In a composers guide to game music winifred phillips herself an award winning composer of video game music provides a comprehensive practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer from acquiring the necessary creative skills to understanding the function of music in games to finding work in the field musicians and composers may be drawn to game music composition because the game industry is a multibillion dollar employment generating economic powerhouse but phillips . A composers guide to game music a composers guide to game music winifred phillips the mit press cambridge massachusetts london england . A composers guide to game music is a 2014 book written by winifred phillips a video game composer with over 11 years experience creating music for such games as assassins creed liberation god of war and multiple games in the littlebigplanet franchise through the use of autobiographical anecdotes scholarly discussion and practical advice phillips explores the creative and technical process of composing music for video games the book was published by the mit press on february 14 . In a composers guide to game music winifred phillips herself an award winning composer of video game music provides a comprehensive practical guide that leads an aspiring video game composer. A composers guide to game music is a great introduction to this specialist art that would have helped me a great deal when i was starting out my only reservation is that despite the authors obvious excitement about her subject the huge number of specific projects she refers to as examples and the helpful black and white line drawings