Bethesda released a new episode of “In the star field“, a series of videos where the developers show us some interesting information about the long-awaited new space game.
Audio Director Mark Lampert and Composer Inon Zur talked about the game’s audio design process..
“This is the fourth dimension, the emotional dimensionYour grades. “And so, to create it, you have to ask yourself these questions. Where are you going? You know, what is your motivation? What’s your story? What really drives us? That’s what really motivated me more than anything else. These huge questions are as big as space“.
In the video we see Zur composition of the main theme and talks about how his way of seeing Starfiled consisted of something called “the sacred triplet”. “Everything flows, doesn’t it? Everything changes and everything comes back. Here is its evolution, then return. So basically it appears, accumulates and comes back, like a circle.“. Lampert and Zur agree on this point.
“For example, we take the woods and create an entire layer of wood that almost represents particles in space, because they don’t play melodies at all. They play a kind of high frequency sequence. You know, like they were together. So they almost don’t sound like woodwinds.”
“They sound something between organic and synthetic. Then the strings will play these long chords, these long melodies, these long crescendos and diminuendos. And that kind of thing, with fast wooden winds, will create a nice cover around those waves. And then come the brass, and the brass, especially the horns, play like the beacon, the core of the brass.”
Lampert further notes, “These instrument clusters too, often when you’re watching that whole main theme that I’m salivating about?What can I do with this on the sound design side? Not only to integrate the main theme at various key points in the game, level up, discover new places, but also use it as a sound design“.
star field goes on sale November 11 exclusively for Xbox Series X/S and PCin addition to being first day on game pass.
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