{"id":8973,"date":"2014-05-22T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:54:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:54:32","slug":"winifred-phillips-guide-to-game-composing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8973","title":{"rendered":"Winifred Phillips&#8217; Guide to Game Composing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ComposersGuideToGameMusic_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8936\" alt=\"ComposersGuideToGameMusic_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ComposersGuideToGameMusic_s.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>Since 2005, Winifred Phillips has been scoring video games in action, fantasy, family, and movie-themed genres, and her 2014 book <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8917\"><strong>A Composer\u2019s Guide to Game Music<\/strong><\/a> (MIT Press) presents a highly inspirational intro to her craft that\u2019s also applicable to related creative fields within the music, sound design, and editing disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>In tandem with the book review are a pair of related score reviews which have been integrated from the old KQEK.com database \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8922\"><strong>SimAnimals<\/strong><\/a> (2008) and <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8919\"><strong>Spore Hero<\/strong><\/a> (2009).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll also have another set of game soundtrack album reviews shortly, but prior to that will be a podcast interview, as soon as I finish up on some picky sound restoration. (This one\u2019s derived from a phone recording with wavering audio levels, mandating reshaping volume envelopes by hand.)<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book review of Winifred Phillips&#8217; A Composer&#8217;s Guide to Game Music (MIT Press) + related reviews integrated from the old website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2809,2562,2563,2812,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ComposersGuideToGameMusic_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2kJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}