Proper historical explanation of Video Game Music - yet quite entertaining to watch.I was a regular attender at the VGM festival IDIG2016, which included a viewing of 'Beep'.
Imagine a documentary about video game sounds....without ANY examples and without ANY video game music.
Beep looks at the history of how sound has been used in arcade gaming. It reviews the experiences of the people who had to make the decisions, both technical and creative in order to get the best user experience they could from the hardware that was available at the time.
First, I really enjoyed the history pictured in the documentary. It brought back a lot of memories and it was fun seeing back the old hardware and software I played with as a an adolescent.
I'm sorry, I grew up with the C=64, making music myself as well as later on with the Amiga and so on. I got really excited when I saw the title of this documentary, but it was unbelievably uninformative, whilst loaded with repetitive answers and next to no accompanying example.
Sure sometimes the music is overused and sometimes the editing could use some work, but seriously where else are you going to get this information and this variety of game audio professionals in a film?! It's such a valuable resource in game audio, with information conveyed in this documentary potentially lost to younger generations, it's a much needed piece of history.
I'm a video game developer, composer, and also an audio teacher. Having been involved with game audio for more than a decade, I'm familiar with the work of Karen Collins.
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