# Maclaine Diemer

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Guild Wars 2 Composer, Maclaine Diemer

Austin Wintory chats with Maclaine Diemer, one of the composers behind ArenaNet's long-running MMO, Guild Wars. Together they discuss his insightful presentation at GDC 2022; his career path from sound design to composing music; and the importance understanding nuance when creating music that refer…

#66 | Maclaine Diemer on leaving rock behind to compose video game music

Maclaine Diemer is lead composer for Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons. In this podcast, Maclaine shares how how he moved on from his dream of making it as a rock star and found the games industry. He learned about how games were made at Harmonix, where he worked on Rock Band, before moving on to Arena…

Level 197: Maclaine Diemer (Salt and Sacrifice)

Composer Maclaine Diemer's music for Salt and Sacrifice is grimy and unpolished. As producer Sam Keenan says, "You can make a cello sound a lot of ways, and he found a bunch of fun ones." Of course, Maclaine is best-known for his gorgeous, lush, epic orchestral music for Guild Wars 2. And this is…

From Sound Designer to Composer with Maclaine Diemer

#39: Our guest today is composer Maclaine Diemer who has worked on projects such as Guild Wars 2, Salt and Sacrifice, Rock Band, and many others. In this episode we talk about the simplicity of networking in our field, transitioning from being a rock star to being a sound designer, and then tran…

Level 225: Maclaine Diemer (Firmament)

It's another delightful chat with composer Maclaine Diemer about Firmament from Cyan Worlds, the creators of Myst and Riven. The score is entirely synth with the exception of two or three other instruments, including an esraj and a Fender IV (technically a Squire, which only matters to people wh…

Maclaine Diemer's soundtrack for Firmament has Myst's DNA

Maclaine Diemer talks about creating a new soundtrack for Cyan Worlds' Firmament.

Level 239: Maclaine Diemer (Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure)

It's always a fascinating discussion with composer Maclaine Diemer. In this episode, we talk about Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, the newest expansion in the MMORPG. The last time he was on Level to talk about Guild Wars 2, we spoke of the End of Dragons expansion. Maclaine's music for End…

There'll Never Be Another Game Like Beatles Rock Band - #364

It's Beatles week on the podcast! Industry legend Maclaine Diemer joins to discuss his career as a composer and sound designer for video games and his involvement with one of the greatest games ever made: The Beatles: Rock Band. Now that we're almost 20 years removed from the release of this game w…