Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord has gained the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other 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 vitality into what we do. It means a lot.”
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is the 3D remake of the primary recreation within the Wizardry collection. 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 Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is constructed straight on high of the unique recreation’s code. You may even view the unique Apple 2 interface as you play.
Phillips took house the prize forward of huge 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 War 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 anticipate it,” she added. “The class was populated with a lot brilliance this 12 months, 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 dwelling 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 realize them they usually know you. It’s actually very particular.”
Previous winners of the coveted award embrace Stephanie Economou for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab for Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The first piece of music from a online game ever to be nominated for and win a Grammy in any class was Baba Yetu, a music organized by Christopher Tin for Firaxis’ Civilization 4, which gained Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist on the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011.
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