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Join Game Audio Boston and Audiokinetic for an afternoon of hanging out and interactive audio deep diving!

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Ambience is such a crucial part of what makes a Ghost game a Ghost game: it provides a time machine for the player, whisking them back to a believable version o

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As the year comes to a close and with winter break just around the corner, I'm taking some time to reflect on what has been a year full of new experiences, adventures, and just a lot of lucky circumstances. When I decided to abandon my quest to establish a musical career and pursue sound design for games in late 2022, I could not have foreseen where I would be just three years later.

It's been a while now since I've been actively pursuing music, a journey over 20 years with many ups and downs. In fact, in the years before realizing I wanted to pursue game audio, I spent a lot of time making beats and instrumental tracks somewhere between hip hop, electronica, and heavily Gorillaz-slanted alternative pop (or something like that). Since I made a lot of tracks, jams, beats, and musical experiments over the years that I'm very fond of but have sat unreleased, I figured it was time to put them all on one big ol' beat tape.

About three weeks ago, I wrapped up my first ever project involving sound design for a stage performance. The play Ada by playwright Aeneas Sagar Hemphill was produced with The Empty Space Theater at BabsonArts under the direction of Naomi Hopkins, with professional designers working on light, sound, stage, costumes, and props - and a student cast and crew bringing it to life onstage.

For our last meetup of 2025 we're chatting with sound designer, educator and public speaker extraordinaire Akash Thakkar! Known for titles like Hyper Light Drifter, Outer W

As the year draws to a close, everyone's favorite sound design podcast, Tonebenders, once again asked for listeners to submit stories from their own field recording adventures. This episode features contributions from Nathan Moody, Simon Panayi, Tim Kahn, Andrew Dawson, JååN Verschoren, David Thomas, Philipp Feit,  Diego Lukumy, Lamar Samuels, and yours truly. I'm extremely excited that my story on accidentally recording hyenas in Zimbabwe made it into this episode and I really hope you'll enjoy listening to it!

It's finally here! In this A Sound Effect article, Brad Meyer, Josh Lord, and Chris Walasek share a deep-dive behind the scenes of Ghost of Yōtei's soundscape. In this in-depth article, they explore everything from our incredible animation tagging system that made implementing Foley for every character an absolute dream, to how the game was mixed to ensure that critical audio cues can always be perceived in turbulent combat encounters.