Brian Schmidt is a 25-year game audio veteran and an independent Game Audio Consultant, Composer and Sound Designer at Brian Schmidt Studios, LLC. He is also the founder and Executive Director ofGameSoundCon. Brian sits on the GDC Advisory Board and is President of the Game Audio Network Guild. He also founded EarGames, a new game company writing unique "video" games that rely on sound rather than visuals for gameplay.
Game Industry veteran Brian Schmidt discusses how as a game developer or publisher a better understanding of music performance rights can put more money in everyone's pocket. This is the first in a series on Music Rights and the game industry.
Designing the Boot Sound for the Original Xbox required going 'old-school' and the use of sequenced, real-time generated sound.
This blog post describes some of the challenges of creating the sound and the design process itself.
Just in--- r nUnfortunately, the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media went to Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross for the score for the film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo r n r nBut congratulations to Austin, for his trailblazing nomination.
Very nice article-- However, I would differ on at least one point. r nYou say: r n First and foremost, play through the entirety of your game and create an Audio Asset list. r n r nIf you have waited until you can play through the entirety of your game ...
Totally agree that realism isn't what people want or what sells units... Hollywood as well as games have always exaggerated audio, whether it was making explosions unnatually large or punches and whooshes bizzarely loud and pronounced.. Great comments all around, but ironically I actually wasn't referring to sound itself in ...
Physically modelling sound turns out to be quite difficult. One of the things that makes sounds rich and exciting is all the nuance and imperfections in real-world objects. Even quite complicated physical models are still massively simplified, and as a result generate sounds which while passable, aren't all that great. ...
Anyone have any information on how they did on Xmas day Specifically, did a presumably higher than average number of concurrent users affect the overall experience
