Engines of Creation: Informative Vs Instructional Sound
summary
Distills when sound must instruct versus merely inform, with concrete studio practices and hard limits. Uses a three-mic footstep rig (salted pallet, buckled boots) to localize players, ties weapon tails to elevation in Nine to Five, and warns of a runtime 156 voice limit that forces baking: original multi‑element gunshots collapse to a baked gunshot to five voices. Shows diegetic vs non‑diegetic routing, priority/conductor systems, and real multiplayer pitfalls like birds revealing all players.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:32Instructional vs informative sounds
- 8:20Diegetic vs non-diegetic sound
- 12:19Sound in game narrative
- 17:07Examples in games
- 22:06Why sound design matters
- 26:59Sound design problems and fixes
- 31:57Creative audio design
- 34:24Red Hill Games hiring
- 36:31Q&A
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