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Managing Your Game Audio Budget: Essential Guidelines
Working in game audio can be incredibly fun - from jamming on guitars around a campfire to experimenting with cutting-edge sound tools like Kyma and Korg Kaoss Pad. However, behind the scenes, there’s a growing challenge: managing tight budgets. Without a solid understanding of how to estimate and control audio costs, game developers risk expensive overruns that can derail their projects.


The State Of Game Audio
Game audio today plays a crucial and expansive role in delivering immersive player experiences. Despite often coming late in the production process, audio is not merely an afterthought—it’s a vital layer that shapes gameplay, emotion, and immersion. Understanding the evolving landscape of game audio and its demands is essential for producers, developers, and audio professionals alike.


The Neuropsychology of Engagement: An Audio Perspective
In today’s saturated digital landscape, capturing and maintaining user engagement is more critical - and more challenging - than ever....


Rethinking Project Design in Game Audio and Development
In creative technology, especially within game audio and interactive media, there's a pervasive myth: that the more complex something...


The Hidden Cost of Revenue Share Deals
Let me preface this with the following: This does not aim to cast those who use revenue share deals as evil - it simply aims to frame the...


The Game Industry and Its Cycles: Is There Any Hope?
I’ve been working in the game industry for a long time now, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that this business is full of ups...


Smaller and More Focused Teams Make Better Games
After decades in game development, I’ve seen trends come and go - but it’s become clear to me that small, focused teams build incredible...


Music Affects Retention and Spending in Mobile Slots
In the competitive mobile slot gaming market, player retention and spending are the primary drivers of success. While visuals and...


AI In Sound Design: We're Not There Yet
AI is a useful creative tool.. except when it isn’t. Everyone is talking about AI right now, and of course everyone is trying to sell you...


The Science Of Casino Game Music (3 Things You Must Know)
If you develop social, or land-based casino gaming products, you've probably used music in your games - to create ambience and reward...
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