Game Sound Design Links

Our blog posts relating to Game Sound Design

Main links
Game Audio Relevance Links

Game Developers Conference

The Game Audio Podcast
Kenneth Young's Gamesound

Karen Collin's Gamessound

Game Audio Network Guild

Gamasutra Audio articles

Develop Magazine Articles

Mix Magazine's Game Audio Supplements
Lost Chocolate Lab + Lost Chocolate Blog
Designing Sound
Rob Bridgett Lectures
Project BBQ
Leonard Paul's Talks

Various
Battlefield 4 blog
Nick Arundel : Sound Design Mini Masterclass
Everything you ever wanted to know about footsteps !
Mixing for games - AMPS Panel Discussion MP3
A beginners guide to adaptive audio for games
The Sounds of Skyrim
Next-Gen Audio Square-Off: PlayStation 3 vs. Xbox 360
Microsoft games studios audio director Guy Whitmore on DSP plugins for the 360

Creating an interactive audio environment

Producing audio for Halo

Challenges in sound design for interactive media

Audio design documents

Singstar

James Hannigan's writings

Harnessing the power of music and sound design in interactive media

Sound Design resource

Oblivion game audio diary

Weapon recording for games audio

Extract from ‘Audio Programming for interactive games’

Rail Simulator and EAX

Call of duty

Sound design for Call of Duty PSP

Audio at electronic arts

Tips for game sound designers

Sound for the Playstation 2

Sound design for Heavenly Sword

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

Gears of war 2

Little big planet
Game audio article in 'Electronic Musician' By Nick Peck

Vehicle sound design

Car / Vehicle sounds for games
Sound for flatout 2

Capturing engine sounds for games
Various links from TrackTimeAudio
Rev - Procedural modelling for engines

Game Sound Acoustics

Audio concepts in plain English

Modern audio technologies in games
Nikunj Raghuvanshi Sound Propagation Research
Damian Murphy Acoustic Modelling
Sound Synthesis and Propagation

Mixing

http://gameaudiomix.com/

Panel discussion GDC Canada

Old Skool / Solutions for small  / Mobile 

Brian Schmidt on an ingeneous old skool solutions for the XBox start up sound. 

FMod for Android 

Procedural Audio
Procedural-Audio.com
Audio-Media Article Sept 2009
Andy Farnell
Interview with Nicholas Fournel
Summary of issues by Stephan Rutherford
Interview with AudioGaming

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Game audio development tools and middleware

fmod

Wwise
Article in mix magazine

XACT

Directmusic Producer

Articles in mix magazine by Alex Brandon looking at all of these and more !
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Game music and interactive music links

Good intro

Music 4 games – Various interviews

LOTR Two Towers Discussion

General Discussion

Midi is the future !

Demon Stone Discussion

A brief timeline of video game music

Interactive composition

Interactive composition 2

Interview with Guy Whitmore

Design with music in mind, Guy Whitmore.

Adaptive audio

Videogame music - Not just kids stuff

An overview of direct music producer

Adaptive audio : No one lives forever

Composing for interactive music

Composing and implementing interactive music

Creating interactive music

The Game of Music

Talk by Brian Eno

Music and sound for F.E.A.R.

Enhancing the impact of music in drama oriented games

Musical techniques for interactivity

Bioshock score discussion

Music techniques in Dead Space

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