March 19-23, 2018
San Francisco CA
GDC was host once again for our two signature IASIG events, and loads of audio sessions that helped people learn more about their craft. Here’s a rundown of IASIG activities at GDC 2018: SPONSORS MIXER TOWN HALL Using Slack workspaces to communicate. This was a great idea that can be used as an alternative to the traditional email reflectors we currently use. Do you use Slack or something similar? Let us know! We’re interested in knowing if you think any of these tools are worth using for IASIG working group activity. Owen Peterson’s education resource inspired a lot of questions about execution and scope, and it looks like we may get some volunteers from the event as a result. If you’re interested in participating in this project, please let Owen know by emailing him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Normalization standards - While much has been written on this topic, the industry seems to change often enough that having a regularly-updated resource, perhaps even Owen’s project, could beneficial. There’s a plugin from iZotope for normalizing for radio, but people new to the industry have to hunt around for these things. Implementing a Reddit-style system where people can vote on content in Owen’s new IASIG resource would be helpful for people visiting the site by bringing popular answers to the forefront. Michael Sweet recommended establishing a naming convention or nomenclature for what we do and write an open standard that could be imported into FMOD or WWISE or others, that would allow people creating layered tracks or branching tracks, crossfades, transitions or whatever, to streamline and standardize the kinds of things we do in interactive music. This would take whatever FMOD is doing and what WWISE is doing, find any crossover points and standardize them. Michael has has a new prototyping music tool for interactive and adaptive audio built in Unity and he wants to get it out here and have IASIG help him grow and test it. If you’re interested in helping, please email Michael at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. It was recommended a white paper be drafted on the IASIG website about what Fabric, FMOD, WWISE, UNITY and others are, and what they do. WHAT’S NEXT Stay tuned and drop us a line to let us know of what you’d like to see solved. Best regards, Kurt Heiden
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