The goal of this page is to provide links for as much information as possible about audio production, sound design and implementation for games. Some of the articles more focused on the art are taken from film/TV resources, as our disciplines have many similarities. You will notice a distinct lack of musical information. This is intentional. There are plenty of resources available for game composers, but we sound designers are left sorting through endless pages of data to find what we're looking for. Therefore, this site will focus on all aspects of audio EXCEPT music. General Resources Bruce A Miller's BAM Audio School FilmSound.org (lots of articles) GameSound.org (some articles) Interactive Audio Wiki SAE reference material Sound By Design (Electronic Musician) Sound Design For The Moving Image - Rob Bridgett WikiRecording The Basics - Good starting points on various topics Game Audio And Effects FAQ (some good basic info) Nuts And Bolts (Basics of recording, must read for newbies) (PDF) You Are Surrounded (Surround Sound Explained) Acoustic Design Acoustic treatments Bob Golds' Acoustics Page Bob Golds' Room Mode Calculator DIY bass traps Ethan Winer on acoustics John L Sayers' acoustics page Knightfly's Room Mode Calculator Room Mode Calculator Small, dead room Business A Sound Bid (GamaSutra) Getting a Job in Game Audio Getting Started in Game Audio Engines/Implementation Audio for Mobile Devices (GamaSutra) Audio Prototyping with Pure Data (GamaSutra) Breaking the 64 Spatialized Sources Barrier (GamaSutra) Creating an Interactive Audio Environment (GamaSutra) Introducing the Interactive XMF Audio File Format (GamaSutra) Field Recording 24bit Field Recording FAQ Field Recording by Rudy Trubitt Recording Underwater Salvaging Bad Audio (Millimeter) Foley Foley at Sea (Mix) Foley Recording (Mix) Sounds in the Key of Life (Electronic Musician) Sound Design Capturing Engine Sounds for Games (GamaSutra) Dave's Guide to Sound Effects Establishing an Aesthetic in Next Generation Sound Design (GamaSutra) Favorite Effects Tips From the Trenches (Electronic Musician) Finders Keepers (Electronic Musician) Frank Serafine: Turning Elephants Into Explosions Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mix) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Millimeter) Master And Commander (Mix) Obiwannabe Sound Library Construction (Electronic Musician) The Transom Review - Walter Murch (PDF File) Tricks and Techniques for Sound Effects Design (GamaSutra) Weapons Sound Effects Recording and Design for the Next Generation (GamaSutra) Surround Hollywood Sound: Surround (GamaSutra) Voiceover Be a Better Dialog Editor Family Guy Hollywood Sound: Voiceover (GamaSutra) Recording Dialog for the Digital Arts (Electronic Musician) Screen/Play: Documenting Voice Assets (GamaSutra) Seven Secrets of Voiceover Production (GamaSutra) Microphones Build a hydrophone (PDF) DIY Hydrophone Information Monitoring Calibrating a 2.x-5.1 Monitoring System (includes files) Game Specific BioShock - Ambient Noises Call of Duty 3 - Weapons Recording (Video) Dark Sector - Vegetable Massacre (Video - currently top left) Doom 3 - Ed Lima interview Doom 3 - Ed Lima interview 2 (some sound design chat, a little music) Elder Scrolls IV - Mark Lampert blog Everquest II - Heather Sowards Interview Forza Motorsport 2 - Car Recording for Forza 2 Ground Control II - Ola Standh interview Halo - Audio Production for Halo Halo - Sound Design interview w/ Marty Halo 2 - First-Person Pseudo Reality (Mix) Killzone - Joris de Man interview Mage Knight - Simon Amarasingham Interview Mercenaries 2 - Viktor Phoenix Documentary (Video) Scarface: The World Is Yours - Audio Postmortem Scarface: The World Is Yours - Randy Thom Interview Starcraft: Ghost - Julian Kwasneski interview Ubisoft - Studio Profile/interview (PDF) Forums Cinema Audio Society Ethan Winer's Acoustics Forums GameAudio Forum Game Audio Pro @ YahooGroups GearSlutz.com Forums NorthernSounds Game Audio Forum Nuendo Post Forums Sound Design @ YahooGroups StudioTips' Acoustics Forum Interviews (General) Frank Bry (Radio interview w/ MP3s) Joey Kuras Junichi Nakatsuru D. Chadd Portwine Gary Rydstrom (Mix) Game Audio Software AudioKinetic Wwise FMOD Microsoft DirectX SDK (includes XACT) Audio Software KVRAudio.com Noise The Freesound Project last updated 28 February, 2008