arrangers: []
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack
composers: []
covers: []
discs:
- disc_length: '38:14'
  name: Disc 1
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Dragon Slayer
    track_length: '2:06'
  - names:
      English: Lord of the Castle
    track_length: '2:48'
  - names:
      English: Spellcaster
    track_length: '2:53'
  - names:
      English: Gilgamesh's Tavern
    track_length: '1:29'
  - names:
      English: Secret Doors
    track_length: '2:56'
  - names:
      English: Adventurer's Inn
    track_length: '1:36'
  - names:
      English: The Maze
    track_length: '2:58'
  - names:
      English: Murphy's Ghost
    track_length: '2:53'
  - names:
      English: Temple of Cant
    track_length: '1:30'
  - names:
      English: Heroes in Training
    track_length: '1:40'
  - names:
      English: Thieves Dagger
    track_length: '2:28'
  - names:
      English: Dungeon Bestiary
    track_length: '2:51'
  - names:
      English: Boltac's Trading Post
    track_length: '1:53'
  - names:
      English: Nightstalker
    track_length: '2:54'
  - names:
      English: Wrath of the Wizard
    track_length: '3:14'
  - names:
      English: Masters of Wizardry
    track_length: '2:05'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/965
  names:
    en: Bandcamp
    ja: Bandcamp
    ja-latn: Bandcamp
  role: retailer
link: album/139700
lyricists: []
media_format: Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2024-05-23T22:25
  edited_date: 2024-05-23T22:32
  fetched_date: 2026-01-15T00:52
  freedb: 1
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 977
name: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Original Game Soundtrack)'
names:
  en: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Original Game Soundtrack)'
  ja: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Original Game Soundtrack)'
  ja-latn: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Original Game Soundtrack)'
notes: 'Album credits:

  Music by Winifred Phillips

  Music produced by Winnie Waldron

  Recorded & Mixed at Generations Productions Studios

  This music was composed by Winifred Phillips for Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the
  Mad Overlord, and won both the Telly Award (Best Music for a Game) and two Gold
  NYX Game Awards (Best Game Soundtrack, Best Music for a PC Game).

  About the game:

  In 1981, two Cornell University students released a computer game they called Wizardry.
  Marshaling all of their fantasy roleplaying knowledge and computer skills, they
  maximized the resources of their Apple II computers to build a game that enabled
  players to recruit adventuring parties, explore dungeons, and do battle against
  fearsome monsters. As the smash-hit video game that established the party-based
  dungeon crawler genre, Wizardry laid the foundation for an entire genre of fantasy
  adventures that include Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Quest, Might and Magic, and Final
  Fantasy. Now, renowned developer Digital Eclipse has lovingly remade the Wizardry
  game in the Unreal Engine to enable a full 3D experience.

  Released for Windows, Steam OS and consoles by game publisher Atari, Wizardry: Proving
  Grounds of the Mad Overlord offers the same hard-core difficulty and old-school
  play mechanics of the original game from 1981, now wrapped in a beautiful modern
  aesthetic and accompanied by a brand-new musical score composed by BAFTA-nominated
  video game composer Winifred Phillips.

  About the album:

  While the original 1981 version of the Wizardry game had no music, this modern remake
  features a musical soundtrack steeped in ancient history and culture. For Wizardry:
  Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Winifred Phillips composed for medieval instruments
  from around the world, including gitterns, domras, talharpas and nyckelharpas, viola
  da gamba, dulcimers and psaltery, recorders, pipes and bone flutes, organs and an
  assortment of lutes, frame drums, and all manner of medieval percussion. From the
  pious music of the temple, to the bawdy drinking songs of the tavern, the music
  of Wizardry conjures the life and times of a medieval adventurer in a sword-and-sorcery
  epic. In order to pay tribute to the lore of the Wizardry fantasy world, Phillips
  composed a rousing choral battle anthem (Wrath of the Wizard) that features the
  ancient language of the Wizardry spellbook.

  Composer/musician Winifred Phillips'' award-winning music has been performed at
  such venues as the Palais Des Congres in Paris, the Eventim Apollo in London, the
  Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan. Recently,
  Phillips’ music was performed by the renowned Helix Collective chamber ensemble
  as a part of their Level UP! concert celebrating women and POC composers. Phillips’
  music has been hailed as “joyous” with “a real sense of wonder” by BBC Radio 3,
  and the Washington Post has praised Phillips’ music as “captivating!”

  The composer’s repertoire has repeatedly focused on many culturally rich projects,
  including her intricate baroque compositions for Assassin’s Creed Liberation, her
  lush and mysterious medieval compositions for Total War Battles: KINGDOM, and the
  ancient Mediterranean music she created for God of War. For her previous work as
  a composer, Phillips has won six Game Audio Network Guild Awards, four Hollywood
  Music in Media Awards, ten Global Music Awards, three Gold NYX Game Awards, and
  an Interactive Achievement Award / D.I.C.E. Award, among others. In addition, Phillips''
  music has been nominated for multiple Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.'
organizations:
- &id002
  names:
    en: Winifred Phillips
    ja: Winifred Phillips
    ja-latn: Winifred Phillips
  role: publisher
- *id001
performers: []
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picture_small: https://medium-media.vgm.io/albums/00/139700/139700-a2c1dfec172b.jpg
picture_thumb: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/albums/00/139700/139700-a2c1dfec172b.jpg
platforms:
- Microsoft Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
- PC
- Sony PlayStation 4
- Sony PlayStation 5
products:
- names:
    en: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord'
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related:
- catalog: BY30-5179
  date: '1987-12-05'
  link: album/989
  names:
    en: We Love Wizardry
    ja: ウィ ラブ ウィザードリィ
    ja-latn: We Love Wizardry
  type: game
- catalog: SDX-CD-002S
  date: '2024-07-19'
  link: album/143379
  names:
    en: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord S...'
    ja: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord S...'
    ja-latn: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord S...'
  type: bonus
- catalog: SDX-CD-002
  date: '2024-11-21'
  link: album/141193
  names:
    en: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord O...'
    ja: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord O...'
    ja-latn: 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord O...'
  type: game
release_date: '2024-05-23'
release_events: []
release_price:
  price: Free
reprints: []
stores:
- link: http://winifredphillips.bandcamp.com/album/wizardry-proving-grounds-of-the-mad-overlord-original-game-soundtrack
  name: Bandcamp
- link: http://open.spotify.com/album/1AHuFjOuQfvQ3v4MeA1ipi
  name: Spotify
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/139700?perpage=99999
votes: 0
websites:
  Official:
  - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eaX0gktCpE
    name: 'Winifred Phillips: Creating the Music of Wizardry - The Overworld'
  - link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4AIlt2T3V0
    name: 'Winifred Phillips: Creating the Music of Wizardry - The Underworld'
  Review:
  - link: https://www.rpgfan.com/music-review/wizardry-proving-grounds-of-the-mad-overlord-original-game-soundtrack/
    name: RPGFan's Review
