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David Graham’s Portfolio 

Showreels:

  

The Redesigns in this reel are chosen to demonstrate designs for a range of subjects from UI and Monsters to weather and vehicles. All from games I have played and felt the wish to attempt to resign. 

The Implementation reel demonstrates a range of projects from my time at university which utilise different implementation techniques. This does not however feature my honours project (see other notable projects). 


Recent Game Projects:

The Story of E. Rose / Lost Selves

 
For the Story of E. Rose I created sound effects requested by the developer,these ranged form error sounds created from EMF noise to water bottle air lock doors. In Lost Selves I worked on character foley and Door sounds.

  
These are both projects I was proud of at university. The Vale redesign aimed to increase immersion with sounds design. The Navigational Weather System was inspired by Ghost of Tsushima (2020) and aimed to recreate its navigational weather system but adding more emphasis on the audio directionality rather than visual aids.    


To learn more about each visit the respective blog post.

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The Story of E. Rose

 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

Train Sim World 5: ScotRail Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street Redesign

  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

Navigational Weather System

This project is my honours project, the culmination of my honours project literature research and time at Edinburgh Napier. Project Description: This project aims to alleviate the growing trend of over reliance on UI as the method for conveying information in games.  Inspirited greatly by the implementation of navigation in Ghost of Tsushima by Sucker Punch Production, 2020. Ghost of Tsushima game uses sound and animation in order to guide users to locations within the world. This is what I wish to build upon but remove the reliance on UI to guide the player. As while Ghost of Tsushima is not overly cluttered the majority of new open world game releases wish to convey so much information to the player the screen becomes cluttered.  Technical Description: The project is a Unity asset store project that has been integrated with Wwise. The weather system was created and then sound designed using the Wwise Soundseed air, woosh and grain plugins. This project allowed  me to le...