--- title: The Making Of Mixtape: How The Devs Synchronized... description: Developers at Beethoven & Dinosaur share how they built Mixtape, a music-driven narrative game in Unreal Engine 5 where every gameplay sequence, animation, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-making-of-mixtape-how-the-devs-synchronized-animation-music-6masyyna9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Making Of Mixtape: How The Devs Synchronized Animation & Music | daily.dev og:description: Developers at Beethoven & Dinosaur share how they built Mixtape, a music-driven narrative game in Unreal Engine 5 where every gameplay sequence, animation, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-making-of-mixtape-how-the-devs-synchronized-animation-music-6masyyna9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6masYyNA9.png og:image:alt: The Making Of Mixtape: How The Devs Synchronized Animation & Music og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Making Of Mixtape: How The Devs Synchronized Animation & Music **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Developers at Beethoven & Dinosaur share how they built Mixtape, a music-driven narrative game in Unreal Engine 5 where every gameplay sequence, animation, and cinematic is synchronized to licensed tracks. The team developed custom animation layering systems using Control Rig and Maya, with procedural core layers and sequencer-driven override points for music-synced gestures like clapping and headbanging. For audio, they built reusable MetaSound assets enabling seamless looping with configurable fade points, plus custom sequencer tracks for music persistence across level loads and real-time audio effects. The pipeline deliberately isolated per-level systems to allow creative freedom without shared-class constraints, while a 'horizontal slice' approach — building the full game at a basic level before polishing — enabled effective pacing and emotional testing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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