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Starfield Interview: Composer Inon Zur On Scoring Bethesda’s Ambitious Sci-Fi Epic
01.12.2023 - 23:55 / screenrant.com / Todd Howard / Inon Zur
is arguably Bethesda Softworks’ most ambitious project to date. Offering players over 1,000 planets to explore, the scale of is immense; it’s fitting, then, that it was Bethesda’s biggest game launch of all time. Like with the studio’s other hits like and, offers players a huge amount of choice when it comes to how, when, and even if they complete its main story. The game took over seven years to make and, judging by studio head Todd Howard’s comments, was designed to be played for even longer.
’s review dubbed“an instant classic”, often citing the game’s ability to immerse players in its fictional universe as a distinct high point. To help achieve that through music, the game developers turned to a longtime Bethesda Softworks collaborator in composer Inon Zur. Zur’s prior works include and. For, Zur had to navigate making fiction feel like reality and crafting music that will fit playthroughs hundreds of hours long.
Inon Zur spoke with about his work on, how the game is meant to be played, and more. Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Screen Rant: I saw that you came onto this project in 2016, so it's almost a decade. How much did what the game was going to be change over that time?
Inon Zur: Well, a lot, because there was no game. There were some thoughts, some ideas, and maybe some art design, but nothing was really in place. It was mainly Todd’s dream to create a space game, [with] some of the philosophical ideas behind it, the questions behind it, [and] what it was going to be in a very general way. But Todd always says that he likes to bring the music in as soon as the actual idea is conceptualized, so the music can be born with the project. So, that’s what we did, and I'm a really strong supporter of this idea.
Yeah, I saw that you started composing from that conversation, or from concept art. Does that make it harder in any way?
Inon Zur: I mean, it is vague. You don't get any gameplay, you don't get any pictures, [and] you don't get anything specific that you can really write to. I was starting to imagine what the music should sound like, but that’s actually something where you don't really need to have the game; you just need to imagine the idea behind the game. It was, “What happens to a person when you throw them in space?”
There are three pillars. The first one is the awe. Its, “Wow, this thing is much bigger than anything I can even imagine.” Then comes the fear--almost terror--like, “What's going to happen?” It’s totally unsafe; it's unfamiliar. It's, “I'm basically lost.” Then, the third pillar is the excitement: “Okay, but this is a huge opportunity for me to conquer, to discover, [and] to explore. It's all new, and it's just waiting for me.” Taking these
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