David Graham Sound Design

  This redesign is based upon the ScotRail eXpress: Edinburgh to Glasgow TSW5 DLC created by Rivet Games. With this project I aimed to gain a better understanding of the requirements of train recording. This was to attempt to gain some insight to the methods that are used to simulate the sound of the train in the game.  I went out and recorded two lengths of the route over the course of a day, taking time in each station to search for sounds on the outside of the train only audible when idle or when departing.  These were then edited to fit a pre-created video of gameplay. It was an interesting experience especially when trying to record clean audio on a commuter service! Software Used: Reaper Final Cut  OBS

For this project I again collaborated with Distilled Productions Limited. In this project I dealt with character foley and worldalising created sounds by designing reverbs for the game locations. I also created door creaking and lock sounds.  These elements were created by selecting different footwear to denote different characters and recording these on the surfaces such as pavement and wooden floor. These were then edited in Reaper to help distinguish the characters by adding pitch shifts to some characters.  These elements then all had two reverbs created for them depending on the kind of room the player was in. Play the game: https://distilledproductions.itch.io/lost-selves

 This is a game project I worked on for Distilled Productions.  For this project I created audio assets for the game that the game designer could not create themself. These ranged from digital static sounds to notify players of errors to air lock venting sounds.  To achieve these, I recorded sounds and mixed them with EMF recordings and contact microphone recordings to create all the sounds I provided. I then edited these in Reaper to add the post processing the sounds needed to convey the size of the players locations. Play the game: https://distilledproductions.itch.io/the-story-of-e-rose

This was my 3rd year attending the Global Game Jam. This year instead of working with implementation tools like Wwise. I focused on creating SFX and Music for games. As with previous years, I focused on one teams game in particular but helped out where ever possible with others. I also challenged myself to only use personally recorded sounds that I could create during the jam. The main focus of my efforts this year was the game The Last Laugh by team Funny Fighting. This was a 2D smash-like game.  https://cyps.itch.io/the-last-laugh For this I produced all audio assets for UI, Character Foley/ONOs, Combat and Music. The initial idea was to have two characters to battle however only one was implemented by the end of the jam and unfortunately this meant a lot of the audio assets were also unimplemented.  The Clown character was distinguishable via its squeaky feet and high pitched exertions. The Jester character was distinguishable by its bells on its shoes and lower pitched exe...

This project was created in reaper and includes linear designs. This features gameplay/cutscenes from The medium (2021) , Ghostwise: Tokyo (2022), Returnal (2021), A Plague Tale: requiem (2022) & Final Fantasy XVI (2023). Sounds were sourced from: Freesound (CC0) Https://www.zapsplat.com (Standard License) Krotos Free Audio packs My own recordings and synthesis.  Dialogue was provided by: Lucas Crabb Lucy Middleton Oran Talbot The Project video was created entirely from my own gameplay/cutscene recordings from PC (Games from Xbox Game Pass) and PS5. These were then edited together in Final Cut Pro.  This video was then exported for edit against in DAW Reaper. Once designs were complete these were exported back for a final video reedit within Final Cut Pro. This was then uploaded to YouTube as a host site.