Composing Sword of the Sea w/ Austin Wintory - Easy Allies Podcast - Aug 29, 2025

The Easy Allies Podcast

Easy Allies

Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Ep 490 - Composer Austin Wintory joins us to talk about his work on Sword of the Sea and the distinct language of writing music for games. Plus, we share our thoughts on Herdling, Shinobi, The Rogue Prince of Persia, and the July sales report. Become a patron to get the extended cut: https://www.patreon.com/posts/extended-sword-w-137615492 00:00 - Intro 02:59 - Austin Wintory, Sword of the Sea, and Music in Games 52:32 - Herdling Impressions 01:04:15 - Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Impressions 01:26:53 - RetroSpace Preview 01:33:39 - The Rogue Prince of Persia Impressions 01:49:44 - July Sales Report 02:06:27 - Also This Week 02:16:50 - L&R: Is Age Really to Blame? 02:30:50 - L&R: Differences in Interactive Music 02:35:51 - L&R: Favorite Soundtracks of 2025 02:45:00 - Bets 02:52:21 - Closing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Easy Allies podcast at the end of August. The dog days of August.
0:28.0	My birthday month? Yeah. Just a just a good month overall. Kids are back in school. Places are less crowded.
0:37.0	Get them back in school. Go to school less crowded. Get them back in school.
0:38.1	Go to school.
0:38.8	I don't know about that.
0:40.8	It sounds like places are definitely more crowded right now.
0:42.5	You know, you're not wrong, Damiani.
0:44.6	I am Michael Heber.
0:45.6	We are Easy Allies, and this is the Easy Allies podcast.
0:49.3	We today are joined by Daniel Bloodworth.
0:52.3	Hello.
0:53.7	Special Ultimate Omega guest, Austin Winnery.
0:59.0	The final guest.
1:00.3	It's not true.
1:01.2	I have somebody booked for a couple weeks.
1:02.5	Well, then that was a lie.
1:04.5	We're off to an excellent start.
1:06.5	How are you doing today?
1:08.0	Great.
1:08.7	Very happy to be here.
1:09.7	Good.
1:10.1	Oh, we're so, we're so excited. Every one of us is, like, in the rush mode. Somehow we have to get into a conversation after, like, just one thing after another to get here. Yes. It is true. It is true. It's the L.A. style. It is. Because, you know, all those kids are back in school, apparently, just clogging up the
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