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The original Tomb Raider for the Playstation (that’s PS1 for the kids) was one of the few adventure type games I ever slogged all the way through to the end. In those days, Lara was a little light on the polygon count, but back then, I didn’t mind.
I listened to a lot of the orchestral [...]

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As a complimentary service to the game design community at large, I’d like to offer some advice. If you are going to have background music play during certain events in your game, make sure sure to have some variety in the music, especially if the player is going to have to listen to the same [...]

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I can understand entirely why some video games have no (or very little) background music. Two games I enjoy very much, Rainbow 6: Black Arrow and Ghost Recon 2, both for Xbox, have almost no music during game play. Both are tense, tactical shooter simulations. Both use sound as key part of game play. Both [...]

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