Hi all,
Just catching up with things from the last half of February and hoping that everyone is enjoying their first week of courses with us! If you have work ready to go, feel free to submit it early too, the deadlines are just to help you stay on track if you're wanting to get the course done in the default two months of enrolment.
Fun to see Viviana's latest title, Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, was used by Oxford University to find that "video game play is positively correlated with well-being"! https://twitter.com/SchoolGameAudio/status/1364245323141369857
These days I'm testing out some new possibilities with visual scripting with Bolt in Unity: https://twitter.com/SchoolGameAudio/status/1362069356482469890
Great to see our grads join the #gameaudio call in offering to help with any game audio questions that you might have: Emily, Timothy,
& Alphonso.
Some more news from our student community:
- James shows his current 3DGK work in FMOD: https://twitter.com/spidertears/status/1364724992462659585
- Jef's latest game: https://twitter.com/AudioBender/status/1364615058534334467
- Survive and Thrive panel presentation with Tom: https://twitter.com/TomBennettAudio/status/1362479590225162240
- New music from Shayne: https://twitter.com/sonicjohnsonMG/status/1362559515430842368
Plus news in the wider game audio community:
- IGDA Diverse Game Developers $250K fund: https://igdafoundation.org/diverse-game-developers-fund/
- Real-time audio coding in C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=aVLRUyPBBJk&list=PLCrgFeG6pwQmdbB6l3ehC8oBBZbatVoz3
- Getting your music in a video game: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-02-17-how-to-get-your-music-placed-in-a-video-game
- The Sonic Universe of Creaks: https://twitter.com/fmodstudio/status/1362625155717992448
- Artistic projects with Wwise: https://twitter.com/audiokinetic/status/1365023426843443202
- Free samples: https://twitter.com/DonutShoes/status/1365097456292274189
- Gear is not the Ticket in the Game Audio Community by Ali Tocher: https://www.asoundeffect.com/game-audio-gear/
- Controller whooshes: https://twitter.com/antonaudio/status/1365844522630934536
One advantage of our courses is that you can ask me any game audio questions you'd like. Looking forward to hearing from you!
-Leonard