Should you’ve favored the audio work in action-adventure video games like Management, Evil West, and the upcoming multiplayer extraction shooter Hyenas, then you definitely’ll be a fan of the work from audio director Justin Andree. PCGamesN managed to seize Andree for a chat whereas at WASD 2023 in London, and we requested all of them about how Management’s finest musical second got here to be, and what to anticipate from Hyenas music later this yr.
Andree was a part of the explanation Management pulled off one in every of its finest sequences, when the tune Take Management performs within the stage Ashtray Maze. Take Management was particularly written for the sport by the fictional band The Outdated Gods of Asgard, an alias for real-world band Poets of the Fall, a Finnish Rock group that’s offered music for Treatment video games since Max Payne 2.
“I believe we’re beginning to see extra concepts like that current themselves in video games,” Andree tells PCGamesN at WASD 2023. “So my function in that was with was ensuring the songs match whereas asking ‘does this fully break the finances if we go for this one specific observe?’ Attempting to place the items of the musical puzzle collectively.”
You may see the Ashtray Maze stage in motion beneath, because of AKA HelloKitty on YouTube.
Andree goes on to speak about how video games like Management and Guardians of the Galaxy are utilizing in-universe bands and music to iterate on how music interacts with gameplay, and the way that may affect how builders take into consideration copyright points that will crop up additional down the road of their video games.
“The idea of getting Star-Lord as a band in Guardians of the Galaxy was genius,” Andree says. “Very often if you’re considering of licensing music to go in video games, the rapid factor behind your thoughts is ‘we’re gonna get hit with takedowns, and what if we go on to a special platform that’s not prevalent,’ whereas Guardians was lined completely.
“The Outdated Gods of Asgard try this in an analogous approach and supply for Treatment of their universe. They will freely wander via all of it and tie all of it collectively however then by no means actually hit any of those roadblocks that you simply would possibly come up towards when it comes to copyright restrictions.”
We additionally had the possibility to ask Andree about Hyenas, and whereas they didn’t say a lot concerning the upcoming extraction shooter from the Complete Struggle and Alien Isolation developer Inventive Meeting, we did be taught one thing concerning the tunes.
“The music performs a monstrously enormous half in it,” Andree tells us. “From various things that you’ll have most likely briefly seen in trailers to date, there’s some actually cool stuff.”
The Hyenas PC alpha may be signed up for, however we don’t have a launch date for the extraction shooter simply but. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to try our record of the very best FPS video games out there on PC proper now.
Interview carried out by Nat Smith at WASD 2023.
