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Subject: Meet an Audio Designer with a LOT to say about his craft.

You're in for a treat this week.

Stephen Hodde is Breaking In, and - like his collegue David Henry - he is at no loss for words about his work, or how he learned to do it. This interview is chock full of multimedia and insight. Enjoy, as I did.

Special thanks to NMcKinley who requested what turned out to be this two-week series about Audio Design. They've been a real pleasure to conduct, and we love to satisfy your specific curiosities.

[Edited on 10.01.2012 11:31 AM PDT]

  • 10.01.2012 11:23 AM PDT

Bravo zulu!

  • 10.01.2012 11:26 AM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

I wonder what that junk will become

  • 10.01.2012 11:26 AM PDT

Posted by: DeeJ
You'r in for a treat this week.
I was here when it happened.

Jokes. Reading now though.

  • 10.01.2012 11:26 AM PDT

If I could pick any job in the world... this would be it. Awesome breaking-in. :)

  • 10.01.2012 11:29 AM PDT

Check out my Soundcloud account to hear some of my music.
Here's my twitter, in the off-chance you want that too.

Community Joe Interview: defnop552
Bye.

I've been asking Urk for ages to interview the Audio designers. I loved Stephen's Bioshock trailer. It was brilliant!

  • 10.01.2012 11:30 AM PDT
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Awesome that was pretty cool

  • 10.01.2012 11:36 AM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

that first video was quite violent.

  • 10.01.2012 11:39 AM PDT

This is a nice breaking in. A great read.

  • 10.01.2012 11:39 AM PDT

Junkyard environment confirmed for Bungie's next game!

:)

Nice Breaking In!

  • 10.01.2012 11:46 AM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

Cool.

Hey, I do Muay Thai, too!

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  • 10.01.2012 11:48 AM PDT

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

That was one of the better ones.
Though next time I demand more short witty answers!

  • 10.01.2012 11:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

CONFIRMED: In Bungie's next game, "Junkyard," you play a rogue trash collector who knows that an ounce of vengeance is worth a pound of experience.

Loved this interview! Great sound is one of the most underappreciated parts of a video game, and it's awesome to see the hard work and skill that these folks bring to the table.

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  • 10.01.2012 12:56 PM PDT
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Don't judge a book by its cover, unless it has bacon on the cover, then it is a good book.

-Me

The sound guys are definitely one of the most important parts of a game IMO.

Skyrim to me wouldn't be the same if I didn't here the foliage crackling beneath my feet. or the sound of me drawing back my bow, about to silence another target

  • 10.01.2012 1:00 PM PDT

"A good player wins a 1v1, a great player avoids one." - T00lB0X

Proof that even the staff doesn't use the News Forum.

  • 10.01.2012 1:36 PM PDT

Nice breaking in!

  • 10.01.2012 1:41 PM PDT

Non facete nobis calcitrare vestrvm perinaevm.

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You imply a level of control over Halo: Reach matchmaking that we no longer have. Or, in your vernacular, it isn't our shiznit anymore.


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Those were awesome trailers and I loved reading about his background. People's creativity can be expressed in so many forms.

  • 10.01.2012 2:06 PM PDT
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For Carnage, Apply Within.

I have returned from the Untamed Lands. MOAP is dead.

I just got into Magic through the XBLA game. Although it's something I wouldn't mind playing in person, I hear from folks it's crazy expensive. Cards rotate and get banned frequently.

Posted by: WestCoastRonin
Junkyard environment confirmed for Bungie's next game!

:)

Nice Breaking In!

No man, Marathon displays downstairs? Marathon reboot confirmed!

  • 10.01.2012 2:39 PM PDT

GOAT

Ah this guy has got one of my dream jobs. I'd love to be an audio designer/sound engineer from video games or movies.

  • 10.01.2012 2:49 PM PDT

ooga booga boooh

Man, this is one hell of an interview. This guy sounds like he really loves his job. I want to one day love my job as much as he does. Great read, and awesome that there was an incorporation of images and video.

Deej, more of that if you can in the future!

  • 10.01.2012 2:56 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

That was another good read.
It's nice to see the story behind all these people.

  • 10.01.2012 3:15 PM PDT

The Song Of Nephilim

Xenoblade <3

All these are so cool.

  • 10.01.2012 4:07 PM PDT

He went to NYU! I don't go too school too far from there :)

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  • 10.01.2012 4:08 PM PDT
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I came for Halo, but I heard the Tru7h, fought thru Carnage, and stayed for Bungie.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.--Teddy Roosevelt

That sound is still humming inside of me.

  • 10.02.2012 7:15 PM PDT

Oh hey, i've seen this guy before! Anyway another great interview DeeJ.

  • 10.03.2012 10:11 AM PDT

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