Game Audio | A Sound Effect

Posted January 31, 2024 by Jennifer Walden in Game audio, Sound design guides, Sound Success

How to Build a Strong Game Audio Portfolio – an insightful guide by Paul Boechler:

Senior Sound Designer Paul Boechler – who’s worked on AAA-games like ‘FIFA’, ‘Need for Speed’ (2015), and EA’s ‘skate.’ – shares tips and advice on creating effective game audio reels to help you put your best foot forward as a job seeker:

Posted December 14, 2023 by Jennifer Walden in Game audio

Crafting the Authentic Sound of ‘Assassin’s Creed Mirage’ – with Ubisoft Bordeaux’s Game Audio Team

Ubisoft Bordeaux’s game audio team on “Assassin’s Creed Mirage” talks about how they created the sound of ninth-century Baghdad (including building believable, multi-national crowds), what went into designing their ambience and Foley systems to support the stealth and parkour-focused movements, how they created the sound of the new ability ‘Assassin Focus,’ how they incorporated Arabic musical instruments into the UI sounds, and so much more!

Posted December 5, 2023 by Jennifer Walden in Game audio, How to use sound effects

Creating Better Spatial Audio Experiences

Ira Bolden talks spatialization and immersive audio formats, binaural audio for games, using AI to create personalized HRTFs (head-related transfer functions), and more:

Posted November 15, 2023 by Jennifer Walden in Game audio

Behind the Haunting Sound of Alan Wake 2 – huge interview with the audio team at Remedy!

Gamers are thrilled with Remedy Entertainment’s new survival horror game ‘Alan Wake 2’. This in-depth interview with the sound team – led by Audio Director Richard Lapington – covers their many creative and technical achievements for the game – from custom diegetic music to live-action versus gameplay aspects to sound designed elements and much, much more.

Posted November 8, 2023 by Jennifer Walden in Game audio

Synthesizing COCOON’s Surreal Game Audio – with Jakob Schmid and Julian Lentz

Go behind beautiful indie puzzler COCOON’s fully synthetic sound approach, hear how the team designed software synths for the generative music system, crafted mysterious alien worlds, and much more!