The sound team on Firaxis Games ‘Sid Meier’s Civilization VII’ discuss their approach to taking the game’s sound to new heights by honoring the past and embracing the new, designing new sounds for biomes, cities, units, wonders, and disasters, composing an incredibly diverse collection of music, working with a new in-game narrator: Gwendoline Christie, developing systems for dynamic prioritization and real-time mixing to create seamless audio transitions on zooms, and much, much more!
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‘The Midnight Walk’ Lead Audio Designer/Lead Programmer Ola Sivefäldt and Senior Sound Designer Christian Björklund break down their approach to sound designing and mixing one of the most unique-looking indie games released this year! ‘The Midnight Walk’ is available for PS5 and Steam (fully playable in both flatscreen and VR modes), and the game’s sound is exactly the same for both. Here, they talk about the challenges of creating sounds that work for VR and flatscreen, working within UE5’s audio environment, designing characters using organic sounds, working with composer Joel Bille, and much, much more!
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The ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ sound team talks all things audio about their approach to music, designing weapons, creatures, and ambiences, creating systems for interactive music, foley and breaths, working with UE5’s audio pipeline, dynamic mixing, and much, much more!
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Learn how the game audio team crafted a glorious sonic experience – by developing a dynamic weather system and navigation/parkour system, collaborating with composers Alexis Smith and Joe Henson of The Flight, designing the illusion of a civil war happening around the player, creating thousands of combat-related sound effects, crafting The Animus ‘virtual world,’ creating effective haptic feedback, and so much more!
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Audio Director Aram Shahbazians and Lead Sound Designer Camilla Coccia on designing a rich audio experience by using traditional Italian musical instruments as the foundation for the game’s sound design & much more:
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We’ve compiled the ultimate collection of Star Wars sound stories for you – giving you an extraordinary deep-dive into the iconic sounds of the franchise:
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Go behind the sound with Hazelight Studios’ game audio team as they reveal how they crafted the fantastical sound worlds of Split Fiction — from designing otherworldly sci-fi and fantasy audio to solving the wild challenge of mixing for split-screen co-op:
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Go behind the game music for Funcom’s upcoming Dune Awakening, in this excellent new video featuring composer Knut Avenstroup Haugen, and Audio Director Arild Iversen:
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