Winifred Phillips is an award-winning game composer whose credits include titles in five of the biggest and best franchises in gaming: 'Assassin's Creed', 'Total War', 'God of War', 'LittleBigPlanet', and 'The Sims'. Her music from the Assassin’s Creed Liberation game will be performed by a 80-piece orchestra and choir as a part of the Assassin’s Creed Symphony World Tour, launching on June 11th at the Dolby Theatre in LA. In addition, Phillips has been invited to speak in April 2019 about the role of music in video games at the Library of Congress in Washington DC as part of the event, "Augmented Realities: A Video Game Music Mini-Fest." Some of Phillips' latest video game credits include numerous virtual reality games, including ’Shattered State’, 'Scraper: First Strike', 'Bebylon: Battle Royale', 'Fail Factory', 'Dragon Front', and many more. Phillips has received an Interactive Achievement Award / D.I.C.E. Award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, three Hollywood Music in Media Awards, six Game Audio Network Guild Awards, five Global Music Awards, an IGN Best Score Award, a GameSpot Best Music Award, a GameZone Score of the Year Award, a GameFocus Award, and three Gracie Awards from the Alliance of Women in Media. The Women in Virtual Reality organization have recognized Phillips as an expert in music for VR. She has released fifteen albums. Her soundtrack album for the Legend of the Guardians video game was the first video game soundtrack album released by WaterTower Music, one of the top labels for film music soundtracks. Phillips is the author of the award-winning bestselling book, A Composer's Guide to Game Music, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.

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• How Music Enhances Virtual Presence