First Game Music & Audio

Our music composer/audio designer for Tilium is Erik Dost. He's a second year student as well at the USAT and he joined us in this project as an experiment. Erik has never made music and sounds for games before and he eagerly wants to experience how this is done.

When we had to come up with the concept presentation, Erik made a song which was his first attempt to capture the feeling of the world of Tilium. Using classical instruments only, he silenced us when we first heared it. Pretty amazing if you have never seen anything from the game before and only knew from what we told him.



After hearing this we decided that the game music will only use classical instruments because it was so convincingly adding that extra layer to the game.

Melody

I came up with a melody one day and I asked Erik if he could make it. The melody will be the in the main theme song and recurs throughout the game when something important happenes, such as a change of mood or a final battle. The melody can be played very slowly so that it sounds sad, and very fast so that it sounds energetic. He asked me how it sounds and so I sang it to him. He then made this first attempt to create the melody on a piano.


And he made a longer version as well.



I loved what he did with the piano, but I didn't know if this melody will work if it's played faster because the orriginal is slightly different and has other tones. But to be honoust it sounds better then the orriginal, so we need to compare them.

The game features a music box and I came across an old fashion music box melody maker in a shop in Amsterdam where you can make your own melody by punching holes in a card. We haven't had the time to do this yet because I don't know how to read music notes and make the melody, and our meeting last Friday was to short to do it.