Loving those WildStar tunes? Then it’s high time you met the man behind the game’s enormous and beloved soundtrack, Composer Jeff Kurtenacker.
Top Shelf Gaming interviewed Kurtenacker about his continuing work to score the sci-fi MMO. So what were some of his techniques? “When I started writing, I wanted to embrace the sci-fi-ness of it,” Kurtenacker said. “This is where the acoustic guitar came in and the use of synthesizers. I also used a process called bit crushing which gives a distortion to certain elements. It’s been happening in film for a long time, but I hadn’t heard it used before in an MMO.”
Kurtenacker also revealed a very personal story behind one of the game’s poignant tracks: “A lot of my own feelings towards my daughter are wrapped up in Our Perception of Beauty. I see her as a bright, beautiful, fun-loving child. The whole world is an oyster for her right now, but there will come a time when that will start to crumble. So I tried to write something that encapsulated my feelings of that idea. Hold onto that hope and cherish that beauty and light.”
