The music and emotion driven game engine: ideas and games

In this paper we describe the ideas behind the Music and Emotion Driven Game Engine (M-EDGE), currently under development at the School of Interactive and Digital Media in Nanyang Polytechnic and fully supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation. The paper will explain a possible method for analyzing emotional content in music in real time and how it can successfully be applied to different game ideas to help defining a new interactive experience and music based gameplay in videogames.