GAGE Core
Music that composes itself, inside your game.
GAGE Core is the music engine from GAGE Sampler, packaged to ship inside a game. Your game tells GAGE Core what is happening (player movement, danger, treasure, a monster approaching) and the music automatically creates the perfect soundtrack. It’s not a loop, it’s not a recording, and it’s not AI. It composes as the player plays.
How it works
A composer builds the music as GAGE templates in GAGE Sampler Pro. The game plays those templates with GAGE Core and steers them with simple messages: switch to the “danger” state, change the key, load the next scene’s music. Everything runs inside the game. There is no network and no separate program to run.
Three tiers, set by your game’s production budget
| Tier | GAGE Indie | GAGE Studio | GAGE Galore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production budget | Under $250,000 | $250,000 to $2,000,000 | Over $2,000,000 |
| How you buy it | GAGE Core alone, or with 1 GAGE Sampler Pro License | With 3 GAGE Sampler Pro Licenses | With 6 GAGE Sampler Pro Licenses |
| Extra content (DLC) cover | Optional | Optional | Included |
| Remove the logo and splash | Not available | Optional | Included |
| Price | Published when GAGE Sampler is released. | ||
More GAGE Sampler Pro Licenses can be added at any tier.
The terms, in plain words
- One licence per game. A licence file belongs to one game and does not expire. A sequel or a new game needs its own.
- Credit. Every game shows the line “Music engine: GAGE Core by Style Audio, LLC”. The Galore tier and the Studio logo option remove the logo and splash; nothing removes the credit line.
- Your budget. You state the game’s production budget when you buy, and that sets the tier. We check in three times: when the game is greenlit, near launch, and during any DLC. If the budget has grown past a tier, you move up.
- Extra content. New content that adds music needs DLC cover. Cosmetic content with no new music does not.
- Resale. Neither GAGE Sampler Pro nor GAGE Sampler Lite licences can ever be resold, for any reason.
Talk to us
Licensing opens after GAGE Sampler is released. If you are making a game and want to talk before then, use the contact form on style-audio.com.