House of Games #54 - Nathaniel Marshall | SpaceCastle

In this week's episode 🎧, we talk with Nathaniel Marshall 🌟, a.k.a SpaceCastle 🏰, a video game music composer 🎵, and ask him everything from AI 🤖 to the challenges of composing music 🎼 to his work on the recent SEGA Genesis game 🕹️, IRENA: Genesis Metal Fury ⚡.

Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
01:01 Nathaniel Introduces Himself
05:47 Composing for the SEGA Genesis
08:47 Interpreting Game Developer Intention Into Music
11:48 How Much Inspiration Should You Take From Other Sources?
19:10 Music for Cutscenes and Trailers
23:17 Nathaniel's Aspirations
25:31 Do You Need a Budget To Hire a Composer?
29:16 Are Some Music Genres More Expensive?
31:06 When Inspiration Strikes
36:20 At What Stage Does Music Come In?
38:44 Sound Effects
40:25 Music Software and AI Music
01:00:21 Episode Outro and Where To Find Nathaniel

Your Hosts and Guest, and Their Games
http://spacecastle.pro/ - Visit Nathaniel's homepage!
https://spacecastle.bandcamp.com/ - Listen to Nathaniel's music on Bandcamp!
https://www.instagram.com/truespacecastle/ - Follow @truespacecastle on Instagram!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ - Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 - Read Otto's blog about game development!
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP - The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Games
https://white-ninja.itch.io/irena-genesis-metal-fury - The itch store page for IRENA: Genesis Metal Fury.
https://www.nintendo.se/nintendo-switch-familjen/spel/super-mario-odyssey - The homepage for Super Mario Odyssey.
https://www.hazelight.se/games/it-takes-two/ - The homepage for It Takes Two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Castlevania_IV - The Wikipedis page for Super Castlevania IV.
https://www.residentevil.com/ - The homepage for the Resident Evil franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradius - The Wikipedia page for the Gradius franchise.

Audio & Software
https://deflemask.com/ - The homepage for DefleMask.
https://www.audiokinetic.com/en/products/wwise/ - The homepage for Wwise.
https://www.fmod.com/ - The homepage for FMOD.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wiGBrwVETkXUbmMI088TG?si=8bdb9d31afb640c5 - Our episode with Kristofer Eng, one of the composers for It Takes Two.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-54-nathaniel-marshall-spacecastle-41c5638e40a3