JPARKERMEDIA

...... My team and I were ultimately happy with our end result.  We did a lot of learning along the way when it came down to implementation. (What went wrong?)  We kept getting snagged on one particular issue, which basically was a result of having a play action and a stop action for the same audio asset in one event.  This mistake was done in the first place in attempt to keep identical ambience files from playing back on top of each other. This was also tied to an issue with two very similarly named events happening at almost the same time, both of them having the ambience assets assigned to them.  Fixing that gave us time to analyze the prototype of our mix and tweak a few settings. This was an opportunity to focus on more of the creative detail surrounding the over-arching aesthetic of our mix balance.  We spent some time re-working our background ambiences, paying close attention to the attenuation between one ambience and another. We lowered our background ambiences to where our footsteps were much more present.  wWise’s convolution reverb was available but I didn’t have any readily available impulse responses so we used the wWise reverb. We created an audio bus dedicated to adding a little reverb to the boy’s movements to emphasize the space he’s in but also bring attention to how alone he is in the woods. This contrast in volume gave our team an opportunity to use a wide dynamic range to emphasize the sound of player deaths.  I was specifically responsible for the falling and impaling death assets and I had fun making those sounds.  I made sure to exaggerate the impact of the falling death and make the impaling death sounds gutsy with a side of sharp metallic! ......