1st Edition

The Game Audio Tutorial A Practical Guide to Sound and Music for Interactive Games

By Richard Stevens, Dave Raybould Copyright 2011
448 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

Design and implement video game sound from beginning to end with this hands-on course in game audio. Music and sound effects speak to players on a deep level, and this book will show you how to design and implement powerful, interactive sound that measurably improves gameplay. If you are a sound designer or composer and want to do more than just create audio elements and hand them over to someone... Read more
Chapter 1 Basic Training; Chapter 2 How Big is the Truck?; Chapter 3 Making it Sound Real; Chapter 4 Music Systems; Chapter 5 Dialogue; Chapter 6 Making it Sound Good; Chapter 7 Advanced Sound System Design; Chapter 8 Next Steps;

Biography

Richard Stevens

If you want to learn about game audio implementation, this is the book for you! Stevens and Raybould have written a thorough practical, hands-on guide to sound and music implementation in games and, by doing so, present the reader with an excellent introduction to the concepts of interactive game sound. Speckled with humour and written in an accessible style, this book is sure to find a home in many classrooms and homes of aspiring sound designers, composers and audio programmers.
-Karen Collins, Canada Research Chair in Interactive Audio, University of Waterloo, author of Game Sound (MIT Press)