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Video Game Audio Leonard J. Paul School of Video Game Audio http://School.VideoGameAudio.com @SchoolGameAudio Resources: Resources: Download Downloadthis thistalk talkfrom: from: VideoGameAudio.com VideoGameAudio.com Email: Email: School{at}VideoGameAudio.com School{at}VideoGameAudio.com School: School: School.VideoGameAudio.com School.VideoGameAudio.com Twitter: Twitter: Twitter.com/VideoGameAudio Twitter.com/VideoGameAudio School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 2 Overview of Games Industry ● ● ● 24hr sales for Grand Theft Auto V $815M1 vs. The Avengers opening box office 48hrs of $207M2 $82B worldwide estimated3 games revenues for 2014 vs. $90B film4 Budgets – GTA V: $265M5 – Pirates of the Caribbean 3: $300M – Halo Destiny: $500M?6 School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 3 A “Quaint” Game Audio History ● 1985 - Koji Kondo - Super Mario Bros - NES ● 1985 - Rob Hubbard - Monty on the Run - C64 ● 1987 - Final Fantasy - NES & Harp ● 1990 - Michael Land - Monkey Island - PC MIDI ● 1996 - NIN - Quake - PC Future: ● 2014 - Paul McCartney – Halo Destiny - XBOne School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 4 Game Audio Machines ● ● 1982 - Commodore 64 (C64) – 3 voices (pulse, sawtooth, triangle, noise) – Filter effects & ring modulation 1983 - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) – ● 2 pulse waves, triangle wave, noise channel and limited sampled sound channel 2013 - Playstation 4 (PS4) – 512+ channels, many effects – HDMI 7.1 audio School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 5 Retro City Rampage ● ● ● In Retro City Rampage almost all sounds & music are synthesized from pulse, triangle and noise waves Mod tracker allows composer control over parameters, synthesis and samples but is also tricky to learn OpenModPlug Tracker is free School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 6 Game History ● 1977 – Atari VCS / 2600 ● 1 mhz processor, 16 colours... Combat (1977 Atari) School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 7 Game Audio ● Combat = 2KB ROM! 2 Voices School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com 78 88 20 14 85 8d fb 85 de 85 0e 87 e6 0e 1e f0 a6 4a f0 b5 ec 85 87 a0 a0 85 50 f7 01 20 a5 2a e0 ca a2 86 00 ca f5 b5 38 c9 95 95 0a 90 2b a5 95 02 85 85 95 4a a8 02 a5 b5 90 95 10 10 29 d6 d8 20 44 f0 02 96 85 02 85 de a4 85 e2 85 9a 02 45 4a f0 85 d0 0d a9 02 0e 88 e6 85 85 25 85 60 b5 10 03 d1 90 f0 85 ac e9 db a4 0b 0a 02 85 8a 19 85 d2 d1 93 4a c8 4a a3 d8 0c 99 f4 f4 03 99 a2 a3 f4 e6 85 02 02 ca df a4 e3 02 e6 02 38 b5 b4 4a 04 0d 9c 85 ff a5 84 ad 80 a3 81 f5 11 a2 a1 e1 20 18 0d d7 b0 29 08 b0 e0 29 0a 88 8a c9 a9 d5 a4 f0 a5 4a b9 4a 30 95 c9 a9 4c a9 f0 a9 ff f1 20 86 00 60 85 d0 85 e0 b9 05 e1 a9 a5 bd 29 a8 a9 b1 a6 0e 85 dd dc 82 a2 49 85 a9 a9 01 29 60 54 65 b5 60 24 03 85 04 02 0f c9 88 c9 f7 08 ad 85 04 d1 4a 37 4a 08 d6 30 ff ae 30 0c 00 9a 20 14 85 85 a9 2c fb 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08 1d 10 44 0e 00 04 00 20 8f 24 98 00 a9 07 19 75 2c b5 85 03 95 36 97 f0 69 04 95 b5 49 00 f7 a3 a3 f7 f7 00 c0 d1 a2 ca 0e aa 22 f6 f6 e4 c0 80 da fb 79 9e df fe 0c 30 7f 04 5d 5a f0 ff b0 1d 16 0c 32 f0 38 00 00 21 f6 28 90 00 00 95 b9 8b 24 a1 28 4c 9f b5 f6 0b 08 a5 e4 95 01 95 85 10 0a 85 85 0a 4a a2 03 10 22 aa 22 06 f6 f4 e0 80 da 7c ff ff 3e 7c 1c 38 3e 8f 1a 78 7c 0f 70 05 16 0c 2c 10 00 00 07 ff f6 08 a1 00 95 19 36 a8 84 18 85 01 b5 9d 97 c9 95 37 d0 18 