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Creating More Star Wars Music than John Williams with Composer Gordy Haab

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

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The Psychological Impact of Making a Mockup

I would spend like maybe two hours writing a little snippet of music and another eight hours trying to make it sound good with samples. And I just thought to myself, man, if I do this job and it's like, you know, four or five hours of music, I'm going to be here until 2030 trying to write the score of it. Yeah. That's not an intuitive thing in a video game hiring discussion ago. I'd like to write by hand. It shouldn't matter what your tool is. You're not wrong that there is a certain feedback loop of you hear the samples struggling to, to make the French horns do that. So you give it to something else because

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