Baldur's Gate 3 Composer, Borislav Slavov

11/30/20 • 113 min

Austin Wintory chats with composer Borislav Slavov to discuss his current project Baldur's Gate 3, his journey into video game music composition, dealing with the stress of working in video game development, his process on music creation, recognizing games and game music as serious works of art, finding new ways to surprise long time fans of a series, and how music can unlock and recall past gaming experiences. Borislav Slavov is best known as the music director at Larian Studios, having worked on Divinity Original Sin 2 and the newly released Baldur's Gate 3, currently in early access. Prior to working at Larian he composed music for Crysis 2 and 3, Ryse: Son of Rome, Two Worlds II, and several other titles.

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