Team Audio Relies On You To Let Us Know
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) I bet you don’t realize how much audio relies on you to inform us of stuff. Well, maybe you do, in your endless brilliance, but...
View ArticleI Want It To Sound Chocolatey
Sometimes people seem afraid to talk to audio designers. And not because we're emotional, or eccentric, or because our offices smell weird, like a gym sock with a turd in it, even though all of those...
View ArticleWhat Isn’t Sound Design?
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) What isn’t sound design? That’s a weird question. Well, not that weird. It’s not like asking why I frequently wear briefs made...
View ArticleTry Using E-Prime to Communicate
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) It seems like a good time to take a step back from focusing on Team Audio for this post. This post relates to communication,...
View ArticleTeam Audio: Emotion Designers
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) I think our current titles might be throwing people off. Sound designer, audio designer, audio artist… they just don’t convey...
View ArticleMaking Rad Audio For Everyone
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) Team Audio is tasked with making the game sound amazing for everyone. Every single player should have an equally rad aural...
View ArticleThe Role of Technical Sound Design
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) I caught up with Damian Kastbauer, technical sound designer, in the sticky jungles of the Congo last week. He was questing for...
View ArticleA Big Jumbled Blog About Joining Team Audio
(Originally posted on AltDevBlogADay.com and featured on gamasutra.com.) I keep writing and rewriting this blog. First it was going to be about our hiring process at Volition. Then it was going to be...
View ArticleI Feel Like a Fraud, and So Can You!
(Originally posted on Designing Sound.) I Feel Like a Fraud and So Can You! Every now and then I feel like a fraud. Every now and then I feel like I’m merely masquerading as a professional. Every now...
View ArticleUnity Audio Scripting – Simple Random Container
I made this simple audio script in C# for a little Unity project I’m making and thought I’d share. This is super simple stuff, but I found it hard to find exactly this out there on the web. You can …...
View ArticleStarObject – a toy for my son (and you)
Download StarObject for Windows. Download StarObject for Mac. Described by a colleague as an attempt to drywall outer space. I made this in Unity for my three year old son. Basically, left click as...
View ArticleUnity Audio Scripting: StarObject Audio Script
Here’s a simple C# audio script that I used in StarObject. Fully realize it’s not perfect, but it does get the job done. It constantly crossfades between two random audio clips that are located in a...
View ArticleI Want It To Sound Chocolatey
Sometimes people seem afraid to talk to audio designers. And not because we're emotional, or eccentric, or because our offices smell weird, like a gym sock with a turd in it, even though all of those...
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