Game Audio

The Game Audio Strategy Guide is a comprehensive text designed to turn both novices and experienced audio designers into technical game audio pros. Featuring an extensive companion website with numerous practical tutorials and exercises, which allow the reader to gain hands-on experience creating audio assets for games.

Principles of Game Audio and Sound Design is a comprehensive introduction to the art of sound for games and interactive media using Unity. This accessible guide encompasses both the conceptual challenges of the artform as well as the technical and creative aspects, such as sound design, spatial audio, scripting, implementation and mixing.

Rob Bridgett is the Senior Manager of Sound for Playstation and is the leading author in game audio. He has six published books on game audio. “Leading with Sound” is his first publication from Focal Press. “Working with Sound” and “Sound Principles” follow this book and are also recommended.

The Sound Effects Bible is a complete guide to recording and editing sound effects. The book covers topics such as microphone selection, field recorders, the ABCs of digital audio, understanding Digital Audio Workstations, building your own Foley stage, designing your own editing studio, and more.