Songwriting

I've been trying to write songs that will reflect a wide variety of musical styles. So far, I have a sort of driving post-punk song which I think will work well for the scene in which the hero has to take on the mantle of his heroism, and another sort of sad guitar driven light-rock ballad which I think will probably come at the end of the first or second act, when the hero has either suffered a personal tragedy and has to leave home (end of Act I) or when he finds out his ideas about the world are unsound (Act II). I will definitely need some kind of anthemic song for the end, when he emerges victorious, and probably some kind of twelve-string guitar light rock for the idyllic early days. Or I could go with some early Beatles sounding pop for that, I'm not sure.

Additionally, there is a lot of music to write for little things like the dialogue (not sure if I'll have all of this be singing or just some of it) and music stings when exciting things happen, etc. I am not sure if it's possible to write custom background music, but that would be a pretty big job.

I'm coming along more quickly on level design now; I have a better feel for the toolset. However, I haven't started actually doing real things like scripting, etc., so I have a long way to go.