For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.