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So happy you’ve joined us! I’m game composer Winifred Phillips, and one of my latest projects is my Grammy Award-winning music of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord: the 3d remake of the classic 1981 RPG that remains one of the top dungeon-crawlers of all time! (Listen and download the soundtrack). I’d like to welcome you to the sixth and final installment of my article series based on the lecture I gave at the popular Game Developers Conference of 2025! In my lecture, “A Score for Wizardry: World-Building Through Music,” I explored my composition process for this Grammy Award-winning score. Since most of us would not be able to attend GDC, I was happy to arrange the content of my 2025 GDC lecture into this six-part series. In these articles you’ll find the entire substance of my GDC lecture, along with all the audio and video examples and a large assortment of the images I used during my presentation. If you’d like to catch up with 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
GDC 2025 A Score for Wizardry: Music of Sanctuary
In part five of this series, we discussed the use of recurring themes in areas of sanctuary, and how those themes lent unified musical identity to the perilous Underworld maze. Now, moving on from exploring the maze, let’s talk about fighting the awesome monsters in Wizardry.