Oliver Getz: INTRODUCTION TO AUDIO IMPLEMENTATION

Being a talented composer or sound designer means little if nobody can hear your work. This is where FMOD comes in. FMOD allows you to design responsive audio with little to no programming experience. After a short presentation about my organization (GAiN), we will take a deep dive into the audio direction and planning for a game, discuss how middleware interacts with game engines, learn about implementation techniques, and break down an FMOD project for the indie game Sacred Gems. If you are new to audio implementation, this is where to start.

Oliver Getz is the owner of Nordic Scoring, an audio post production company, and a board member/founder of the labor union Game Audio in Norway (GAiN). As a youngling, Oliver started his music journey in rock and metal, before getting a diploma in jazz performance and finally a degree in music technology at Berklee College of Music. In later years, he has conducted a few ensembles, worked as a Unity game developer/designer, and written scores for a handful of indie games.

If you are attending the Introduction to Audio Implementation talk, it’s entirely possible (and recommended) to follow along to maximize your learning outcome. If you wish to do so, please bring a laptop and install the most recent versions of the following software:

• Unity Hub
  • Open Unity Hub and install the most recent version.
• FMOD Studio
• The FMOD Asset Package for Unity

You can download associated audio files here. Please note that we won’t be able to stop the talk to help you out, so if you fall behind we recommend that you close your laptop and follow the talk instead. Following along is not necessary to get something out of this talk.