The musical score is often one of the little-appreciated aspects of MMOs, providing mood, tone and emotion for the player while hopefully refraining from being annoying or too repetitive.
In a new dev diary, Trion Worlds showcases the audio talent behind Rift: Planes of Telara's score. Audio Director Yannis Brown and Composer Inon Zur (Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout: New Vegas) talk about how the music lends itself to character identity and the environment's atmosphere, while giving us an aural sneak peek of Rift's tunes. One of the cool concepts the audio team is the creation of multi-layered music tracks that provide the same theme in different degrees of intensity based on how big the rifts have grown.
Hit the jump to watch the diary and hear for yourself whether this will be a game in which the default score stays on -- or gets quickly turned off in favor of personal playlists.
Reader Comments (9)
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 7:47PM paterah said
All swtor, tera, rift and gw2 individually seem to have some serious talent in their scores. Always nice to see the devs actually caring about the smaller aspects of a game.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 8:51PM yeppers said
Epic... I am SOOOO looking forward to this game -- despite all the MMO-hype-heartbreak the last couple of years.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 9:53PM Ardwulf said
That's got to be the most badass name I've heard in quite a while.
Posted: Nov 8th 2010 10:48PM End Dream said
Not that I'm especially interested in Rift but the best part about eq2 is the music.
Posted: Nov 9th 2010 2:06AM (Unverified) said
lol everyone in Trion is bold!
Posted: Nov 9th 2010 5:52AM (Unverified) said
Yes it seems they are getting ready to "baldly go where no man has gone before" hehe!
On-topic: I suffer from the same condition... Must be all those years of CRT radiation..
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On-topic: I suffer from the same condition... Must be all those years of CRT radiation..
Posted: Nov 9th 2010 4:07AM Lobotomist said
This game is shaping to be true sleeper hit
Posted: Nov 10th 2010 11:43AM pixelmonkey said
Sounds like the game is going to have some great mood setting music!








