Riley

I think the main problem with WAR’s music, was a byproduct of the game’s direction. I believe that in its initial conception, it was meant to be a combined PVE+PVP experience with the PVE part being the prevailing one. Of course, all the former DaoC players where expecting PVP and nothing else. The combined nature of the game was not properly understood (or advertised for that matter) and the hardcore PVP crowd and the endless bugs slowly managed to suffocate the PVE crowd (which was going to be the larger one anyway) and drove WAR in a PVP-centric design. This resulted in the main bulk of the music to only being heard from people that were questing when they entered the chapter hubs and the PVE instances, which is clearly a minority (and a shame really). The scenarios had a music of their own but their intensive nature hindered the music listening (although I always enjoy the Caledor Woods theme!).

I believe many think the music was great. If you want to have a look, the thread is here

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/232/index/5761757.

Again, thanks!

secondly, i’m pretty sure you can grab most (if not all) of the major pieces off the warhammer online site (http://www.warhammeronline.com/music/index.php). oh wait…i just jumped over there and, yeah. it looks like there’s only about 25% of what’s in the game up there (100% of the ‘major pieces’ can be streamed from this page). lame. ah well. yeah, a CD soundtrack was not part of the WAR box because…oh wait, i have no bleeping clue as to why that was. lame. :)

lastly, the appreciation thread. sounds like that could become troll bait pretty quickly, lol. in my experience, most comments about the music in WAR are along the lines of, “there’s music in WAR?”. Or, “nice music…when you can find it”.

while i do think the music itself is good, the integration was not. and the credit for the former and blame for the latter both lie with me. but that’s a much longer story, for another time….

ah, Warhammer.

again, thanks for your comments!

Even so, I would like to thank you for the excellent music you’ve created. I’ve started an appreciation thread on the official WAR forums. I’m looking forward to your next project!

This is a long shot but i’m just wondering if you may still have some game audio’s from ‘ Starship Troopers Battlespace ‘, or maybe you know of a website where we can find both the audio and graphics|screenshots from the game.

Thank You. ~ ed

that’s just a matter of me running the game with local data – audio that i have but no one else does. and artists do it with art. and programmers do it with code. that way everybody can work on their own little bit, changing all kinds of stuff locally without breaking stuff for everyone else in the meantime. then when the local changes are good to go, they’re submitted and merged into the game as a whole.

this sort of thing is managed via “version control” software, like perforce (http://www.perforce.com/). though that site is mind-numbingly boring and cookie-cutter-corporate, perforce is pretty amazing. i’ve worked on projects w/o it (or any other version control software), and it’s fairly nightmarish.