Game Audio Playthrough

Designing the sound of the main character in Avatar – frontiers of Pandora

If you want to learn how designing the sound of a 3 meter tall Navi on an alien moon demands a different approach than designing the sounds of a human player character we’ve got you covered. With a focus on foley, senior sound designer Henriette Jenssen will show how the design process in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora went from design page to final product in game. The presentation will show how they collaborated with the external sound design vendor Formosa and the foley artists Sarah Monat and Robin Harland in order to create expressive foley movements and some very peculiar footstep materials. Lastly, they’ll go through the challenges they faced when recording the sound of the player’s movements in water, and how these were fixed with the help of some very experimental recording techniques under water. After this presentation, Sound Designer Jacob Buch Johannsen will take the stage and show you how he implemented the plant movements in the game. His talk is all about asset management, leaf rustles, and some very destructive recordings that took place in the Canadian forest.

Address: Niels Hemmingsens Gade 24, 1153 København, Danmark
Schedule:

• 18:00: Entrance with complimentary snacks and drinks
• 18:30: Presentation begins
• 19.30: Break
• 19.45: Q&A
• 20:30: Drinks & mingle
• 21:00: Thank you for tonight. Voluntary afterparty at Wessels Kro

🎮🎶 Game Audio Playthrough is coming to Aarhus on June 12th 🎶🎮

We’re excited to announce that the Game Audio Playthrough event series is now coming to Aarhus. So mark your calendars, and get ready for an evening of mingling with other game audio enthusiasts, along with a deep insight into game audio development.
The first game we’ll present is the upcoming horror/comedy game Escapen’t, an escape room-inspired video game made by Aarhus-based Kaffeklubben Games. The game will be presented by the two poor souls, Jonas Lauridsen and Sune Graves Hvidt, who seem to have been sent by the so-called “Game Master”. At least that’s what we can read in this strange letter we received from him. Read it yourself, and you might get a hint of what kind of evening we’re gonna have:

"Escapen’t is my magnum opus.
The perfect escape room.
It also has great acoustic treatment and definitely no voices in the walls.
In my place, I have sent two of my most disposable lackeys from ‘Kaffeklubben Games’ to share their thoughts about:

• how audio design helps game designers
• the paradoxical friendship between horror and comedy
• using atmosphere as your vision, rather than text on paper
• how to fix voice lines

During their showcase, they will demonstrate the game and use the audience as part of the game's final sound design. Whatever that means.
-- The Game Master, Kaffeklubben Games"

• What is Game Audio Playthrough? Game Audio Playthrough is an event series where audio departments behind a specific video game present the game and their contributions to it, often while playing the game simultaneously. It gives a unique insight into how games are developed and what game audio is.
• Who can attend? The event is free and open to all. You don’t need to know anything about game audio to participate.
• Refreshments To celebrate our first Game Audio Playthrough in Aarhus (and to please The Game Master) we’re offering pizza, drinks, and snacks to all participants.

Address:
The office of “Ideas Lab”, Filmbyen 19, 8000 Aarhus C

Schedule:
- 17:00: Entrance with complimentary snacks and drinks
- 17:30: Presentation begins
- 18.30: Break and pizza
- 19.00: Q&A
- 19:45: Drinks & mingle
- 21:00: Thank you for tonight