Check out the following fantastic game soundtracks:
Bastion OST

And remember the only thing that matters is how good your audio sounds!

I'm going to disagree with my esteemed colleague, from Austin (recently transplanted from colorado..)

That's actually only one of a number of things that matter.

Among the others

1) Being able to deliver to spec, on time

2) Being easy and a pleasure to work with

3) underpromising and overdelivering

4) Getting yourself out there enough so that people will know you

5) being able to take criticism and not take it personally

6) understanding that your role first and foremost is to make the game more fun to play (not necessarily showcase your music).

and several others :)

You mentioned not being able to find a lot of info on the "game music business.".

Check out last year's Game Audio Industry survey.

Also, coincidentally, I'm doing a live guest appearance on a "For Film Composers Only" webinar to talk about music for games; when I did this about a year ago, most of the questions were business questions.

Its this coming Friday, July 31, at noon PST.

You don't say what city/country you're located in, but try to find local (or online) indie game dev communities; search out "game jams".

Brian

I'm going to disagree with my esteemed colleague, from Austin (recently transplanted from colorado..)



That's actually only one of a number of things that matter.

Very true, but I think Mr. Madsen meant that to refer to the tools you're using goes. As in it doesn't matter if you're using a $1000 rig or a $10,000 rig, all that matters is that it sounds good.

Yeah, I should have been more clear. Delivering audio on target and on schedule is absolutely critical! But that actual sentence was the help the OP (and other readers) realize (or reaffirm) that great audio can be made with a number of different set ups. Thanks for pointing that out - really good stuff here for folks to chew on.

Excellent discussion!