Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord has received the Grammy for Finest Rating Soundtrack for Video Video games and Different Interactive Media.
Accepting the award, composer Winifred Phillips thanked developer Digital Eclipse and the viewers for “believing in music for video games and recognising it and for respiratory life and enthusiasm and power into what we do. It means a lot.”
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the 3D remake of the primary sport within the Wizardry sequence. 1981’s medieval fantasy Wizardy is taken into account the primary party-based online game RPG ever launched, and is credited as inspiring the likes of Last Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is constructed immediately on high of the unique sport’s code. You possibly can even view the unique Apple 2 interface as you play.
Phillips took dwelling the prize forward of massive hitter nominees together with Wilbert Roget, II for Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws, John Paesano for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Bear McCreary for God of Struggle Ragnarök: Valhalla, and Pinar Toprak for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
In a follow-up interview, Phillips stated she was “blown away.” “I actually didn’t count on it,” she added. “The class was populated with a lot brilliance this yr, and I’ve a lot deep respect for the opposite nominees on this class. So to have been acknowledged is only a spotlight of my profession. It actually is.”
“We do a really distinctive factor,” Phillips continued. “We’re creating music that should accompany people who find themselves having an expertise and who’re making decisions, and having adventures and residing a grand story, and we’re creating the music for that story. It’s such a beautiful privilege since you really feel such as you’re collaborating with the gamers. Like you recognize them and so they know you. It’s actually very particular.”
Earlier winners of the coveted award embrace Stephanie Economou for Ubisoft’s Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, and Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab for Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The primary piece of music from a online game ever to be nominated for and win a Grammy in any class was Baba Yetu, a track organized by Christopher Tin for Firaxis’ Civilization 4, which received Finest Instrumental Association Accompanying Vocalist on the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011.
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