a8 a8 bb 0a 0a b6 b7 aa 4a ff b9 ef 22 ee 22 06 06 04 00 84 db 1c ff ff 38 78 fc 3f 1e 7f 1a 2c 4f 1f ff 00 0f 07 8a 10 00 00 1f 00 f6 20 83 00 9d b5 f7 8a 50 69 29 f5 34 d0 b5 03 97 10 14 69 b9 95 bd 29 24 85 bd bd 4a ad 65 60 22 22 22 06 16 14 20 20 6d 1f 4e 72 f8 30 fc 3f 0c 72 30 0c e3 0f 91 00 0f 07 da 10 00 00 3f 00 75 00 e8 00 Slide 8 4c 9b 95 0a 06 01 a9 b5 30 19 97 90 4c 09 d6 08 97 aa c9 08 a3 b8 d4 5d 4a 82 f7 a9 22 22 ee 16 16 24 40 88 ee 3e 0e 70 7c 30 1e 78 0c 07 f0 06 02 50 b1 00 00 00 80 10 60 ff 7f 00 75 48 c8 f0 cb 95 15 79 b5 95 00 9f 07 f6 29 15 d4 a5 e4 20 00 95 f7 f0 30 85 f7 f7 a8 02 45 00 22 ee aa 17 17 26 44 88 ee 18 04 20 18 30 06 60 0c 00 60 0c 00 5f 71 00 00 00 9c 10 20 00 ff 80 75 40 e0 0f f3 17 18 39 9b a1 95 f0 a9 9f 03 d0 f4 8a 30 0f 29 8d 85 04 06 ba 85 85 a5 29 d1 e8 ee 88 ee 18 18 28 48 92 00 19 08 98 60 00 10 40 00 10 18 08 00 51 ff 00 00 01 da 10 20 00 00 80 9a 54 c0 11 Introduction 1994 - FIFA International Soccer - SNES(EAC) ● School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 9 Some Game Music I've Worked On ● 2010 – NBA Jam by EA ● 2012 – Vessel ● 2012 – Retro City Rampage ● 2013 – Sim Cell School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 10 NBA Jam 2010 School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 11 Vessel School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 12 Retro City Rampage School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 13 Sim Cell School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 14 Let's Make Some Game Audio! School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 15 Game Audio Flowchart Game (Physics, Graphics, AI etc..) Sound location Maya, Unity3D, Cube... Level Editor sound_tag Hardware Independent Code Game Audio Code Behaviour audio_event Hardware Dependent Code Sound Driver Code Sound Tool .WAV Wwise, FMOD, Unity3D... Commercial DAW ProTools, Nuendo, Logic... MP3, OGG, AAC... audio data Audio Output School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 16 Game Audio Industry ● ● ● US mainstream video game industry salary in 2014 average was $83,060 USD1 Sound designers & composers earned an average of $95,682 Note: Possible small sample size for statistics School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 17 Game Audio Overview ● ● ● Like film audio, game audio is comprised of speech, sound effects & music However, unlike film audio, the audio is interactive and must respond to changes in gameplay Older systems were limited by RAM so synthesis was best then systems had more RAM to allow for sampling School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 18 Contractor Rates ● Approx. $1000/min. of music for work-for-hire1&2 ● Extra is charged for difficulty level of music ● Casual games and licensing are less ● ● Sound effects are sometimes as low as $5 to $75+ per sound effect depending on complexity Speech lines are often billed by the line and usually separate out voice talent fees School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 19 Questions? School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 20 More More Information Information Email: Email: School{at}VideoGameAudio.com School{at}VideoGameAudio.com Download Downloadthis thistalk: talk: VideoGameAudio.com VideoGameAudio.com School: School: School.VideoGameAudio.com School.VideoGameAudio.com Twitter: Twitter: Twitter.com/VideoGameAudio Twitter.com/VideoGameAudio School.VideoGameAudio.com School {at} VideoGameAudio.com Banff Centre July 23, 2014 Slide 21