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Hey everyone! I’m video game composer Winifred Phillips, and I’m excited to share that I’ll be giving a talk at the upcoming Game Developers Conference! My talk is entitled, “Composing for Lineage M: Modular Construction in Game Music,” and it’s taking place on Wednesday March 23rd at 10:30 am PT (1:30pm ET). In my presentation, I’ll be focusing on my experience composing music for a game in one of the most successful video game franchises of all time – the Lineage MMORPG franchise from NCSoft. During my talk, I’ll be sharing details of the music composition process for this awesome project, including how thematic content was incorporated into the matrix of musical components that formed the structure of the Lineage M musical score.
I won’t be getting into much detail about the substance of my upcoming GDC presentation in this article. However, it occurred to me that musical themes are a popular discussion topic that has come up in many of my past GDC presentations. With that in mind, I thought I’d offer a short review of the subject, including some content from a few of my previous GDC talks. I’ve confined this discussion to my GDC sessions that are now available to view for free in their entirety via the videos list in the Game Developers Conference Official YouTube channel. You’ll see that I’ve embedded the full-length YouTube videos of those talks below, in case you’d like to see the lectures in their entirety. For each of these presentation videos, I’ve also included a few short lecture extracts that touch upon the relevant subject matter. So let’s get started!