• xan1242@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    EA used to do this even before Microsoft!

    They have their own music system called “Pathfinder” which controls music interactively in little chunks.

    I believe it was first used in NFS 2, which came out before DirectMusic.

    If you’ve heard the pursuit music in NFSMW 2005 or Carbon’s Canyon music, that’s Pathfinder! It was also used in Medal of Honor and Red Alert 3.

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      1 year ago

      It was kinda a thing even in the early SNES days, at least in a basic way Mario world would add a bit of a drumming back-beat when you jumped on Yoshi