Level Up: Rob Kovacs on Games as an Art Form and Memorable Gaming Moments

Rob Kovacs is not your everyday musician, the type who writes as a solo unit or part of a band, releases records, and then goes on tour playing those songs. He’s much more versatile than that, a composer, pianist and singer-songwriter who not only writes his records but has also found his niche with video games. A side project of his is releasing music under the name 88bit, wherein he reimagines classic video game themes and reinterprets them through the piano. Being a longtime video game fan and studying early video game soundtracks has inspired him to become a video game composer, with his most significant project, being the soundtrack for the virtual reality game STRAYLIGHT. Kovacs was initially asked to write the game’s title track, but then he got involved in scoring the entire game, ...

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