{"id":1487,"date":"2013-10-04T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T12:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2013-10-04T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:06:47","slug":"the-importance-of-custom-soundtracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-importance-of-custom-soundtracks\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of custom soundtracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMy dog Skipper in his usual begging face<\/em>
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In the past, I used to have royalty free music in my games. Partly because I couldn’t afford to hire musicians, partly because I didn’t think that having original music was so important.<\/p>\n

But one day, I saw this quote by Friedrich Nietzsche on a website:<\/p>\n

Without music, life would be a mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I immediately jumped on my seat and realized how wrong I was!!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Jokes apart, it wasn’t such an enlightening moment but pretty close. I used to have theme songs in some past games (Always Remember Me for example) but wasn’t until Heileen 3 that I decided to have a full custom soundtrack. And when I saw how much people appreciated that, and the possibility to download the music tracks (along with other bonus stuff) in the “bonus content” version of the games, I realized that indeed before I made a big mistake.<\/p>\n

So what does this mean? it means that, always keeping an eye on budget, I’m going to have full soundtracks and in certain cases even theme songs for all my future games!<\/p>\n

For example, you can hear a snipped of Undead Lily theme song below (is weird and scary but because of the game theme):<\/p>\n