• Home
  • About
  • Site Policies
  • Contact

Designing Sound

Art and technique of sound design

  • All Posts
  • Featured
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Tutorials
  • Resources
    • VR Audio Resources
    • Independent SFX Libraries
    • Events Calendar
  • Series Archives
    • Featured Topics
    • Featured Sound Designers
    • Audio Implementation Greats
    • Exclusive Interviews
    • Behind the Art
    • Webinar/Discussion Group Recordings
    • Sunday Sound Thought
    • The Sound Design Challenge

Gamasutra: Zack Quarles On Greater Accesssiblity Through Audio In Killer Instinct

September 26, 2017 by Michael Klier

Zack Quarles, Audio Director & Supervising Sound Designer at Microsoft, has written a comprehensive article on the methods & techniques used in the fighting game Killer Instinct, to achieve better accessibility for players without sight through audio. You can read the full story here. … [Read more...]

Role-playing with Sound: An Interview with Drew Becker

November 11, 2016 by Adriane Kuzminski

A sign hangs painted with a mystical coat of arms and the words "A hero's call"

As we continue our series focusing on the creators and artists of blind-accessible games, we now interview sound designer Drew Becker. Drew has worked on titles such as Woodsy Studio's Serafina’s Crown and their recently released Echoes of the Fey: The Fox’s Trail. Drew is also the sound designer for the upcoming blind-accessible turn-based strategy game, A Hero's Call, … [Read more...]

Using Your Ears in ‘Sight Unseen’: An Interview with Kedar Shashidhar

November 8, 2016 by Adriane Kuzminski

Continuing our series about the audio artists behind blind-accessible game development, we now speak to Kedar Shashidhar, Founder and Creative Director of the BlackOut VR game studio. His team is currently in the QA phase of their first blind-accessible horror game, Sight Unseen. Kedar was kind enough to share stories about developing this immersive ear-lead experience … [Read more...]

Accessible Gameplay for Blind and Sighted Players – An Interview with Per Anders Östblad

August 29, 2016 by Adriane Kuzminski

With this month's theme of Pure Sound Design, there is no better time than now to talk to the creators of blind-accessible games that communicate their gameplay and stories through audio. However, must these experiences contain only audio? Per Anders Östblad—a Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration at his alma-mater, The University of Skövde—doesn't think so and shows … [Read more...]

Posts By Month

Copyright Info

All content on Designing Sound is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in