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112 - "One Billion Guns!" Sound Design for Video Game Weaponry with Gearbox Software

112 - "One Billion Guns!" Sound Design for Video Game Weaponry with Gearbox Software

FromDolby Creator Talks


112 - "One Billion Guns!" Sound Design for Video Game Weaponry with Gearbox Software

FromDolby Creator Talks

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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We conclude our special coverage of sound design for video games by interviewing the sound team at Gearbox Software, which famously created "over one billion guns" for its latest first-person shooter, Borderlands 3. So how exactly does a team design the sound for so many different guns? Turns out, it's actually kinda fun."The godsend was the fact that we have a good set of field recording gear internally anyway and... we live in Texas. So, there's lots of people with lots of guns and lots of places, lots of space. So outside of the formal gun shoots that we did, which was really only one — formal gun shoot — we did a whole lot of side shoots here, locally, just us. And some of that was experimentation. Some of that was filling holes. We were learning as we were going. Where we needed more content, where we needed different types of content, different perspectives, different tales. Those kinds of things. And we would go out and do those shoots."— Mark Petty, Audio Director, Gearbox SoftwareThanks again to Gearbox Software for joining us this week!Borderlands 3 is currently available on your favorite video game platforms.Please subscribe to Sound + Image Lab: The Dolby Institute Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.You can also check out the video for this episode.Learn more about the Dolby Institute and check out Dolby.com. Connect with Dolby on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. 
Released:
Jan 25, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Sound and image are incredibly powerful tools for storytelling. Join Dolby Institute director Glenn Kiser in conversation with the artists who are using image and sound technologies creatively in some of your favorite films, TV shows, video games, and songs.