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Composer Austin Wintory shares the fascinating story of how he was approached by Valve to create a music kit for Counter-Strike, leading to the creation of a heavy metal polka.
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00:00You know we have this secondary market on Counter-Strike where people can make
00:03custom guns and stuff and he goes we have this idea it won't be an open
00:08market it's curated by Valve but he said we have this idea of approaching bands
00:13and artists and whatever to make whatever they want and then we just put
00:18it on the market as if you want to reskin Counter-Strike with like if
00:21there's a band you like and we happen to have made a deal with them you can do it
00:24and it has this toolkit where you have to write music for all the you know the
00:28things that happen in Counter-Strike you know you've planted the bomb and
00:30there's 30 seconds to defuse it before it goes off or whatever so anyway they
00:35approached and he said here's the thing that I think will hopefully be fun about
00:37this you should do whatever you want because the whole idea is to it's
00:44something people are opting into and it should be differentiated from anything
00:47out there so he said go nuts man well anybody who knows me knows that is a
00:51dangerous thing to say to me
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