Today’s music is becoming more commercial and affordable. With the complicity of applications like Spotify that have made music available to everyone, just a few clicks away and at any time. You just have to press twice on the smartphone and that’s it. But before Spotify, music has always played a fundamental role for humanity: literature was born with it, words were born with it, and so were games. Because today there is perhaps no better dimension to music than play. More than in movies and series and in everyday life, music plays a leading role in the gaming world, from consoles to online slot machines.
All this in perfect harmony with the logic of gamification, the technique that consists of applying playful dynamics to non-playful contexts. All in favor of dopamine, that neurotransmitter that acts as a metronome in the brain, directing the pleasure and fun and giving rise to what in the end is the reason for the game: the experience.
But the music is still fundamental, like the sound design, for the success of a title. Since the days of Super Mario, a popular Nintendo title that has accompanied entire generations from the 1980s to the 2000s, music has played a central role. The melodies that have always accompanied Mario’s adventures, often simple, have set a trend that has been maintained over time. Tetris remains an icon for its melodies, Pac-Man for the crunch of the icon. And so on until the last generation of consoles and titles.
Thinking about a game today without music means practically starting with a fundamental disadvantage. In fact, it can be said that before devising the game itself, it is necessary to first create the musical component. Masterpieces such as Tomb Raider, The Witcher, GTA, God of War or The Last of Us, would not have had the success then obtained if they were not accompanied by a worthy mix of music and themes. Not to mention the music-themed games themselves, with Guitar Hero that marked an era.
The software houses that develop slot machines also need music to achieve their goal of attracting players. Also here, on the wave of success of the genre, slots focused entirely on music were born. One of them is The Big Easy, one of the most played bar slots in online casinosas well as being a benchmark among multi-licensed sites in Europe. Inspired by jazz music, The Big Easy slot machine has stages set in the streets of a small town at night and a game system with 5 reels and 20 bet lines, wild symbols that act as real wilds, scatter symbols of bonus and a bonus game feature, as well as combination prizes that can go up to 1,000 coins in some cases.
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