The best laid schemes o’ mice and men, oft go astray.…1.1

The promised joy of a brilliantly devised music design can disintegrate into vaporware without effective music implementation. So much potential, so many magical moments in a game have been dashed to pieces simply because music files were never implemented as designed. To drive the point further, consider that every principle, method, practice and process addressed in this book can be reduced to total irrelevance for the player, without proper music implementation. Yes, implementation is the all-powerful bottleneck through which all else must pass!

It is ironic that a process so far removed from traditional music scoring—for instance there ...

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