TECHNICAL SOUND DESIGN

I've been messing around with JUCE and spectral processing for nearly a year now, and thanks to some great feedback from Paul Renard and Arnaud Noble, I'm happy to share a snippet of what KusaMorph can do. It's basically a mix of Zynaptiq Morph and Kilohearts Snap Heap.

This is an Unreal plugin that automatically generates footstep animation notifies. It already works pretty well, but there’s still room to improve it by training on a broader set of animations. There are plenty of free Marketplace assets that could help with that, as long as they get tagged first. For now, this version does what I need it to do, but it could easily grow into something much more robust. Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BDJ-BH1WTr-4kV2y6Yqe0s_-YutEhQ0W/view?usp=drivesdk

Happy to share the first iteration of a modular weapon system I’m building in Unreal Engine and Wwise, along with what is starting to look like the early prototype of my game. Sound design is very much work-in-progress, but the system already lets weapon parameters drive multiple sound layers. I initially had a classic 3-slot equipment system (primary, secondary, melee) with an interactable workbench. After prototyping, I moved to this format shown in the video, which fits the pace and style of the game much better.

Happy to share the very first iteration of a dynamic acoustic system, involving custom Wwise DSP. I was getting a bit tired of using RoomVerb in my projects and wanted to own my acoustics solution. I’m not entirely satisfied with the current results yet, but since I’m building both the system and the DSP, it’s up to me to make it better and I will. I played Neon White for the first time last year, and I think this project will lean toward that type of game. More on that next week. Overwatch talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDOgn2WXLs The Division 2 talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN56EauPhPQ&t=457s

This is a technical overview of my Run from the Light game. I wish I could freeze time and spend a few more months working on this project. There’s a lot that isn’t shown in the videos, like player detection, NPC behavior and the courage system, the stats component, the HP indicator, and the early foundations of a boss battle. I think I’ll come back to it one day. But for now, it’s time to move on to new things.

I once made a game prototype named Run from the Light. I'm happy to share gameplay from the second iteration of the concept 🙂 🎬 " Light is worshipped as divine, but It is not salvation. The weak, the sick, the unwanted… all cast into the flame to keep it burning. You were one of them. "

It was a lot of fun, and I learned quite a bit about Wwise plugins, Python tooling, and the JUCE framework through this project. It’s a tool that receives audio data from Wwise to either record it or reroute it into a DAW.

Reading Alex Riviere's book, I was reminded of a very interesting quote by Walter Murch. It gave me the idea of creating a crowd detection system. In this video, I'm using it for footsteps sound management.

Github repository : https://github.com/TFKusa/kusa_reascripts/raw/master/index.xml Documentation : https://github.com/TFKusa/kusa_reascripts/blob/master/Documentation/WWHISPER%20-%20DOCUMENTATION.md Forum thread : https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=2745640#post2745640 Portfolio : https://thomashugofritz.wixsite.com/website Music by Lee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6x7u7hJVUs