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Flutes, clarinets, and a delicate piccolo flutter like birds trying to find each other across a mountaintop.
The trumpet blinks out another proud melody as violins, dark and heavy, cluster like ivy.
It was kismet that Curran got the opportunity to work on Civ, too.
After his contract expired, Curran was hired.
“That’s how I got in,” Curran says.
“I knew a guy.”
“We were an independent studio.
I think I was the 40th employee.”
Now, live recordings are industry standard across both major and indie studios.
“Everybody’s in competition with Civ,” Curran says.
“Civilization hassucha fan base,” he adds.
They’re very smart.
“I think more now than it has been,” he says.
“I’ve been in it for like, 23 years, and there are layoffs.
They happen pretty frequently.
(We appreciated the game’s innovations in our ownCivilization 7 review).
Either way, Curran stands by the fact that he tried making its music as revolutionary as possible.
“I think we made, for the genre, pretty huge advances,” Curran says about Ara.
But that’s always his goal in composing for turn-based strategy.
This self-assured need to grow to conquer!
seems to call all the way back to Curran’s work on Civ 5, 15 years ago.
“We had a lot of faith in what we were doing,” Curran recalls.
“There was always a waiting audience for the next Civilization.”
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