EP69 Peter McConnell Interview

Join the community Discord https://discord.gg/59ENDfD​ NOTE: All live footage of Peter performing is provided by Two Player Productions & Paul Levering check out the Double Fine Adventure and Two Player Productions at the links below. Double Fine Adventure: https://youtu.be/AdXvZgIV1Q0​ Two Player Productions: https://twitter.com/2pproductions?lan...​ I've been a massive fan of point and click adventures all my life and of course one of the biggest of those has always been the games that were made at Lucasarts in the 90s. Behind all those amazing titles were some of the best scores and music ever composed for video games and I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to the man behind that vision Mr Peter McConnell.Peter McConnell has composed award-winning scores for a diverse range of video games including Broken Age, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, the Sly Cooper series, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Psychonauts, Brutal Legend and Grim Fandango. Before working independently, Peter composed in-house at LucasArts contributing to beloved franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Monkey Island. We spoke about his time on all of these amazing projects, from his time studying music theory at Harvard to working now on Psychonauts 2 with Double Fine Peter's Website: http://www.petermc.com​ Time Stamps: 00:00​ Start 05:00​ Peter's Early Education 16:00​ Lucasarts, the Beginning 23:00​ Monkey Island 2 & The dynamic sounds 27:00​ Day of the Tentacle Remastered 29:40​ The Gone Jackles & Full Throttle 32:00​ Grim Fandango & It's Music 45:30​ Psychonauts & The Early Days of Double Fine 50:00​ Broken Age aka Project REDS 55:00​ Psychonauts 2 & The Future 1:00:00​ Talking about Tim Schafer & Outro WE NOW HAVE A TIP JAR WITH KO-FI BUY US A COFFEE!ko-fi.com/digitalartcastCheck out IFCC a great online festival⯈ https://ifcc-croatia.com/​If you guys wanna support the podcast remember to shoot me a like or a comment and check us out on iTunes and Soundcloud also or if you are listening remember we have a YouTube video here also! #PeterMcConnell​ #DigitalArtcast​ #Lucasarts