The implementation of interactive music system for massive multi-player online game

This paper aims to dig into the musical techniques interactivity for game music. We firstly talk about the techniques for developing interactive music system. Second, by taking advantage of the recent advance of DirectMusic developed by Microsoft, we develop an interactive technique capable of matching music and screen. We explore the factors for music variation in computer games and to dig out how these factors interact. A practical multi-player online game test is carried out at the end to show the effectiveness of this system.