Winifred Phillips. Welcome back to our four part discussion of the role that music plays in Virtual Reality video games! These articles are based on the presentation I gave at this year’s gathering of the famous Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. My talk was entitled Music in Virtual Reality (I’ve included the official description of my talk at this end of this article). If you haven’t read the previous two articles, you’ll find them here:
- Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: The role of music in VR
- Composing video game music for Virtual Reality: 3D versus 2D
During my GDC presentation, I focused on three important questions for VR video game composers:
- Do we compose our music in 3D or 2D?
- Do we structure our music to be Diegetic or Non-Diegetic?
- Do we focus our music on enhancing player Comfort or Performance?
While attempting to answer these questions during my GDC talk, I discussed my work on four of my own VR game projects – the Bebylon: Battle Royale arena combat game from Kite & Lightning, the Dragon Front strategy game from High Voltage Software, the Fail Factory comedy game from Armature Studio, and the Scraper: First Strike shooter/RPG from Labrodex Inc.
In these articles, I’ve been sharing the discussions and conclusions that formed the basis of my GDC talk, including numerous examples from these four VR game projects. So now let’s look at the second of our three questions: