The Game Music

[többizz]

There's a lot of games being created around here and I'm curious about one thing;
Where do you get your music? Do you compose it yourselves or do you just steal some .mid-file somewhere?

If someone is looking for music for their game, I have a bunch of songs that I would glady let you use. If the game doesn't suck, that is. I mostly compose music in the vein of the dark ages and rennaissance.

[2ma2]

There are a whole range of people, just like you that compose and share their work with their community. Some make their own, others specifically asks people for specific types of music. Some just took whatever they came across (read me) which was stealing, but the internet was also young

I recommend you look up the ACR thread (if that's it's name), it is a sticky of people searching for specific types of work and offering specific types of work.

[Gord10]

Also http://www.vgmusic.com/ is a good resource for free midi's.

[PyroMonkey]

Lots of people make their own music using programs like Anvil Studio, but many also use sites like vgmusic.com. I don't know if you have to get permission or anything from these sites; I've never had to find out.

[Hamelkart]

Is it illegal to say, put mp3 of some x song (read Stairway to Heaven) or use music from some famous game?
I mean, it's not like you're gonna sell that game or anything.

[Nikolas]

Is it illegal to say, put mp3 of some x song (read Stairway to Heaven) or use music from some famous game?
I mean, it's not like you're gonna sell that game or anything.

Well it is...

No matter what you're going to do with the game, as "all reproduction, broadcasting etc..." is prohibited.

I don't think that anyone would hunt you down really for using it in a non comercial game, but on the other hand if I was Led Zeppelin, I might mind, that everybody is downloading the game and not buying my stuff from somewhere...

Better keep your ash clear...

And anywayz, there are a lot of composers around here. All you have to do is track them down...

[simulacra]

I used my game as an excuse to compose music. It turned out to be a 50 minute CD-quality soundtrack. Wah!

[bspeers]

Is it illegal to say, put mp3 of some x song (read Stairway to Heaven) or use music from some famous game?
I mean, it's not like you're gonna sell that game or anything.

I think the point is that the big huge megolithic super company with lasers and robots and a two-headed spider that shoots spiny balls of light that owns the music will not get a profit out of all the people you'd be sharing the music with.  They'd be getting the music for free, which is worse than you making a profit.  If you and they both made  a profit, that would be another matter entirely.

Basically copywrite law is designed to make AOL Time-Warner-Turner-IBM-Microsoft 4000 make money, and anything which doesn't maximize that is illegal.  Except for radio, which somehow counts as advertising.

[Corey]

http://www.modarchive.com/


this nice site gives all leet music music away for free. got great music yourself?? post it there...

[Hamelkart]

And what about simple background music and sounds from RPG's such as KotOR or Baldur?
I think 5 days a stranger used music from RPG maker. Or am I wrong?

[Nikolas]

If I'm not mistaken, Baldur was a Big game made from a big company, perfectly capable of paying a composer to write some music... But really I'm not sure at all... Generally about the music in commercial games. A game costs like 20-40 GBP, which means that if they sell 500 (only!!!) they get far more than enough to pay the composer. Unless we're talking here about huge games, which use a real symphonic orchestra and there you need huge amounts of money.

But again, in Europe, music for films is paid around 40000 GBP. It's not Holywood!

[simulacra]

Bioware who did Baldurs Gate definitely had a composer.