While Designing Sound is snuggled firmly in the warm and cozy blanket of text articles; it's not always the most convenient way to absorb information. Whenever I am walking on a hiking trail or making a long (or even short!) drive I don't usually listen to music unless I am out of new podcast episodes! People may be aware of the podcasts we have covered and collaborated with … [Read more...]
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Game Developer’s Conference 2014 Recap
I intended to have this up last week but recovering from GDC was a fulltime job and the proverbial dog ate my homework when Google Docs made the rough draft of this article disappear. However at the time of writing the GDC Vault has not updated with audio/video of the event so hopefully this post will have a more timely release around the same time as GDC Vault. All of the … [Read more...]
Interview: Rob Bridgett and Game Audio Culture
Rob Bridgett is no stranger to us here at Designing Sound. Constantly writing and engaging in community discussion; Rob has put out a new book called "Game Audio Culture". Here are some questions Damian Kastbauer and I put together for Rob. Can you tell the few Designing Sound readers who don't know who you are a bit about your background in sound design, game … [Read more...]
Opinion: Raising Visibility Of Audio With Playstation 4
As we come out of coverage of E3 and eagerly anticipate the release of next-gen consoles later this year; there has been a good deal of discussion about the social networking, graphical and visual capabilities of these new boxes. The two things that have excited me the most about the Playstation 4 specifically aren't it's custom processing unit, background downloading, or … [Read more...]
Daily Podcasts from GDC
As they did during the Game Audio AES conference in London recently, Anton Woldhek and Damian Kastbauer are producing daily podcasts from GDC. You can find them over at the Game Audio Podcast website. … [Read more...]
Loudness In Game Audio
Finishing up Loudness Month here at Designing Sound I asked the good folks at Audiokinetic (makers of Wwise), Firelight Technologies (makers of FMOD) and G.A.N.G. IESD about what is happening in game audio in regards to loudness metering. From the G.A.N.G. IESD Committee: "Loudness and monitoring levels have been very high on the IESD's agenda since the the organization … [Read more...]
Game Audio Podcast AES Coverage
The juggernauts of game audio Anton Woldhek and Damian Kastbauer are at it again with three brand-new episodes of the Game Audio Podcast in which they discuss the AES Conference in London. Spread throughout these 3 episodes is over an hour and a half of Damian and Anton discussing their enviable experiences at the conference. Links and show notes below: … [Read more...]