By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of my five-part article series on music composition techniques for stimulating tension and suspense in video games. These articles are based on the presentation I gave this year at the popular Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, entitled Homefront to God of War: Using Music to Build Suspense. If you haven’t yet read the previous four articles, you’ll find them here:
- Part One: Ominous Ambiences
- Part Two: Jarring Jolts
- Part Three: Creepy Clusters
- Part Four: Drones of Dread
Now that we’ve considered the power of Ominous Ambiences, Jarring Jolts, Creepy Clusters, and Drones of Dread, let’s take a look at the last item on our list of suspenseful music composition techniques – Semi Silence.