Alexey Nechaev
Alexey Nechaev is an award-winning video game composer who has worked on many high profile games including Inmost, Swag and Sorcery and, most recently, Unbound: Worlds Apart. This has been a recent hit on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC and is described as ‘a challenging, atmospheric and hand-drawn puzzleplatformer set in a universe where all worlds are connected by portals’. Here Alexey details the various challenges faced with composing for the game, his favourite hardware and software, and has some sage words of advice should you wish to follow his path into video game composition…
Computer Music: What advice do you have for anyone wanting to get into game music?
AN: “Strange as it may sound, listen to more game music! I believe that listener experience is the best teacher. You should also listen to movie soundtracks to learn some interesting things. After that, play games and note to yourself what the differences are between game soundtracks and any other kinds of music. It will help you integrate into the games industry, especially if you already compose music.
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