Do we know who the composer for AP is yet? Is it the new sound guy at Obs (who did MotB/SoZ)?

Jason Graves, but also Alex Brandon.

I wish they would copy the sound design from STALKER. Not much music at all, that is. I really hope the music is at least VERY toned down when I am on a stealth mission.

 

Radio channels is also a great idea (see Fallout 3) as you can switch them around or turn them off at will.

 

By the way, I absolutely loved the guys playing guitar around the campfires in STALKER. I know I keep harping on about it, but that was such a genius move by the developers.. How often in a game do you stop playing and just enjoy standing around and listen to the surroundings? Very seldom for me!

Praise to Obsidian for getting one of Deus Ex's composers, Alex Brandon.

Here I am hoping for a soundtrack similar to what CoD4 had in mind.

Methinks Harry Gregson-Williams is a little beyond Obsidian's budget

Methinks Harry Gregson-Williams is a little beyond Obsidian's budget

I think CoD4 was mostly Stephen Barton.

Breaking News

 

BT is keeping busy through the holidays. The artist has been selected to score the new Pixar short film "Cars-Tokyo Mater!" The musician says, quote, "I am beyond thrilled. It's the first think I've ever done that my daughter thinks kicks ass." BT also recently completed what he calls, quote, "a dub-step, glitched-out, orchestral-freak out" for the new Sega game "Alpha Protocol," and he's in the process of collaborating on or remixing tracks for Shiny Toy Guns, Christian Burn, and Catherine Wheel's Rob Dickenson. There is also a new BT studio album in the works for 2009, with a tour on the horizon as well.

 

Source

 

Personally if I was going to record dubstep for a game there would be artists I'd go to before BT (as a general rule I think Trance is garbage), but the man's a professional and very slick (he produced "Pop" for N'Sync), so it's understandable. Man can probably work a deadline like nobody's business.

Edited December 5, 200817 yr by Pop

Obviously Funcroc is loosing his touch.

Mebbe. When you turn on google alerts for "alpha protocol" you tend to get either A. regurgitations of the dev diary by blogs (Rorie's doing or natural events?) or B. Reactions to a change in the uTorrent program. Apparently they switched from VOIP to UDP or... something. But the word "protocol" is thrown around a lot and so it gets picked up by the alert system.

Here's another important question: after the first mission, do we get Bond-style intro credits and all that entails?

^I want that in. Actual intro credits after the first mission(tutorial, perhaps?).

Prologues are always awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5T5rc71qGQ

 

Definitely something like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxjmwu1Jrx0

The game needs the more serious, the smooth and subtle type of music, like Syrianna.

 

No Bond noise nonsense in AP please.

http://www.bsospirit.com/entrevistas/jasongraves_e.php

 

BS: What kind of musical approach we will find in Alpha Protocol?

 

JG: Fortunately for me, not the same one as Dead Space! Alpha Protocol is a spy/espionage game, so there

Edited January 7, 200917 yr by funcroc

The heart of the score is orchestra, but the locales of the game allowed me to augment the orchestral pallette with subtle eletronics and some great ethnic instruments, many of which I played myself

 

*drool*

http://www.rednoteaudio.com/

 

Alpha Protocol-Sega

Orchestral music.

 

Not too sure about electronically augmenting the orchestral pallet, though. I'm a bit of an acoustic purist, I suppose.

Not too sure about electronically augmenting the orchestral pallet, though. I'm a bit of an acoustic purist, I suppose.

 

Got examples? Would you say Deus Ex had an electronic edge and Fallout an acoustic one...? What was Icewind Dale?

Orchestral music that actually fits the setting would be fine, instead of just going Beethoven everywhere. Mix in some regional sounds and you've got gold.

Rob huh? I haven't seen any show or played any game he has composed for. It will be fun to hear something unique for once, he better be good