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The Video Game Composer Podcast — 64 episodes

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What Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone Means for Your Game Composition Career

2

Don’t Sign That Yet: What Game Composers Need to Know About Deals with Noa Beazley

3

Is Your Music Satisfying To Listen To? w/ Jason Walsh

4

Stop Chasing Gigs: How Chris Rickwood Built a Career Where Work Finds Him

5

Essential Questions To Ask Developers When Planning a Games Soundtrack w/ Gina Zdanowicz

6

Creating Streams of Income As A Game Composer w/ Megan McDuffee

7

Developing the MIndset of a Pioneering Game Composer w/ Olivier Deriviere

8

Becoming Known As A Composer with Tobi Weiss

9

Two MUSTS If You Are Going To Make It As A Video Game Composer with Brendon Williams

10

The Top Skills Composers Must Have with Robbie Dolan

11

7 Must Know Building Blocks of Interactive/Adaptive Music with Michael Sweet

12

How To Write Music That Gets You Gigs

13

How To Improve The Quality Of Your Game Music with Ryan Ike

14

How To Be a Freelance Composer with Jeff Broadbent

15

How To Break Into Game Composing In 2024

16

Emotional Composing with AAA Composer Jeff Kurtenacker

17

Hogwartz Legacy Composer J Scott Rakozy

18

5 Year Career Anniversary

19

Fresh Composition Career Ideas with Vinicius Barbosa

20

From Elementary Educator to Video Game Composer with Nate Madsen

21

The Creators Journey: Interview with Composer David Fairfield

22

Musical Storytelling with Elias CEO and It Takes Two composer Kristofer Eng

23

Music of Guild Wars 2 with Maclain Diemer

24

3 Tips To Help Networking Become More Comfortable and Genuine

25

Growing Your Game Audio Career Through Omnipresent Visibility

26

Procrastination, the right running shoes, and your game career.

27

Most People Don't Do This: But it's Great For Your Career

28

Killer Testimonials: How to get testimonials that build trust

29

Networking: Friend or Foe?

30

CMFG - Music Enhances the Aesthetic

31

CMFG - Using Your Music to Give Context

32

CMFG Propelling Action Foward With Music

33

Game Developers Conference Post Mortem: a composers take away from GDC

34

CMFG - Music Heightens Emotions

35

Network like a pro with Akash Thakkar: How to prepare for GDC and other Game Developer Conferences

36

Inside the music of Gigasword with Jack Breen

37

CMFG - Set the mood...with a little music!

38

CMFG - Music Term of the Day: Diegetic?

39

CMFG - Tips on developing the scoring language

40

CMFG - Music Scoring Grammar

41

CMFG - You Are Already Fluent in the Music Scoring Language

42

Study Series Intro: Composing Music for Games (CMFG)

43

Quick Composing Tip: overcoming writers block

44

Three Production Tips To Immediately Improve Your Music

45

Staying Organized And On Top Of Your Business

46

April 2021 Business Report plus Special Announcement

47

Interview with Chance Thomas: Composer for DOTA 2 and Lord of the Rings Online

48

How much to charge as a composer and why you should charge for your services

49

Not Enough Money, Not Enough Time

50

3 Tips To Getting Your First Game Composition Gig

51

Prospecting: If you don't have clients, you didn't do this 3 months ago

52

The Four Pillars of a Video Game Composition Career

53

From Age of Empires to Halo Wars and beyond: Interview with composer Stephen Rippy

54

Networking and Omnipresence: Interview with Rachel Robison

55

Scarcity vs Abundance Mindset

56

Take Care of Your Money Tree: Allow yourself to sharpen the saw

57

Atomic Composer: Improving productivity with the Atomic Habits contract

58

The Morning Routine: Starting with Success!

59

music BUSINESS

60

Getting Your First Gig!!!

61

Creating Your Demo

62

First steps to starting your video game composer career

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Have Vision and Start! Step zero to become a video game composer

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Introducing The Video Game Composer Podcast