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Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate Interview with Audio Director, Lydia Andrew

by Sam Hughes - 27/02/201627/06/2016 1788

Sam Hughes speaks to Audio Director, Lydia Andrew about her career so far and her work on Assassin's Creed: Syndicate. Lydia is an Audio Director who has worked in game audio for 14 years and in the entertainment industry for nearly 20. She started her games career with Electronic Arts in the

Interview with Ori and the Blind Forest Audio Director, Andrew Lackey

by Sam Hughes - 20/02/201627/06/2016 0530

Earlier this year, Sam Hughes caught up with Sound Designer, Andrew Lackey, about his work on Ori and the Blind Forest. They also discuss his previous work on amazing titles such as The Matrix Trilogy as well as the recent release, The Witness and more! Andrew is an award winning sound designer and

Fallout 4 Game Audio Review

by Sam Hughes - 09/02/201624/04/2016 0694

Review by Katie Tarrant Edited by Sam Hughes Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Composer: Inon Zur Sound Designer: Mark Lampert Reviewed on: Xbox One Fallout is undeniably a globally adored franchise. Blossoming from pixelated birds-eye graphics in to environments rich with vast picturesque landscapes, Bethesda have fought hard to prove that taking over the franchise after Fallout 2 was

Interview with Leonard J Paul (School of Video Game Audio)

by Alyx Jones - 03/02/201627/06/2016 0784

Alyx Jones chats with Leonard Paul, after a busy year, about how the School of Video Game Audio is going as well as his current work on the follow-up to Retro City Rampage, Shakedown Hawaii. Leonard is well known for his work on titles such as EA’s NBA Jam, NHL 11,

Sam’s PhD Blog #4 – Global GameJam 2016

by Sam Hughes - 01/02/201624/04/2016 0319

Sam Hughes recounts his personal experience of his first game jam, in this case the Global Game Jam. As this is a personal blog section all opinions are of Sam Hughes and Sam Hughes only, not of The Sound Architect. Prologue It's been a while since I wrote for this blog, so

Interview with Rise of the Tomb Raider Audio Director, Jack Grillo

by Sam Hughes - 19/12/201527/06/2016 0612

Sam Hughes speaks to Audio Director, Jack Grillo about the epic adventure release Rise of the Tomb Raider! Jack has been working as a Sound Designer for the past 20 years, with experience in film, television, commercials, and video games. Early in his video game career, Jack worked as Audio Lead

1 Day Left To Enter 2016’s UK Music+Sound Awards!

by Sam Hughes - 16/12/201516/12/2015 0296

Final Deadline: Midnight, Friday 18th December With 2016’s Music+Sound Awards final deadline looming, Advertising, Film (features & shorts) and Television (programming & branding) professionals are invited to submit their work for consideration. Open to anyone involved, in any capacity, in a project made between 6th December 2014 - 4th December 2015, where

Pro Sound Effects Introduce Freelancer Program with Open Enrollment Through December

by Sam Hughes - 08/12/201507/12/2015 0346

Pro Sound Effects have announced a new Freelancer Program! PSE’s Freelancer Program gives you year-round savings of up to 60% off cutting edge sound effects libraries (such as The Hybrid Library @ $1500, Expansions) and software (iZotope’s RX5, Iris, Soundminer and more). Open enrollment ends December 31st - this means anyone can apply with no

PS+ Game of the Month: Dragon Fin Soup

by Alyx Jones - 21/11/201524/04/2016 0485

Review by Alyx Jones Edited by Sam Hughes Developer: Grimm Bros Composer: Jade Leamcharaskul Sound Design: Randis Albion Reviewed on: Playstation 4 Dragon Fin Soup is a turn based RPG Game that takes inspiration from fairy tales such as Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood but doesn't retell the stories. It is the first game from indie studio Grimm Bros

Sam’s PhD Blog #3

by Sam Hughes - 15/11/201524/04/2016 0306

Another 2 week course finished for the IGGI PhD! This time was a programming assignment where we made our own game in a few days. Being from an audio background it was quite daunting learning C# with Unity, but I have to admit it was very satisfying making my very basic