This article is an excerpt of the The Complete Guide to Game Audio. It's used with permission from Focal Press. Sound effects are an integral part of any game, equal in importance to artwork, music and game play. Good sound effects create an impact which rounds out the entire gaming experience; without them, that experience would suffer. They are designed to completely absorb … [Read more...]
Aaron Marks Special: So, You Want to Be a Sound Designer?
People often ask why I’m a sound designer and how I ended up with an active career creating sounds. It’s not something I specifically sought out but now that I’m a dozen years into doing it professionally, I’m really happy that I’m here. I actually started as a composer with the dream of scoring blockbuster Hollywood films but with the unpredictability of life, I ended up on … [Read more...]
Aaron Marks Special: Exclusive Interview
Here is an interview with our special guest Aaron Marks, talking about general aspects of his career. Hope you like it! Designing Sound: Tell us about your career and how you got started with sound. Aaron Marks: Career? You mean this is like …a job?!? Well, I never thought of it that way but yeah, I guess it’s a living. If you had to put a label on me, I’d say I’m a … [Read more...]
October's Featured Sound Designer: Aaron Marks
I'm happy to announce Aaron Marks as our October's guest on Designing Sound. A multi-disciplinary audio professional with background in music composition, sound design, field recording, and more. Author of "The Complete guide to Game Audio" and teacher at The Art Institute of California. A very kind person ready to share lots of cool things with us this month. Bio Best known … [Read more...]