Podcasts
Game Audio Podcasts
Brian Schmidt: Pinball Wizard
A 20-year industry veteran, Brian has composed music for over 120 arcade and console games including John Madden Football, NARC, Crue Ball and the Star Wars Trilogy. He worked at Microsoft for many years where he was the primary architect of XACT and helped design the XBOX 360 audio system. We caught up with him at Project Bar-BQ (hence the cricket noises...) where we talked about pinball sound and early game audio composition.
Download part 1 (MP3 mono, 20 minutes, 17 MB) and part 2 (MP3 mono, 12 minutes, 10MB).
Brian's website: http://brianschmidtstudios.com
Some of Brian's music can be found on Project 2612.org
History of Game Sound: 8-Bit
History of Game Sound part 1: Early arcades (MP3 stereo, 15 minutes, 14 MB) References: AY-3-891x series specs | TMS5220 specs Websites referenced: Datamath | Coin-Op arcades Classic Video Game Sounds Game sound files as separate files (MP3) Asteroids | BurgerTime | Cavelon | Computer Space | DigDug | DonkeyKong | Gyruss | Indiana Jones | Pac-Man | Rally X | Space Invaders
History of Game Sound part 2a: Early consoles (MP3 stereo, 14 minutes, 13 MB) Atari files (zip), Coleco files (zip), Intellivision files (zip) History of Game Sound part 2b: Early consoles: Nintendo (MP3 stereo, 15 minutes, 15 MB) Nintendo files (zip).
History of Game Sound part 3: Home PCs (MP3 stereo,20 minutes, 21MB) Separate sound files (zip). A few links: Quest studios | SID C64 music | Lemon 64 | Mockingboard Ultima music
GamesSound.com interviews voice actor D.B. Cooper. D.B. is an industry veteran, and has worked as voice casting consultant at Electronic Arts and Midway Games, in addition to doing countless video game voices!
We talk about why game dialogue has been crappy in the past, where it's going, and what game developers can do about it! Download the Podcast (MP3 Mono, 40 minutes, 16 MB)
http://www.db-cooper.com/
Websites mentioned in the interview:
http://www.vo-bb.com/
http://www.audioatrocities.com/
