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Games have mechanics based centrally on audio. Recently Animal Crossing New Horizon has a fishing mechanic. When you fish , you have to wait for a certain noise or animation to click for when the fish is caught. I close my eyes while playing when using the rod and wait for the sound. Its almostContinue reading “Mechanics based on Audio”

In music for games people usually think of the opening theme song or the music to the first or a favourite level and view its purpose as only that. Certain sound effects are though also considered cannon, for example when in Crash Bandicoot you obtain a mask there is a fantastic tribal sound that everyContinue reading “Music On The Side: In Gaming”

I specialised in Audio for my University degree in first and now second year. I was set 4 audio briefs by my University lecturer on my Games Design and Development course for assessed coursework. I had a list ofbriefs to choose from and chose my first brief quickly. I chose a brief that required idContinue reading “Audio Brief 1”

I grew up as a young child in the 1990’s and early 00’s. The pop music I heard was seminal for me and evoked a time of halcyon days. Even the commercial pop I heard on Capital FM , I interrupted as deep and truly joyous. In my later teenage years I got into moreContinue reading “My Musical Past”

I love to produce audio of all kinds such as ambience , music and sound effects. I do this using audio creation software on my laptop and also using props to aid my Foley art. There is a decent amount of DAW ‘s and audio creation software’s available. There is Logic which is only onContinue reading “My Audio Software Preference”

I have recently got The Elder Scrolls Online on PS4 for a birthday present from two close friends. The only other MMO’s I have properly played are WoW (for an embarrassingly insane amount of hours) and Runescape (slightly less amount of hours but still a cringe worthy amount). I loved both of these games dueContinue reading “My Tamrial (online) EXP”

I have always had an penchant for emerging myself into a different atmosphere from reality and entering a environment made by video games. I do this through mainly immersing myself via the vehicle of the ambient music in said games. Video games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill really made me feel scared orContinue reading “Power of Ambience”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.