Tuesday, December 6, 2011

GameOn - Indie Game Composers - Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld

Official Site: http://c418.org/

Source: Youtube Channel UndisciplinedStallio

Daniel Rosenfeld (known to most people simply as C418) was asked to do music for Minecraft when chatting with Markus "Notch" Persson (former Lead Developer of Minecraft" on an IRC server.  C418's work on Minecraft is more subtle and atmospheric as players would spend hundreds of hours in the world and wouldn't want a certain tune to play over and over again.  But because of this, the music is definitely a "Background" music used for the game.  I honestly couldn't really get into the music for Minecraft, but it worked well while playing...for the most part.  There's a lot of slowed down tempo piano-only tracks with an occasion of some synth pads and leads with very subtle beats on a few of the songs.  It's not so slow where it's sad, but lonelier.  It makes sense though since the game is mostly one guy building things within a world with zombies and those green exploding monsters showing up once in a while.  Rosenfeld plans on pursuing music within the gaming industry for as long as possible.  With the success of Minecraft and a fan-base for his music, it'd be great for him to continue.  If you like his music, be sure to visit his site up on top and purchase his soundtracks!

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