The secret tricks of video game composers

Jessica Curry with the latest and greatest music for video games. Today she's joined by composer Winifred Phillips who has scored some of the biggest game franchises from Assassin's Creed III: Liberation to God of War to Little Big Planet. She's also written a handy composers guide on how to write game music. Jess and Winifred chat about writing for those huge franchises, the glory of live games music concerts and what composers are getting up to in games. Plus composer and musician J.J. Ipsen calls up to introduce an exclusive new release - his music for the brand new game Planet Zoo, and Jess's Classic Track is an absolutely seminal score - music from Chrono Trigger by Yasunori Mitsuda. Get in touch - email [email protected] Full playlist: Yasunori Nishiki - Main Theme (Octopath Traveller) J.J. Ipsen - Title Theme (Planet Zoo) Laura Shigihara - Fish Heads and Morizora's Cave (Rakuen) Winifred Phillips - Main Theme; Aveline's Escape; Society Suite in 4 Movements (Assassin's Creed III: Liberation) Traditional Russian/Johann Sebastian Bach/Angèle Dubeau - Tetris theme Yasunori Mitsuda - Main Theme; To Far Away Times (Chrono Trigger) Michiru Yamane - Unfinished Business (Skull Girls) Christopher Larkin - City of Tears (Hollow Knight) Winifred Phillips - The Ziggurat Theme (Little Big Planet 3) Winifred Phillips - Main Theme (Dark Eye: Book of Heroes) Gustavo Santaolalla - The Last of Us (The Last of Us)