Game Sounds,Tunes and Melodys.

Game sounds have been around as long as games themselves. As in the first games it was mostly just miny explosion sounds or little tunes playing in the background, usually as a way of keeping you entertained. If I was to play a game and have no sound or music I would most deffinately not play it.
It is for this reason many composers have pick up on and know as the games industry has expanded so has its music. Now their is an assigned job for composers in games and in my oppinion an important one two.
As a gamer and safe in the knowledge that I know other gamers feel the same way. You can depict what game other people are playing just by listening to the music or just as simply hearing their phone go off and the ringtone be a theme of some sort or important line or verse.
While we are on the subject of game themes, I cant seem to stop humming the theme to LOTR. Something needs to be done about that game cause it is taking over the lab and now im humming it!Anyway sound in games are used in so many ways. They create the theme music, sounds of the environment, right down to the voice of the characters. It gives a feeling and emotes an emotional reaction. Wether that reaction be positive or negative. I think that due to advances in games and the level of detail that goes in is much higher mre has been expected of the sound and music of games. For example, in games now their are pieces of music that is significant to just one character. As simple as that may sound that can get, a player to respond emotionally toward that character. If you were to create a Bad guy, you would give them evil music. If they were good then maybe heroic sounding music would be played. But also when you want a comic element to a game, occassionally characters are made to be humorous, they are given clumzy sounding music or fair ground type music.
So know when we think about sound in games we have to consider all different aspects of what that covers in a game.
HaHaHa 'Good Times' It's good but over used.
My mum's a big soul fan and so I knew straight away it was Chic. Not sure why it was so big but deffinately well known. Found this quote from a tribute website about Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards.
"Members of the Dance Music Hall of Fame !
THE most successful writer/producer team of the DISCO era. By some people compared to the famous partnerships of Lennon/McCartney and Richards/Jagger."
In my oppinion I dont really like The Beatles so seems pretty acurate to me. If you wanna check out the website go to: http://www.disco-disco.com/tributes/chic.shtml
I think possibly most of the yonger generation will remember the song because of 'Spank the Monkey', a silly flash game where you .... yeah you guessed it spank the monkey and see who did it fastest.
To round up this task I will say that I think that the one sound in games that really gets me going is 'One Winged Angel', which is the final battle music of Final Fantasy 7 where you face off against the awesome Sephiroth. Which of course we have the great Nobuo Uematsu to thank for composing it.
Well till next time cya.