What do you listen to when you work on your game?

[Diretooth]

I usually listen to the music found in the RTP, or whatever else is within the sound files. Sometimes, when I get bored or tired of a song, I listen to other songs in other OSTs that have the same feel to it.

 

[skullcandy1366]

Lots of Japanese dance music and metric tons of Daft Punk and Knife Party.

 

[skullcandy1366]

Lots of Japanese dance music and metric tons of Daft Punk and Knife Party.

 

[Abagail Asta]

okay your probably gonna make fun of me but i often listen to somthing like billy gilman although i also listen to pokemon or digimon songs out of bordness.

 

[Boarlock2]

System of a Down & Rammstein FTW!!!

 

[Allerka]

Sometimes my game's OST, but typically lately I've taken to listening to "epic" music, i.e. Two Steps From Hell, or "epic music megamixes" off of Youtube (e.g. the ones by ThePrimeChronus) that run for anywhere from 1-10 hours. The megamixes also have lots of inspirational artwork from games and such in them as well, which also helps.

 

[Omnimental]

When I'm doing general work, it's usually either Fort Minor, Rise Against, or a mass variety of youtube songs.

When I'm working on story and character parts, I tend to put on a classical tracklist.

 

[EtphTheElephant]

While working on my project? Dance Gavin Dance, letlive, Jonny Craig an Woe, Is Me.

 

[Galenmereth]

Lately it's been Lady GaGa (latest album, Artpop), Maximum the Hormone, Leonard Cohen and Glitch Mob. A healthy variation I think.

 

[A-Moonless-Night]

Recently I've been listening to a huge playlist of Amon Amarth songs because they get me into the fantasy gam mak mood, but I also listen to Light This City, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Bleeding Through, Pierce the Veil, stuff like that. I was actually thinking about this the other day—when I write fiction, I'll have a playlist of songs from a myriad of artists, whereas I generally listen to just one artist at a time when I'm game-making. It generally depends on whether I'm alone or not as well; if I'm alone, I mainly listen to melodic death metal because I don't like to do that when my partner's home (he can't stand that sort of music).

 

[Ellie Jane]

My itunes is pretty full of a mix of mainly 70s-90s rock, mixed with classical music best-ofs and some video game OSTs. The only newish music is Florence and the Machine. I like different music, as it's more of an inspiration to mix it up, so I have things like the Housemartins (a capella), Jeremy Soule (Guild Wars), Elbow, Cranberries, and the soundtracks to films like the Wedding Singer or Teachers.

...so in short, anything and everything, but always something different. I get annoyed listening to the same thing too much.