Mark Choi

Final Fantasy Tactics Timelines Piano Collection by Mark Choi

Really fun collaboration with @ffunion.bsky.social - I provided some moody, melancholic renditions of classic Final Fantasy Tactics tracks as underscore for their encyclopaedic, educational content: fanlink.tv/ffutt

Also check out the Final Fantasy Union YouTube channel if you haven't yet!!

Sadly, I couldn't make the social either as I'm in Hong Kong braving humid tropical storms (while stuffing my face with unbelievably good food!)

BAFTA Games events really are as entertaining as Susie and I demonstrate in the last photo. Thanks so much Luke and team for everything that you do 🙏

Excited about Develop next week! My calendar is filling up fast, but I've still got some time during the day on Tues and Thurs if you want to formally arrange a meet-up - just DM me here.

Always happy to be stopped/greeted though if I'm in headless chicken mode on Wednesday I apologise in advance!

Promotional poster of the Join the Indie concert put on by Video Games Party featuring Camilla, Mariya, Ilona and me

Camilla, Ilona, Mariya and I on stage after our performance

Camilla, Mariya, Ilona and I signing leaflets and posters for audience members

Mariya, Ilona and I posing in front of a large Video Games Party banner backstage

Such a joy performing with my friends Mariya Anastasova and Ilona Ivanova (from Baldur’s Gate 3), as well as new friend Camilla D’Onofrio!

Thank you Video Games Party for inviting us, your kind hospitality and for putting on such a great event in Milan. Thank you also to IGDA, Intel, MSI Gaming 🙏

YouTube video by Mark Choi Ivor Novello-nominated Empire of the Ants (Highlights)

#Develop next month! Would love to meet creative/audio directors or studio heads working on narrative #adventure or #rpg titles - I've some spare time due to one or two unexpected pauses...

Please DM here or MeetToMatch! In the meantime: youtu.be/6Jsu-xXKYRQ

#gamemusic #composer #gamedev #indiedev

Cheers mate! We’re always chasing the craft, not the awards in any case - though these are hugely fun and validating 🥰

Only space for 4 photos to sum up an unforgettable experience?! So proud of my fellow @ivorsacademy.bsky.social nominees for their incredible work - I had so much fun celebrating with you all ❤️

Special congrats to John for his well-deserved win and love to my wife for her undying support!!

So great to meet you Eli - wishing you all the best and looking forward to everything you create in the future!

Feel blessed and fortunate even to be mentioned in the same breath as the other legends in this list. I am more motivated than ever to hone my craft and to continue living up to this honour 🙏

I couldn’t have asked for a better team than Vincent Miot-Sertier, our Audio Director, and of course Mathieu, my amazing co-composer. Eternally grateful also to Renaud Charpentier, Olivier Lambert and Tower Five for their trust in us, and of course for creating a beautiful game.

Can’t quite believe I’m saying this - Mathieu Alvado and I have been nominated for an @ivorsacademy.bsky.social Ivor Novello Award for Empire of the Ants! Humbled, incredulous, and rendered just a tiny bit speechless by this recognition 🙏

Me in the company of legends Yoko Shimomura and Wilbert Roget

Me, Wil, Abz and Jon at the nominees party

Me in front of the BAFTA mask at the Langham

Photo of the jurors list sent by Holly who attended the ceremony

A privilege to be a BAFTA Games juror again this year with my incredible panel of peers! Congrats to all the worthy nominees and to Wil for his win (as well as for an absolutely stellar year!)

Endless thanks to Shimomura-san for our chat and your ongoing inspiration. So happy for your recognition 🙏

Can’t remember the last time I was out on a Monday night?!

Hanging out with the legendary Amanda herself

Friends, collaborators and lovers of Final Fantasy reuniting before our night of epic-ness

A shot of the Distant Worlds stage - before the avalanche of feels began for the night

Everyone showing their appreciation for Arnie Roth, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, London Voices, Soken-san and Amanda Achen

And yet more! Just before meeting Amanda, I received some incredible news which made me double check if it was April Fools’ or not! Can’t wait to share when it’s made public 🥰

Sitting with beautiful talented friends wishing them luck before their Baldur’s Gate 3 performance at the London Soundtrack Festival Games Day

A panel of legendary composers around the globe who have all scored games - a privilege to hear their words and music!

Composers soaking in the applause… being marginally upstaged by a scheming Raphael at the front…

In the excellent company of esteemed composers and lovers of music in the BAFTA members bar

Some core memories from the past several days ❤️

Cheers Nick! See you there :)

This is officially now one of the most unbelievably cool weeks of my life 🙏

State of the Art: Games Music Day - London Soundtrack Festival

Beyond excited to hang with my tribe today at the LSF games music extravaganza 🥰 What a lineup this is: londonsoundtrackfestival.com/event/state-...
Followed by a concert for the ages!

Please also get in touch if you want to discuss event ideas, or any type of collaboration - we are open and love exploring all creative avenues!

Look forward to sharing more fun stuff with you later this year and beyond.

- Mark, Amelia, Lucia, Nat, Sarah 🎶

As well as performing, we can record either in-studio or remotely for any of your live music needs - so long as it involves a combination of our instruments of course!

If that is of interest, please DM me here, or contact us via our email address (which is our bandname, all one word, at Gmail).

Play Parlour: Evening Meet-Up, Full Schedule Join us for a relaxed evening to connect, catch up, and celebrate the wrap-up of Now Play This. The event features a lineup of live music performances and micro-talks of ongoing creative projects. You...

More information here: nowplaythis.net/meetup-sched...

Our first performance will be part of our collaboration with @guildhallschool.bsky.social - we'll be performing at Somerset House as part of Now Play This, a @londongamesfest.bsky.social event. It's going to be a fun, chilled evening of beloved VGM, so please come along to listen and say hello!

Our goal is to complement large-scale orchestral concerts with intimate sets played to global audiences. Ideally, we'd collaborate with partners to put on specific events e.g. with game dev bodies to highlight the music of locally produced games, or perform special arrangements at awards and events.

Five musicians looking happy and laughing with each other, with some holding their instruments (except for the singer and the pianist...), all the while pretending that it wasn't a freezing cold day

It's finally time to talk about a dream project - @sonarisensemble.bsky.social!

We are all professional musicians active in the video game space, and between us have recorded and arranged for projects including Horizon, Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Manor Lords, Slay the Princess and Hollow Knight.

Coming soon: The Guardians of the Crystal - An Encyclopedia of Summons An exploration into the ever-expanding history of Final Fantasy summons that have appeared throughout the mainline games.

𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡 about 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗦 in our new 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 that's coming soon to 𝗞𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥! @kickstarter.com

📖 bit.ly/gotcyt

Love Final Fantasy? ✅
Love Books? ✅
Love Summons? ✅
Love Incredible Artwork? ✅

Any RPs are much appreciated!

Really excited for the inaugural London Soundtrack Festival! Will be at the Composer Panel event this Friday evening, as well as the Roundhouse all day Sunday for the games masterclasses and concert. Can’t wait to see everyone and feast on some epicness this weekend 🥰 (Say hi if you see me!)

Counting down the days till Death Stranding 2

Haha noooo I do not need to hear that more than I do already!

Oh yes. Ended up getting an early morning instead 😩

Me yesterday: Should try and get an early night tonight, am definitely overdue one
Also me: *opens up Balatro*