There is no doubt that Dead Space was one of the best games of 2008 and personally, the best game sound design and music of that year. I have collected some information and videos about the sound on this game, let's see.. Developer: Visceral Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Game Engine: Godfather Game engine Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows Genre: Survival … [Read more...]
Rob Bridgett and "The Game Audio Mixing Revolution"
Rob Bridgett, one of the first to complete the Master's degree in Sound Design for the Moving Image at Bournemouth University in 1999, has a series of articles at Gamasutra called "The future of Game Audio". On May 14 Bob presented the first part of the series: Is Interactive Mixing The Key? And heres is the second part: The Game Audio Mixing Revolution. Bridgett gathers … [Read more...]
Music and Sound Design for The Conduit (Wii) by Diego Stocco
Music 4 Games has done an interview with Diego Stocco to talk about his profession and the Sound Design/Music Composition of The Conduit, a new first-person shooter exclusively yo the Nintendo Wii. Diegoo is an composer and sound designer. He produces music for Spectrasonics, and is one of the principal sound designers of Atmosphere and the amazing core library of Stylus RMX … [Read more...]
GameSoundcon, the First Conference Dedicated to the Learning of Games Sound and Music
GameSoundCon is the first conference to game audio developers and audio professionals who want to learn the necessary skills to be successful in the game industry. An intensive two-day seminar for composers, sound designers and audio professionals, teaching the unique creative, technical and business challenges essential to work in the game music and game sound industry. … [Read more...]
Sound Design Essentials: Websites
Everything have a start point. Here is the first part of a series of essential resources, sites, tutorials, and tools related with this funny thing called sound design. I begin with 30 websites for learning sound design for games, film and interactive media. General purpose KVR Audio - The Internet's number one news and information resource for open standard audio plug-ins. … [Read more...]