DOOM: Behind the Music

Why HN readers recommended it

HN raves about it as one of the best conference talks, showing a master's creative process and sound design.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GDC Festival of Gaming

Topic

game music production

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• Here's one of the instruments from the Baschet workshop: [LINK] Mick Gordon–who scored the previous Wolfenstein game–did a great presentation on the instrument design for the Doom 2016 soundtrack, which is in my opinion one of the best (the best?) game soundtracks of all time: …

• This is really disappointing to read. Mick's soundtrack was a huge part of making DOOM 2016 and Eternal such great experiences. His talk at GDC where he goes into some of the process of creating the soundtrack is fantastic, so much fun to see the …

• Mick Gordon did some fun hidden spectrogram imagery in the Doom 2016 soundtrack. He talks about that and plenty of other cool stuff in his talk at the 2017 GDC conference. One of my favorite conference talks ever, he did so much cool experimentation to …