You almost certainly know actor Troy Baker for at least one of his game roles over the past decade. Joel in The Last of Us. Indiana Jones in the Great Circle. The Joker. And if you follow games you're nearly as likely to know the work of composer Austin Wintory, who's behind the award-winning music for games like Journey, Abzu, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and Sword of the Sea.
What you might not know is that the two are also good friends, and will egg each other on regardless of whether the cameras are rolling or not.
"He just says yes to shit," Wintory exclaimed when we sat the two down for an interview at the recent Game Developers Conference. "I have yet to find the limits. There's only three or four people I've ever worked with where it has become a sport for me to go 'what's something I can throw at them, that I know they'll rise to the occasion.'"
The two have hosted a podcast about music together called Read Entire Article
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