The Role of Music in Remedy's Video Games

Slow jam presentation by Sam Lake featuring Petri Alanko at Slush Music 2016.

[jacksonwalters]

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE CALLED OUT HIS DREAM OF CREATING A MUSICAL IN A GAME 6 YEARS BEFORE ALAN WAKE 2 WHAT A LEGEND SAM LAKE IS

[telefrag.]

These guys always look like they are having way much fun on their job.

[MaRaMa-ARTZ]

Hearing how making a game-musical was a dream of his after playing Alan Wake 2 now made my heart full~

[AniVanR]

Sam Lake is such a badass storyteller. Petri Alanko is a badass composer. I want to marry Remedy, they're just too awesome!

[pyit.]

"But instead of talking, we'll sing it!"

[dsinghr]

There is no studio like Remedy. Minds blew after playing Control. Fuck, that’s an amazing game that kept me awake during nights thinking deeply

[danielgover]

Slush Music: Hey Sam, we'd like you to talk about music in your games.


Sam Lake: Sluuooow Jäämm

[Gabriel-wkhz]

This is the best way to do a presentation, ever!

[MarcusMathew]

Sam Lake and Remedy are great things in the gaming industry, these elements have worked together to create exceptional game projects, whether it's Max Payne 1 or 2 or Alan Wake, everything fits perfectly into this world

[Drak_Thedp]

Sam Lake makes for a great storyteller, he's got that nice kind of a crispy charismatic accent. And it's always better seeing it once, than being told for a 100 times.
I felt myself in a game by Remedy just watching this presentation, as if Sam would just "You know what, why don't we ask the guy himself" flips his fingers and in a flash of lightning comes Thor, the old fart gives the audience a short, but intense hard-rock like solo and gets dissolved in the darkness of the backstage, while sam fluently picks up the speach.
That's what's so good about Remedy - they know how to produce the right atmosphere.

[Siledas]

Death From Above 1979 appearing as the credits roll in Quantum Break was an awesome surprise. Such a great band.

[darkduo]

That's Max Payne! (Sorry, but you'll always be Max Payne to me!)

Would have loved to have been there in person for this!

[midnightjay]

Sam Lake and Remedy as a whole are treasures hah hah Love the compassion and enthusiasm every time, with every presentation and game. Always so unique and unapologetically different. I hope they continue to make games far into the future.

[CtheIronblooded]

This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen. Sam just seems like such a cool and fun guy to be around, he really looks like he is having a blast up on that stage, I think it's impossible to not like him honestly, like how could you not like a guy who just has such a genuine enthusiasm and passion for everything he does?

[Julianoz]

Wish I could have been there to see this in person, amazing work! I hope one day the Old Gods of Asgard will return in an Alan Wake sequel :')

[boot]

Poets of the Fall and Remedy for life! You guys are the greatest! p.s Sam, you forgot Balance Slays the Demon by Old Gods of Asgard!

[EternalVR]

You Sir(Sam Lake) are the Tim Burton of video games. Every game mad by you has a specific feel to it that always puts me in that special mood. I love it Thank you!

[sodvar]

Can you imagine a Sam Lake penned musical game? Now that's something I'd love to play.

[tomservodoctor]

I've played so many games, AAA games even, that treat music like filler, just noise to replace silence. It creates a much more memorable experience when music helps direct the flow of gameplay, and engages with the audience. I'm so glad that Remedy gets this.

[antivanti]

Glad to see he at least got to write one musical theater piece for Alan Wake II and also that it is THE moment in gaming in 2023