VGM composers works lists
Ages ago, for the VG Frequency blog, I wrote a series of posts spotlighting some lesser known composers of video game music whose works I greatly enjoy. Each of these posts contained a list of the games they’d composed music for, just as a flat text file.
Since writing those posts, I’ve become really unhappy with those lists. Aside from some inaccuracies, which would be easily fixable, my main problem with them is that they’re inadequately sourced. As a result, there’s no way to tell which games were included because they were 100% confirmed to have music from the composers, and which games were included because a generally reliable site on the internet listed them.
I’ve recently been in contact with someone who’s been corresponding with one of the composers I wrote an article on. The information he’s received from the composer has inspired me to redo those lists, updating the information and overhauling the presentation. So, my site now has a new section, the VGM composers works lists. I’ve only redone the first two of the five so far, and I’m not sure when I’ll get around to the other three, but check it out, and let me know what you think (especially if the pages are broken in your browser, because there’s some JavaScript magic in there).
The content is still basically the same at heart, big ol’ lists of video games, but every game contains a source for its inclusion on the list, and the color coding makes it much easier to differentiate between games with concrete information and the ones with a possibility that the composer wasn’t involved at all. I think these changes make them much more reliable resources than they were before.
