Hatrack River Forum: What do I do to get into that career?

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Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :

This may sound a little weird, [Blushing]

but I've always wanted to compose music for video games. Does anyone know how to get into that?
[Dont Know]

Posted by Richard Berg (Member # 133) on :

Have a large portfolio. Do lots of music for its own sake, then offer to synch it for free/shareware. Then get either a reputation, a personal "in", or a big piece of luck. The number of people it takes to do a wide swath of game music is surprisingly small especially compared with the talent pool of electronic musicians in this electronic age, so you'll need it [Smile]

[ May 03, 2004, 02:22 AM: Message edited by: Richard Berg ]

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

I'd second the freeware/shareware idea. It would also help to team up with a budding animator and score some cartoons - it would be a good way for both of you to build a portfolio.

Dagonee

Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :

!!

*checks for buds*

Whew!

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

You might also consider licensing it under the creative commons license . . . they'll publicize anything under that license which gets used moderately prominently (such as in freeware/shareware) all around the geekiverse.