Dublin International Game Music Fest - April 3-5 2015

Zeouterlimits

Thought people might be interested, spotted this on Twitter a few days ago, there seems to be a game music festival being organised for next year.

https://twitter.com/idigmusicfest

I follow Eimear Noone on twitter, she's a composer for the newest WoW expansion and was involved in that touring Zelda Symphony, she seems to be heavily involved in the festival.

She's looking for suggestions for who people want to see there too.

BeerWolf

She's looking for suggestions for who people want to see there too.

Chris Hülsbeck and Jeremy Soule

And ofc, Koji Kondo... because EVERYONE knows his music, if not his name... [Pretty much all NES games, like Super Mario Bros, Zelda, etc.].

Retr0gamer

You won't get Koji Kondo, he's locked up with Nintendo afaik.

Would love to see Hitoshi Sakimoto, Michiru Yamane, Yasunori Mitsuda or Yoko Shimomura (but she would draw the Kingdom Hearts fans, you can't have everything I suppose).

BeerWolf

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Would love to see Hitoshi Sakimoto, Michiru Yamane, Yasunori Mitsuda or Yoko Shimomura (but she would draw the Kingdom Hearts fans, you can't have everything I suppose).

Now mention someone that isn't Japanese! :pac:

Scavenger XIII

Doubt you'd be able to get mad-famous Japanese composers over.

Hulsbeck is a good shout, I'd say try for David Wise as well.

Worth a think about, who're some other great composers who aren't as widely known or appreciated...?

mewso

Kai Rosenkranz for me. Probably wrote one of the greatest sountracks never heard (Gothic 3).

Kiith

Martin O'Donnell to play some Halo pieces...which definitely won't happen after he got fired.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yoko Shimomura (but she would draw the Kingdom Hearts fans, you can't have everything I suppose).

Lets not do that. I still remember the girl who was literally quivering and making weird noises when Kingdom Hearts was played at Video Games Live a few years go. Absolutely mental

BeerWolf

Kiith wrote: »

Lets not do that. I still remember the girl who was literally quivering and making weird noises when Kingdom Hearts was played at Video Games Live a few years go. Absolutely mental

o.O

Retr0gamer

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Doubt you'd be able to get mad-famous Japanese composers over.

A few years ago you wouldn't but now that the majority have gone freelance it's much easier to get them to do interviews and they are more willing to talk about projects than even the developers.

BeerWolf wrote: »

o.O

All you need to know is that Kingdom Hearts fans are scary and more than likely on the autism spectrum.

Scavenger XIII

Retr0gamer wrote: »

All you need to know is that Kingdom Hearts fans are scary and more than likely on the autism spectrum.

It sounds a bit... inflammatory but this is all too true.

Drawing those fans would in all honestly probably ruin it for everyone else.

BeerWolf

Retr0gamer wrote: »

All you need to know is that Kingdom Hearts fans are scary and more than likely on the autism spectrum.

OT: but I never played the Kingdom Hearts series... the whole Disney thing is a real turn off. Though I can see the appeal of the cartoony stuff to those with autism, so maybe you're right.

Retr0gamer

Well I was only joking. The games are fun even if the story is pretty much the worst thing ever written by humankind. Not all fans are like that but the ones that go to conventions... some of them are weird.

RobbingBandit

Nobuo Uematsu.

Mr. CooL ICE

Powerglove could be a laugh

Player 2

Pete McConnell

For his work on Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island series, (amongst many, many others!)

Zeouterlimits

Aside from O'Donnell & Salvatori [Halo, Destiny] and the obvious artists like Uematsu, Kondo, Mitsuda it would be cool to hear from weirder artists like SoulEye, chipzel, c418, etc.

Man, it would be wonderful if they could bring over Mitsuda.

Spunge

is nobody going to this ?
cant find any discussion on it.

johnny_ultimate

Going by the arcade & retro forum, they've priced a lot of their target audience out. I know they're trying to use Video Games Live to lure people towards the rest of the events with an all-inclusive ticket, but charging at least 65 euro for the worst seats in the house is super-cheeky. Especially since many will have little to no interest in a majority of the events (can I get a tenner knocked off since I couldn't care less about a frickin' 'CosBall'?)

N64

Yet to book my tickets, but I will most likely be going to this. €50 dosen't seem too bad for tier three tickets tbh

Vojera

N64 wrote: »

Yet to book my tickets, but I will most likely be going to this. €50 dosen't seem too bad for tier three tickets tbh

Use promo code DIT for a tenner off, expires today.

Spunge

i just got an email from blizzard saying i get a 30e discount if i use the link in the mail + discount code 'blizzard'

Sephiroth_dude

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Nobuo Uematsu.

Yes please!

gizmo

No love for Jesper Kyd? Boo-urns.

super_furry

Got top tier tickets for Christmas from the missus, can't bloody wait now.

MrMorooka

Wow, totally missed this event was happening! Great stuff, just the kind of thing Dublin needs more of

super_furry

Sure everyone knows by now but.....second from bottom http://zelda-symphony.com/schedule

imitation

You guys know they are selling concert only tickets ? Cheapest is still 40 quid but its more managable than the conference tickets. I love the music but it wouldnt extend to a 2 day conference really.

Edit: does feel a bit under subscribed, I wonder is it because the billing seems like it could be very blizzard heavy?

Vojera

imitation wrote: »

You guys know they are selling concert only tickets ? Cheapest is still 40 quid but its more managable than the conference tickets. I love the music but it wouldnt extend to a 2 day conference really.

Edit: does feel a bit under subscribed, I wonder is it because the billing seems like it could be very blizzard heavy?

Had there been concert-only tickets when they were first released I would have gotten them in a heartbeat, but I couldn't afford and didn't want tickets to the whole convention.

I only realised there were concert-only tickets available this week and I already have plans now for the Easter weekend. TBH I think they kicked themselves in the shins with this one, I reckon the concert would have sold much better if those tickets were available from the start.

super_furry

Have to say I'm pretty disappointed by the schedule. 11am to 5pm on Thursday and Friday with only the Videogames Live Concert on Saturday evening. Surely they could have moved the Thuesday stuff to Saturday when people won't be stuck in work? As it is, I won't get to any Thursday stuff, and there's nothing at all on Saturday apart from the concert.