Beards, Cats And Indie Game Audio

This month we talk about burnout. What it means and what you might be able to do about it when it comes to your creative work. And then we answer some real good questions.

This month we have the wonderful Jennifer Lewis (@jlew42) on to talk with us. We chat about community and moving from AAA to indie and a bunch of other stuff. Although we didn't mention it in the episode due to when we recorded it we'd like to mention the passing of Jory Prum. While we didn't know Jory personally we due know a lot of our listeners did and we truly wish we had. He sounds like he was a great human being and a wonderful person to have in game audio sharing his knowledge and making our industry a better brighter place. There is a wonderful write up here from people who knew him better.  http://designingsound.org/2016/04/remembering-jory-prum/ RIP Jory, you will be missed.

It's that time of year we head to GDC, lose our voices and interview someone not from Vancouver. This time around we had the pleasure of sitting down with Damian Kastbauer (@lostlab) and talk about technical sound design and community building.

At it again, just putting it out under the wire. It's the February 2016 episode of the podcast. Number 25. This time around we go over the VR talk Gordon did at our PNW audio con. We talk about the various things he's found out working on a VR game and VR ads. And then we answer some questions. 

In just under the wire but here's the January 2016 episode. This time we talk about the mini-con we had in Bellingham brining the Vancouver and Seattle game audio together. I give a recap of the talk I did then. 3 Interesting Things About 3 Interesting Games. And then we do the usual answer some questions bit.

A little late in the month but we still made it in. Was a real pleasure to find ourselves at the Sony Playstation Experience in San Francisco this month and be able to sit down with Joonas Turner. Joonas is an awesome guy and talented sound designer and voice actor from Finland with a broad range of games he's worked on.

Well it's a late one but it's still in November so here's episode 22! We been busy so the only time we had together was the car ride to the Seattle game audio meetup. So a car recorded episode it is! This time around we talk about sound libraries focusing on some tips for building your own libraries and as always take some questions from the internet.

Rolling in late but rolling in regardless. This time around it's just the two of us in the Klei recording room chatting about what makes a good sound. We've even got examples! We try to give an idea of what we think makes a good sound before you hit implementation. And then we answer a bunch of questions from you guys.

Here we are again. Anther episode. This time from my hotel room at PAX Prime 2015. We take this chance to sit down with Jay Fernandes who does audio and audio QA and talk about some of that and loudness standards and a couple of twitter questions and this is a really long run on sentence.

We were lucky enough to sit down with Chanel Summers again! The first time we've had a return guest. We talk about what Chanel has been up to lately, talk about our local sound design meetup demo critique night and answer some questions.

This time around we talk a little more business stuff. Jeff Tangsoc from Power Up Audio joins us to talk about being and using contractors. We answer a bunch of questions as always and run through what makes a good contractor.

Here we are at episdoe 17 and Michael Dobson joins us to talk about voiceover in games. Not much to say other then that. It's all voice with an amazing guy to have a conversation with.    

That time again for the episode we record while in the car driving to the Digipen Audio Symposium.  We talk about what we've been up to lately, answer some questions and talk about what we heard at the Audio Symposium. And pimp our games that are coming out this week. 

Here we are with episode 15. We're both finishing off games so we decieded to talk about that. And prepro at the same time. And then answered a few questions.

This month we managed to sit down with Austin Wintory while we were all at GDC and chat for awhile. From a seat on the floor at the back of Moscone we talk about game music, GDC, cats, beards and some other game audio related stuff. Unfortunately due to time we had to cut our Seinfeld/Firefly/ST:NTG conversation.    Show notes. 00:00:00 Austin Wintory Introduction Austin Websitehttp://austinwintory.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_WintoryGDC Website http://www.gdconf.com 00:02:33 IGF Awards http://www.igf.com/02finalists.htmlInvisble Inc http://www.invisibleincgame.com/ Phonopath http://www.phonopath.com/ Banner Saga http://stoicstudio.com/ Journey http://thatgamecompany.com/games/journey/ 00:05:05 Stoic’s origin story 00:08:40 Voice­over in Banner Saga and considerations for including voice­over in a game 00:10:30 Creating a sense of urgency for yourself and your music 00:11:35 Experiencing people’s personal reactions to your work Leisure Suit Larry https://www.replaygamesinc.com/index/g

Here we are again. This time around we chat about some new gear we each got and give a little advice if you're going to go buy some yourself. We talk about working a convention with your developers. And answer a bunch of good questions you sent us.   Show notes.   Gear: 00:00:00 MiniBrute. http://www.arturia.com/products/hardware­synths/minibrute Telefunkin M82 http://www.telefunken- elektroakustik.com/products/mics/show_product.php?item=38 Shure SM7B http://www.shure.com/americas/products/microphones/sm/sm7b­vocal-microphone Sony PCM­D50 http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat­audio/resource.latest.bbsccms­assets-cat­audio­latest­pcmd50.shtml   Working a Conference: 00:05:50 The List https://www.patreon.com/creation?hid=855193&rf=177452 Matthew’s post­conference interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVxfgI5BVJE   Q&A 1. 00:24:40 Chris Trevino: What sort of documentation do you use to keep track of versions/edits of material while you're in development? Everything down from your DAW sessi

This episode we talk about making sample libraries, field recording ethics, tiny year in review and questions from Twitter. Thanks to everyone who's been listening all year. We can't wait to see what the next year of BCAIGA brings us.

This time around we sit down with Réal Cardinal who has done a lot of AAA work with Bioware and has recently moved over to the indie world. We talk about all kinds of stuff including some questions from twitter.

This time around we talk about some random things that have been rattling around. A little ranting about stupid questions, mastering audio, copy protection, free NASA sounds and a reader question

This time around we answer some questions, Gord has some announcments and interviews Jacob McMurray from the Experience Music Project.   I'll fill in some links of things we talked about soon.  First SFX from our recording at the fair  https://soundcloud.com/ashellinthepit/sets/sfx