The Game Audio Strategy Guide

Author : Gina Zdanowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351016415
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game Audio Strategy Guide written by Gina Zdanowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros. Providing both a theoretical foundation and practical insights, The Game Audio Strategy Guide offers a thorough look at the tools and methods needed to create industry-quality music and sound design for games. The text is supported by an extensive companion website, featuring numerous practical tutorials and exercises, which allows the reader to gain hands-on experience creating and implementing audio assets for games. The Game Audio Strategy Guide is the essential manual for anyone interested in creating audio for games, inside or outside the classroom.

Author : Keith Zizza
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000899373
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Game Audio Fundamentals written by Keith Zizza and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game Audio Fundamentals takes the reader on a journey through game audio design: from analog and digital audio basics to the art and execution of sound effects, soundtracks, and voice production, as well as learning how to make sense of a truly effective soundscape. Presuming no pre-existing knowledge, this accessible guide is accompanied by online resources – including practical examples and incremental DAW exercises – and presents the theory and practice of game audio in detail, and in a format anyone can understand. This is essential reading for any aspiring game audio designer, as well as students and professionals from a range of backgrounds, including music, audio engineering, and game design.

Author : Mason McCuskey
Publisher : Course Technology
ISBN 13 : 9781592000296
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Game Audio Programming written by Mason McCuskey and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a step-by-step guide to composing dynamic music and programming 3D sound as well as creating sound effects and music for games.

Author : Steve Horowitz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134595379
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Game Audio written by Steve Horowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind textbook and must-have reference guide for everything you ever wanted to know about sound for games. This book provides a basic overview of game audio, how it has developed over time, and how you can make a career in this industry. Each chapter gives you the background and context you will need to understand the unique workflow associated with interactive media. The practical, easy to understand interactive examples provide hands-on experience applying the concepts in real world situations.

Author : Christopher Hopkins
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646058
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Video Game Audio written by Christopher Hopkins and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the one-bit beeps of Pong to the 3D audio of PlayStation 5, this book examines historical trends in video game sound and music. A range of game systems sold in North America, Europe and Japan are evaluated by their audio capabilities and industry competition. Technical fine points are explored, including synthesized v. sampled sound, pre-recorded v. dynamic audio, backward compatibility, discrete and multifunctional soundchips, storage media, audio programming documentation, and analog v. digital outputs. A timeline chronicles significant developments in video game sound for PC, NES, Dreamcast, Xbox, Wii, Game Boy, PSP, iOS and Android devices and many others.

Author : Melanie Fritsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316999440
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music written by Melanie Fritsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools for readers to engage with the music in new ways. Many popular games are analysed, including Super Mario Galaxy, Bastion, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero and the Katamari, Gran Turismo and Tales series. Topics include chiptunes, compositional processes, localization, history and game music concerts. The book also engages with other disciplines such as psychology, music analysis, business strategy and critical theory, and will prove an equally valuable resource for readers active in the industry, composers or designers, and music students and scholars.

Author : Tim Summers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100937138X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queerness of Video Game Music written by Tim Summers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video game music is a significant site of queerness where normative demands are questioned, suspended or loosened. Games resist hegemonic musical logics, challenge musical value systems and use music to complicate essentialist notions of identity. This Element proposes three areas of queerness, each representing different relationships between 'queer design' and 'queer engagement', ranging fromunintentionally resistive to explicit engagement with identity. First, this Element examines musical structures that provide queer temporal alternatives to normative linear development, and interactive systems that reframe the power relationship between musical material and listener. Second, it considers 'retro' or 'chiptune' timbres that queer notions of technological progress to be improvements, rejecting chrononormativity. Finally, the Element discusses music that queers the self/other binary of identity. Games present ways of listening to, engaging with and understanding music that provide opportunities to challenge inherited assumptions and reductive or monolithic values, practices and identities.

Author : J. Martin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000925439
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludotronics Game Design Methodology written by J. Martin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book supports readers to transition to more advanced independent game projects by deepening their understanding of the concept development process. It covers how to make concepts sufficiently viable, ambitious, and innovative to warrant the creation of a polished prototype in preparation of a publisher pitch. The book is divided into six sections. After a brief tutorial (Preliminary Phase), readers embark on a journey along the book’s methodology. They travel through successive conceptual phases (Preparations, Procedures, Processes, and Propositions); advance through levels and action beats in each of these phases; master challenges (conceptual tasks) and overcome level bosses (design decisions) that become successively harder; collect items (fulfilled documentation tasks); and “win” the game by having progressed from a raw, initial idea to a full-fledged, polished game treatment. Additional resources for the book are available at ludotronics.net. This book is designed to support junior and senior year BA or MA students in game design programs, as well as novice indie developers and those in the early stages of their game design career.

Author : Aaron Marks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0240810740
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Game Audio written by Aaron Marks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn your musical passion into a profitable career with this guide to the business & technical skills you need to succeed in the games industry. Step-by-step instructions lead you through the entire music & sound effects process - from developing the essential skills & purchasing the right equipment to keeping your clients happy.

Author : Richard Stevens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113612702X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Game Audio Tutorial written by Richard Stevens and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 else for insertion into the game, this book is for you. You'll understand the game development process and implement vital audio experiences-not just create music loops or one-off sound effects. The Game Audio Tutorial isn't just a book-you also get a powerful website (www.thegameaudiotutorial.com)