GDC: Takada: 'Writing Game Music is My Mission' (WII)

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You'd have to be an interesting guy to do the score for Suda 51's Killer7 and No More Heroes. Grasshopper Manufacture's Masafumi Takada talked about creating those soundtracks and more yesterday at GDC.

by David Radd on Friday, February 22, 2008

Grasshopper Manufacture's Masafumi Takada presented a discussion of his music (and fire prevention, he joked) to a welcoming crowd after an introduction by Tommy Tallarico. For thirty minutes, he discussed his process in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, God Hand, Killer7, and then No More Heroes. The theme for his music design was "translation:" taking some aspect of the game, or some feeling, and putting it into the music. In addition, he relies on unique, catchy phrases that are repeated throughout each game's soundtrack, to "imprint the world" of the game on the player.

Full article available at Joystiq.