Rebecca Cheung
Musician/Gamer


Music in Video Games

"Video game music is the soundtrack that accompanies video games (...) Many video game players believe that music can enhance game play and outlets such as Popular Science have stated that it is designed to "simultaneously stimulate your senses and blend into the background of your brain, because that's the point of the soundtrack. It has to engage you, the player, in a task without distracting from it. In fact, the best music would actually direct the listener to the task.[31]" (From Wikipedia)

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Rebecca Cheung graduated from Brunel University with a BA in Music in 2017 and has since recorded soundtracks for other video game and film composers. She hopes to expand her coding skills into creating basic HTML5 games so she can compose music for it and slowly build her portfolio as a composer.
Here is some background music that Rebecca composed in 2014 to highlight how music can help enhance the change in enviornment. Notice how the music started with a peaceful and happy theme for a Land filled with good, only to then decend into discordant chaos as evil has decayed the Land.