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3 years ago Nov 24,2021, 18:04:40 PM

A Vote of Note: Steam Awards and Game Awards

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Music is crucial to immersing yourself in a game experience. A great soundtrack can help transport you to all manner of worlds, from futuristic planets orbiting distant stars to fantastical realms of magic and wonder, and yes, even back through time into history. We consider ourselves lucky that we could work with an amazing composer like Arnaud Roy from the very beginning (though back then he was known to our players as FlyByNo) to bring our worlds and games to life. Our fans seem to agree, given how many times we hear that the endless Soundtracks are among their favorite game OSTs.


But of all our collaborations with Arnaud, the Humankind Soundtrack was perhaps the biggest and most challenging project yet. With 60 different cultures, the soundtrack required a great variety of instruments and musical styles, and Arnaud worked with a number of experts to achieve this. Even after forming these many cultures into groups, the soundtrack contains several hours worth of music. On top of that, there is over an hour of orchestral music evoking the grand scale of history.


We can only begin to describe the effort that went into this soundtrack here, so if you want to know more, please check out our Feature Focus about Composing the Music, or the Humankind Music playlist on youtube for more examples and making-of videos about the soundtrack.


 


If you agree with us that his work on the Humankind soundtrack is phenomenal, please show your appreciation for his work by nominating Humankind in the Best Soundtrack category of the Steam Awards.



And while you are already in a voting mood, why not head on over to the Game Awards website and vote for us, as we have been nominated for Best Sim/Strategy Game this year. We'd really appreciate your support!




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- The Amplitude Team

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3 years ago
Nov 25, 2021, 5:38:43 PM

I love you Amplitude but there is no way i would vote Humankind best game. You can't release a broken game like that and ask for goty award!

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3 years ago
Dec 16, 2021, 12:34:25 AM
Ningauble wrote:

I'm just curious all those dumping on the music. Do you got any samples of your own work?

Time frames from idea to fruition and compositional comparisons? Rehearsal times?

I don't see anyone dumping on the music. In fact, everyone here has been pretty praising of the music. Dumping on the game itself sure, but credit where it's due. The music is pretty good.


But I still stand by my original comment that a game worthy of awards doesn't need to beg for them. Which unfortunately is exactly what Amplitude is doing. And it comes across as "we know the game is crap, but please vote for the music which is pretty good so we have something to go back to our Sega overlords and masters with to beg forgiveness".

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3 years ago
Dec 15, 2021, 10:36:38 AM

I'm just curious all those dumping on the music. Do you got any samples of your own work?

Time frames from idea to fruition and compositional comparisons? Rehearsal times?

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3 years ago
Nov 29, 2021, 1:39:45 AM
Dale_K wrote:

A game worthy of awards doesn't need to beg for them.

My thoughts exactly.

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3 years ago
Nov 28, 2021, 9:55:04 PM

Best shilling of a $49.99 music download


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3 years ago
Nov 28, 2021, 5:34:25 AM

aaaand Voted!


Always happy to support Amplitude and the beautiful music that comes with each game ^.^

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3 years ago
Nov 27, 2021, 11:18:11 PM
Tnecniw wrote:
Eldgrim wrote:

I love you Amplitude but there is no way i would vote Humankind best game. You can't release a broken game like that and ask for goty award!

Best STRATEGY game :)
not GOTY

It's not even that.

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3 years ago
Nov 27, 2021, 12:15:07 PM
Eldgrim wrote:

I love you Amplitude but there is no way i would vote Humankind best game. You can't release a broken game like that and ask for goty award!

Best STRATEGY game :)
not GOTY

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3 years ago
Nov 25, 2021, 9:22:01 AM

Yup, it's definitely the only worthy category where HK shines and it's good Amplitude double down on it. My vote is theirs. Good luck, Arnaud.

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3 years ago
Nov 25, 2021, 3:10:30 AM

The music is indeed nomination worthy! Fantastic work, same for the previous games! 

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3 years ago
Nov 24, 2021, 8:13:03 PM

Do I need to feel sorry to nominate for the game of the year award? You can nominate a game only in one category. 
I understand the frustration with gameplay issues and bugs, delayed big patch.
With your choices at hand, bear in mind the size of the team and again covid striking back doesn't make it easier to come2gether and work in teams, eventually? 

Imho it is still worth a GOTY nomination because of the sheer depth and concept for the game.

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3 years ago
Nov 24, 2021, 7:20:33 PM
Arkalis wrote:

Everyone will have their opinion on the state of the game overall and I agree the game needs more fixing before it can aspire to a Game of the Year accolade.

However, for what it's worth I also agree that the soundtrack is nothing short of amazing and I feel comfortable nominating the game for that category. This is not to say that only Arnaud Roy and his team worked passionately on the game, far from it, but in terms of game awards I believe that from those who were disappointed with the game most of them will agree the music was not a factor in this negative outcome.

I agree with that.

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