Ubisoft is partnering with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord to create 10 songs for Watch Dogs: Legion.
Most gave development companies will have an audio department that makes it their job to create the soundscape for their game. For most games, this involves sound effects, voices, and anything else required to make it seem like the player is audibly immersed in what🤪ever fantasy world they happen to be playing.
We’re pretty sure Ubisoft has a fairly extensive sound department, but they decided to do something a little different with Watch Dogs: Legion. Rather than rely on sourcing existing songs or creating their own music for the game, Ubisoft has decided to team up with HitRecord to create 10 new songs for Watch Dogs: Legion.
There’s a certain elegance to this partnership. Watch Dogs: Legion is all about collaboration, getting the populace of London on your side in order to take down an authoritarian regime. HitRecord is also all aboꦍut collaboration, but in their case, it’s less to do with political upheaval and more to do with making musicꦚ, or videos, or posters, or really anything at all creative.
When it comes t🀅o music, one person might start with a nice drum beat, and then someone else will lay some sick guitar riffs, and then someone else will provide some vocal backing. This can go on until the project is labeled done, and even then someone else could come along and remix the whole thing from scratch to make a totally n🌳ew song.
In this way, ꦦmusic can be created organically that sounds totally different from anything that Ubisoft could have madಞe on their own.
Ubisoft will pony up $2,000 per song which is then split between every artist that contributed to that song. Creative director Clint Hocking and audio director Rich Nieto have already set up a with a video featuring movie star and HitRecord director Joseph Gordon-Lev🌳itt explaining how the whole thing works.
So far, Clint and Rich have 5 songs ideas to get people started: "Dark electronic heist song," "battle anthem metal song,” "an𒀰ti-establishment uptempo hip hop song," "teasing funk-pop song," and "aggressive grime song." They’re looking for music that not only seems slightly futuristic but also captures some of London’s essence to really make it feel like the player is living in a near-future England.
Watch Dogs: Legion arrives🧔 on March 6th, 2020, so ther𒁏e’s not a lot of time left to get those songs in.