![]() ![]() I’m very proud to have been a part of the music team for this famous franchise. In the seven years since that auspicious day, players have explored the whimsical world of LittleBigPlanet in countless awesome adventures. The LittleBigPlanet franchise is 7 years old today! On October 28th, 2008, the very first LittleBigPlanet game was published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. That discussion included an exploration of what ‘vertical’ means in the context of such a music system:Ĭontinue reading → Leave a comment Posted in Game Music, Music Composition, YouTube Tagged A Composer's Guide to Game Music, bluegrass, Jessie, LittleBigPlanet 2, LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story, Toy Story, Vertical Layering, video game composer, western, Woody Game Music for the Holidays – Cover Tunes In my book, A Composer’s Guide to Game Music, I talked at length about how musical events can best be vertically constructed for the purposes of such complex interactive implementation. To make this possible, the layers needed to be most carefully constructed. As opposed to the three layer music system we discussed in the previous article, this vertical layering music model for the LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story game features six layers, all able to function simultaneously. Our discussion of Vertical Layering will focus on its use in one of my projects: The LittleBigPlanet 2: Toy Story video game (photo above). ![]() So now let’s take a look at a much more ambitious execution of vertical layering. ![]() In Part Three of this series, we learned about the simple Vertical Layering system of The Maw video game. ![]() Part Two of this series explored the more advanced Horizontal Re-sequencing system of the Spore Hero game from Electronic Arts. Welcome to the fourth and final installment of my four-part series on the basic structure and utility of interactive music systems, including video demonstrations that clarify the concepts. In Part One of this series, we examined a simple Horizontal Re-Sequencing model of interactive music, as used in the Speed Racer Videogame from Warner Bros. ![]()
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