Austin GDC - SoundWars: The Physics Unleashed

In September I'll be headed down to the Austin Game Developers Conference to give a presentation with David Collins (LucasArts) on the Physics sounds and systems implemented in StarWars: The Force Unleashed.

Thankfully very early on in the development of the project, the different physics Middleware providers were decided on. This distributed the task of making them all play nicely together over the full course of the project. There was alot of solid iteration time on the audio side that allowed us the ability to maximize the sound content, resources, and implementation used to bring the sound of destruction a sense of scale and reality. It was a great challenge with a tremendous amount of big audio brains crunching on the solutions that led us to the final product.

Drop me a line if you're headed down that way!
September's not so far away.

Conan - Game Project Announced

It's recently been announced that the title i've been working on since making the jump to California will be a new game from the CONAN universe. I'll feed some more details as they become available, but it's exciting to have it out in the open. I'm sitting in a pleasant position suggesting audio tech, plugging in sfx/music content, and making the game sound as good as possible. Hopefully i'll be able to share some of the cooler implementation aspects and specialized audio systems as time goes by.

I'm headed off to GDC again this year and look forward to hearing all the geeks get their game on. If you're on the fence about going, feel free to read my wrap-up from last year.

If you're on your way, i'll see you there!

GDC 2006 - The Dream

I had a dream, and so it begins here in San Jose California at the 2006 Game Developers Conference.

GDC 2006 Photo's

GDC 2006 Wrap up

UPDATE: Conferance was a blast!
Those of you that I met, I wish you the best!
Until Next year!