Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio : For Composers, Sound Designers, Musicians, and Game Developers - Aaron Marks

Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio

For Composers, Sound Designers, Musicians, and Game Developers

By: Aaron Marks

Hardcover | 7 April 2017 | Edition Number 3

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $263.00

$228.75

13%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $57.19 with

 or 

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

Whether trying to land that first big gig or working to perfect the necessary skills to fill a game world with sound, Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio 3rd edition will teach the reader everything they need to know about the audio side of the multi-million dollar video game industry.

This book builds upon the success of the second edition with even more expert advice from masters in the field and notes current changes within the growing video game industry. The tools of the trade excerpts will showcase what professionals, like Marty O'Donnell, Richard Jacques and Tom Salta, use to create their work and to help newcomers in the field prepare their own sound studios.

Sample contracts are reviewed within the text as well as helpful advice about contractual terms and negotiable points. These sample contracts can also be found as a downloadable zip for the reader's convenience. Aaron Marks also explores how to set your financial terms and network efficiently along with examples of how projects can go completely awry and achieving the best results in often complicated situations.

Aaron Marks' Complete Guide to Game Audio

serves as the ultimate survival guide to navigating an audio career in the video game industry.

 

Key Features

  • New, full color edition with a complete update of information.
  • Added and expanded coverage of field recording for games, creating voiceovers, adaptive and interactive audio and other cutting edge sound creation and implementation techniques used within games.
  • Update/Replacement of interviews. Include interviews/features on international game audio professionals New and expanded interview features from game composers and sound designers of every experience level such as Keith Arem, Bradley Meyer, Christopher Tin and Rodney Gates including many international professionals like Pasi Pitkanen, Henning Nugel and Christos Panayides.
  • Expanded and updated game console coverage of the Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4.
  • Includes new scripting and middleware concepts and techniques and review of powerful tools such as FMOD and Wwise.
  • More in Music

    Rumours of My Demise : A Memoir - Evan Dando

    RRP $34.99

    $28.75

    18%
    OFF
    The Voice Inside : The Illustrated Edition - John Farnham

    RRP $65.00

    $48.99

    25%
    OFF
    Star of the Show : My Life on Stage - Dolly Parton

    RRP $85.00

    $59.95

    29%
    OFF
    Wicked : The Complete Screenplay - Insight Editions

    RRP $49.99

    $37.75

    24%
    OFF
    Only God Can Judge Me : The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur - Jeff Pearlman
    Wicked Deluxe Stationery Set : Wicked - Insight Editions

    RRP $75.00

    $55.75

    26%
    OFF
    Hal Leonard Guitar Method: Book 1 (Second Edition) - Will Schmid
    My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A - Nancy Faber

    RRP $22.95

    $18.75

    18%
    OFF
    Surrender : Bono Autobiography: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
    My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book B

    RRP $22.95

    $18.99

    17%
    OFF
    Piano Adventures All-In-Two Primer Lesson/Theory : Lesson & Theory - Anglicised Edition
    Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

    Paperback

    RRP $26.99

    $22.99

    15%
    OFF
    Heavier Than Heaven : The Biography of Kurt Cobain - Charles R. Cross
    The Storyteller : Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl

    RRP $24.99

    $21.75

    13%
    OFF
    Sing Backwards and Weep : The Sunday Times Bestseller - Mark Lanegan
    Mixtapes and MTV : Triumphs and Tragedies in 1980s Music - Tony Wellington
    Night People : How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City - Mark Ronson
    Taylor Swift : Unofficial Search-and-Find Biographies - Gus Morais