"Leonard peels back the curtain of game audio design and reveals his creative process. For anyone curious as to what creative decisions lead to the bloops, bleeps, and ambient soundscapes of video games, this is essential listening. Today, Leonard begins by picking apart his design process at a cellular level. Literally!" -AT, Multimedia Editor

Originally appeared on SoundingOut! blog: https://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/05/29/12904/

Released by Touch Press Inc on iTunes for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sim-cell-touch-press-games/id1177713417?mt=8

Additional resources:

“The Generative Music and Procedural Sound Design of Sim Cell” – School of Video Game Audio: http://youtu.be/0xr4aL1C24E
Pure Data – download extended from Puredata.info for all platforms: http://puredata.info/
Download 10 free patches demonstrating the sound effects in Sim Cell from my site at http://VideoGameAudio.com
Miller Puckette’s book “The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music” – free 300+ page book using Pure Data: http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques.htm
“Designing Sound” by Andy Farnell has great patches in it from fires to guns to birds – great for game audio: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-sound https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjcpKeq2L3UAhUBwmMKHSDsAzoQFggnMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspress.co.uk%2Fds%2Fpdf%2Fpd_intro.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEfxC4m2qHTRk0qKJ2fzkNUdMgJTw&sig2=CiM-FcNQEi-uTNMGLWvtEA
Download student patches from previous times I’ve taught at Emily Carr University: http://videogameaudio.com/main.htm#patches

Sounding Out! Podcast #29: Game Audio Notes I: Growing Sounds for Sim Cell

School of Video Game Audio: http://SoVGA.com (six sign-ups a year!)
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Students learn the process of creating and implementing audio for a video game and illustrative examples of gameplay are edited together to create a short demo reel. The quality of the sound design, music, speech, process, implementation and resulting demo reel will be evaluated by the school's principal instructor, Leonard Paul (MSc Game Audio) who has over 30 years of experience in the industry. All of our courses run on Windows and Mac.

http://School.VideoGameAudio.com

Sounding Out! Podcast #29: Game Audio Notes I: Growing Sounds for Sim Cell

School of Video Game Audio (SoVGA)