Noodle Interviews @TheMartyODonnell - Composer and Audio Director for Halo & more!
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marty and I have a (3 hour long) chat about game design, development, crunch, and lots of halo obviously
I wanted to thank David (https://twitter.com/SirMeowMusic) for helping me edit this thing, as well as everyone on patreon and in twitter DMs (especially iceLikely!) for helping me format and organize my questions.
have a look at Marty's channel, lots of interesting stuff over there - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMartyODonnell
I'm on Patreon and Twitter also;
https://www.patreon.com/LegitNoodle
https://twitter.com/NoodleVEVO
Topics:
00:00 - Intro
1:23 - Pleasantries & Covid
5:18 - Honey Ad
6:45 - How little time Marty actually spent writing music
7:52 - How Marty bluffed the "audio director" into existence
12:44 - Sound design & how Marty got started
14:49 - Music Theory vs Instinct
20:03 - Marty asks about my creative background
25:04 - The importance of timing
27:57 - Marty approach to recording for games
32:04 - Advice for voice directors
38:14 - Biggest audio mistakes almost every game makes
43:09 - Letting players customize their audio?
45:46 - Biggest artistic influences
48:20 - Building confidence over time
54:13 - Halo 2`s tumultuous development
1:03:51 - My experience with Halo 2
1:07:15 - Halo 2 - Creativity VS Compromise
1:10:31 - Golem`s troubled development
1:14:47 - More on crunch
1:22:25 - How games are held back by their platform
1:26:23 - Halo Anniversary (and could have been)
1:33:33 - Noodle and Marty complain about copyright
1:38:14 - Emotional Equity
1:44:40 - Easter Eggs/Musical call-backs
1:47:05 - What's YOUR Halo?
1:49:08 - christmas album when
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