Here’s a few video clips from some of the projects I’ve been working on throughout July and August while studying on the School of Video Game Audio’s Unity course.
Grenadier Footstep Sound Re-Design
Grenadier Grenade Sounds Re-Design
Viking Village Water Submersion Toggle
It was incredibly good fun to work with Kim Lomas (Level Designer) Sean Hall (Programmer) Juliana Milusheva and Ythen Sawers (3D Artists) on 'After the Storm', a short game we made for the GJL Game Parade Spring Jam!
The theme for this jam was 'Strength Lies In Differences', and the story for our game is as follows:
“As the thunder rolls in, a catastrophic tsunami hits the once vibrant and lively beach town you reside in, separating you from your family. After finding a small boat in the place you took shelter in, you set out to find and reunite with them, but it’s the kindness of strangers that will help you on your way. As you come across survivors, you must find a way to communicate with each despite speaking different languages. Help them on your journey and they may help you in return.”
The game is available to play directly in your browser from the itch.io page:
https://seanwhall.itch.io/after-the-storm
Music is from Phil Michalski + Brandon Boone’s ‘Digital Illusions’ pack.
It was great to work as an Assistant Sound Designer for We Make Audio on Gods Will Fall, which launches today!
I helped out for a couple of months with core game SFX.
Keep your eyes on We Make Audio for more details on this exciting project!
Howdy doody folks!
Hope you’re all safe and well out there - at the time of writing, everything’s still in lockdown here in the UK with the Covid-19 pandemic. Whilst things are on a bit of a lull at the moment and the flow of time itself feels convoluted, I thought now would perhaps be a good time to write a quick post on what I’ve been up to lately.
It’s been a while since my last blog post, and despite the scary state of the world at the moment, 2020 has been a pretty busy year for me so far, despite all the chaos. I can’t go into any specifics, but I will say that I’ve worked at Immotion Studios on a couple of super fun projects throughout February and March, and I’ve been working as a freelance sound designer for We Make Audio since early Feb!
I’ve also got a couple of half-finished projects I’ve had on the backburner for absolutely ages now, so I thought now would finally be a good time to actually get these finished up and put out in the world. These include my Steampunk Robot sound pack, as well as some music tracks from a couple of different projects that I never got around to releasing. Watch this space for a little bit longer, and I’ll have them out as soon as possible…I hope!
I’ve also been getting a lot of emails from audio students asking for help with Wwise implementation issues in the Unity 3D Game Kit, so I’m considering possibly making some kind of short tutorial or walkthrough to act as a standalone guide that hopefully helps people out? If you’re reading this and that’s something that would appeal to you, then definitely get in touch and let me know if there’s something in particular you’d like me to cover - I’ll see what I can rustle up when I get chance.
Stay safe and make some cool sounds! :)
I got a really cool shout-out from the awesome Damian Kastbauer on the Audiokinetic Twitch channel!
Damian checked out some of blog posts I made during my final year of university when I was working on an audio re-design for the Unity 3D Adventure Game as my final year honours project.
For this project, I muted all the original sounds and music running natively from the Unity audio engine, and designed and implemented new audio into the game using Wwise. As a method of logging my progress while working on the project, I wrote weekly blog posts about the challenges I would face trying to implement various audio features into the game, and how I eventually found solutions to said challenges…which usually involved a lot of tinkering in C# and breaking scripts!
Audiokinetic went live on Twitch. Catch up on their VOD now.
Thanks for reading my blog Damian!
