NACVGM 2020 – Musically Queering Love in the Monstrous World of Undertale
Standard, objective-based gameplay reminds the player of their shortcomings with unsympathetic “game over” screens before giving them the options to try again or quit. However, Undertale (2015)...
NACVGM 2020 – Interpreting the Music of (8-)Bit Brigade: Speed Runs and Speed Metal
8-bit Nintendo music, with its driving rhythms and readily identifiable thematic characters, lends itself nicely for adaptation into a metal musical milieu. And that borrowing, when paired with the...
This presentation discusses fan adaptations of music from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, arguing that they maintain the semiotic meaning of the games’ original music while changing some...
In the early 1980s, the Atari corporation collaborated with several major studios to create games based on popular franchises, resulting in both commercial successes (like Star Wars, 1983) and...
NACVGM 2020 – Taking a Gander at the Use of Debussy in Untitled Goose Game (2019)
In September 2019, indie game studio House House released Untitled Goose Game (UGG), in which the titular bird pesters the residents of quaint English village to snippets of Debussy’s Préludes...
NACVGM 2020 – Sed Non Eodem Modo: The Origins of Ludomusicology Compared to Musikwissenschaft
In the past decade, an expanding body of research has been conducted on music in video games, manifest in topic-specific academic conferences and publications, all resulting in the emergent field of...
