Curriculum

CURRICULUM OVERVIEW

Our sound design for games course aims to get you up and running in the industry, following industry-specific game audio specifications. As such, we’ll be starting off with an overview of the industry, the processes and the game audio field today, before moving into more technical fields, like Unity 3D – an industry standard game engine – and Audiokinetic’s Wwise, an industry standard middleware solution.

Once you’ve developed those concepts, you’ll be ready to dive into ‘Project Adventure’, a fully featured game, specifically built with implementation for complex audio behaviour in mind, that utilizes industry standard concepts and tools to develop engaging audio content. In this game, you will be designing sound, interactions, voiceovers, and music to make the experience exciting and engaging for players. You’ll have the freedom to design sound just the way you like it while taking mentorship from our industry trained instructors on topics like foley, ambiances, interactive music, and real-time dialogue mixing. Our course structure aims to get you up to speed, and understanding a wide array of concepts on a practical level used in the industry every day.

What you will learn

Over the 8 evening classes you will:

• Gain a working knowledge of the game audio production pipeline
• Understand the role of the sound designer and audio programmer
• Conceptualize audio concepts and requirements for projects in a team setting
• Acquire a technical knowledge of Audiokinetic’s Wwise middleware package
• Correctly record sound effects and voice-overs
• Develop a working understanding of the basics of Unity 3D
• Properly integrate audio assets between both Unity3D and Wwise to deliver a working audio integration
• Accurately convey ideas pertaining to sound with other creative media professionals
• Develop sound design briefs and descriptions

WEEKLY BREAKDOWN

Week 1: Introduction to Game Audio

• Overview of the Course
• The Field Today
• Production processes

Week 2: Asset Lists and Management

• Jobs in Games for Audio
• Asset Lists
• Unity 3D
• Wwise Introduction
  

Week 3: Wwise – Ambience, Music and Loops

• Importing Ambiences
• Importing Music
• Looping Files
• Using the blend containers
• Event Actions

Week 4: Wwise – Movement and Attenuation

• Sound Emitters and Attenuation
• Foley Principles
• Footsteps and Movements
• Footstep Types

Week 5: Wwise – Weapons, impact and sound design

• Sound Design Principles
• Sound Design Session
• Weapons
• Impacts

Week 6: Wwise – Music and Sync

• Music
• Sync
• Cue Points
• Looping
• Interactive Music

Week 7: Wwise – RTPC’s and Real-Time effects

• RTPC’s
• Real Time Effects
• Menu Sounds and Pausing
• Integration

Week 8: Wwise – Mixing and Delivery

• Mixing Principles
• Mixing Session
• Delivery of a finished product