-
Ben Long commented on the blog post Mobile Game Audio 101: A Unique Reference to Crafting Mobile Sound; CDM E-book Discount 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Peter, thanks! All criticism is welcomed and I really want to expand this. The trick was keeping it “101″ and not getting too terribly technical. The next one will be “901″ and there will be no middle ground – which means going right into middleware and possibly audio programming with ‘score this game’ examples. I [...]
-
Ben Long commented on the blog post Creating in 2011: A Composers’ View of Mobile Game Audio, From Trends to Slot Machine Sound Design 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Hi Kim, it’s true :) They really asked us to keep all songs in the key of C for the duration of the gig….after playing some twice, we did quite a bit of improvising. Some songs are just wrong for C and transposing them on the fly was tough
-
Ben Long commented on the blog post Creating in 2011: A Composers’ View of Mobile Game Audio, From Trends to Slot Machine Sound Design 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Thanks a ton for posting that, Charlie! What a creative/technical masterpiece… He was toggling through the menus the whole time, with ninja-like quickness – It certainly added a whole ‘nother layer of genius since that interface is rather clunky. Sometimes limitations bring out our best work
-
Ben Long commented on the blog post Creating in 2011: A Composers’ View of Mobile Game Audio, From Trends to Slot Machine Sound Design 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Yes, C for conspiracy! It seems that the bulk of players go without headphones, but I can imagine on a bus you really need them. The sad thing is that alot of game reviews are youtubed with a video cam just capturing the audio/video of the device laying on a table. However, some are using [...]
-
Ben Long wrote a new blog post: Creating in 2011: A Composers’ View of Mobile Game Audio, From Trends to Slot Machine Sound Design 1 year, 4 months ago · View
Pay attention to those Angry Birds. They could be a sign of upcoming gigs, composers and sound designers. Photo ( CC-BY) Johan Larsson .Composer/sound designer Ben Long has a resume of work on dozens of games. Here on CDM, he shares the topic on which he recently addressed GDC China: mobile. If mobile game audio is going to rise [...]
-
Ben Long wrote a new blog post: Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone 2 years, 9 months ago · View
Here’s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. It’s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of choice. In this case, we turn to Kim Cascone, an experienced and gifted musician and composer with an impressive resume of releases and [...]