Your_Average_Foe Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Hi, everyone! I'm doing my PhD on videogame music and why people listen to game music outside the game. I'd appreciate if you guys can help my research by doing the survey. Here's the link. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Consumption_of_video_game_soundtracks If you have any questions let me know. Thanks! Quote
AngelCityOutlaw Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 and why people listen to game music outside the game Because it's freakin' awesome. Case closed. Quote
Liontamer Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Because it's freakin' awesome.Case closed. Hardy har. On a serious note, I've taken the survey. Foe mentioned to me that the long-form questions are purposefully open-ended, for anyone curious when they get to them. Quote
Esperado Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Short answer, because the only portable device to play music with on car rides and was my gameboy when i was younger, from there the rest is history. Ill take the survey though Quote
Magnetic Ether Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Took it. Good luck with your research! Quote
jnWake Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Took it. Question 23 felt a bit odd, maybe I didn't understand it Quote
Jason Covenant Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Good music is good music regardless of where it comes from or how it's used. Quote
DusK Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Dropped my two cents. Good luck on your PhD. Quote
The Derrit Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 i'm acsking this out of genuine curiosity, where is there any material for you to do research on such a thing? outside of a surveymonkey survey. i'm not seeing where anyone would find this useful information, or how it could be made into a PhD of all things Quote
Crulex Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 Took the survey. Good luck on your research. Quote
Rozovian Posted January 5, 2013 Posted January 5, 2013 0.02 Some questions took a few steps forth and back to figure out. Quote
Your_Average_Foe Posted January 5, 2013 Author Posted January 5, 2013 i'm acsking this out of genuine curiosity, where is there any material for you to do research on such a thing? outside of a surveymonkey survey. i'm not seeing where anyone would find this useful information, or how it could be made into a PhD of all things Hey, Derrit! There's tons of academic articles, PhD theses, dissertations, and books on videogames. There's not much on game music itself, sadly. That's where I come in. I've already done my research and setup the theory, the survey is to corroborate it. And thanks for your support, guys! Quote
Skyline Drop Posted January 6, 2013 Posted January 6, 2013 I completed the survey. Lots of open-ended questions on it, which should make for some interesting results, I think. I tried to be specific but also concise for your sake. Hopefully this all pans out for you. The world could use some more academic research in game music specifically. Quote
BlackPanther Posted January 6, 2013 Posted January 6, 2013 I did the survey with answers as honest as I can put in the dialogue boxes. I'm looking forward to the thesis of your phd of video game music and how you plan to assess the data from the many surveys that you get. Quote
Your_Average_Foe Posted January 14, 2013 Author Posted January 14, 2013 Hey everyone! Thanks a lot for the responses! They've been very helpful so far. Almost 400 surveys! That is fantastic. I'll keep the link active for a couple more weeks so if anyone else wants to help out feel free to do so. Quote
GTAHater836 Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 I have a TON of reasons for listening to video game related music. Here are the top 3... *For various pictures and other situations, it can set the mood perfectly fine, but with the added advantage of familiarity, after over a decade of playing video games. *I can only approve of 2% of all Dubstep tracks (or a 1 out of 50 ratio). Nearly all those 2% were made by OverClocked ReMix. *After the rise of dubstep and autotune in circa 2007, the quality of commercial music bottomed out at an all-time low. Just when I think it can't get any worse, Justin Bieber made some new garish beats that, for lack of a better word, I just call "Biebercussion". It's recently occurred to me that other "artists" might be trying to rip off Bieber's signature beats since circa 2010. Commercial music has devolved into a blatant cash-grab. Apart from independent musicians, video game music is one of the few regions that still get composed with effort these days. Quote
Your_Average_Foe Posted January 14, 2013 Author Posted January 14, 2013 Hi GTAHater! Thanks for your response. Quite interesting. The intention of this thread is to get people to fill in a survey I set up for my PhD research. Here's the link again: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Consumption_of_video_game_soundtracks Quote
Nabeel Ansari Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 i'm acsking this out of genuine curiosity, where is there any material for you to do research on such a thing? outside of a surveymonkey survey. i'm not seeing where anyone would find this useful information, or how it could be made into a PhD of all things Drexel's Music Tech Lab has a research project on Music-driven video games; I don't think it's at all a rare topic. Survey taken, hope it helps. Game music composition is a dream and goal for me. Quote
GTAHater836 Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Hi GTAHater!Thanks for your response. Quite interesting. The intention of this thread is to get people to fill in a survey I set up for my PhD research. Here's the link again: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Consumption_of_video_game_soundtracks Between my previous post and the time you re-posted the link, I'd already taken the survey. Quote
Melodious Punk Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 very interesting average_foe! I enjoyed taking the survey, and I posted the survey over at the RVGS facebook as I think all our community is up your alley. Quote
Your_Average_Foe Posted January 14, 2013 Author Posted January 14, 2013 very interesting average_foe!I enjoyed taking the survey, and I posted the survey over at the RVGS facebook as I think all our community is up your alley. Hey, Melodious Punk! Thanks a lot! Quote
Haha_YouAint Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Video Game Music to me is so much better than what's out now. I mean you have mainstream rock, hip-hop, and whatever you wanna call that crap that plays occasionally on the radio. I've lost my love for it over the years, and I've been listening more and more to video game music. Not even for the fact that I want to become a composer, but more so because I appreciate the way it makes me feel. The music is more real. Quote
DarkeSword Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Video Game Music to me is so much better than what's out now. I mean you have mainstream rock, hip-hop, and whatever you wanna call that crap that plays occasionally on the radio. I've lost my love for it over the years, and I've been listening more and more to video game music. Not even for the fact that I want to become a composer, but more so because I appreciate the way it makes me feel. The music is more real. Video game music isn't "more real" than any other kind of music. Saying that is just as bad as those folks who write-off VGM because it's from video games, saying things like "it's not real music" or "it's not legitimate." There is also a lot of music from video games that is totally boring, formulaic, and forgettable. I love VGM, but there is literally SO MUCH music out there that is brilliant and worth listening to that isn't VGM. All you have to do is look around for 5 minutes on the internet and you will find some really amazing stuff. Quote
Chernabogue Posted January 14, 2013 Posted January 14, 2013 Video game music is not a "genre". Metal, rock, pop, etc. are genres and VG composers are doing the same genres than mainstream artists. That's how I see things. Quote
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