Welcome To Game Audio Institute!
Supplement your game audio skillset with the GAI Professional Development Program – a comprehensive, personalized learning experience designed to elevate your skills and career readiness. Learn at your own pace with our classroom tested courses and receive expert feedback and insights from accomplished industry professionals.
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GET STARTED WITH OUR FREE BREAKOUT! GAME LESSON
What better way to learn about game audio than inside a game?
Our Game Lessons are fully-playable games carefully designed to give you the tools you’ll need to conquer your game audio goals.
Breakout! – Unity Audio
Learn the fundamentals of the Unity audio engine with the Breakout! Game Lesson – from sound design to music and audio integration – and create your own fully sound-enabled game experience.
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The Theory And Practice Of Writing Music For Games
The nature of game music charges the modern-day composer with understanding a whole host of aesthetic and technical principles unique to the medium. Based on years of working in the field, as well as teaching the subject at colleges and universities, The Theory and Practice of Writing Music for Games is an invaluable resource for those looking for a classroom tested, directed course of study.
Each chapter builds on the next and guides the reader step by step through the essentials. Along with all the theory, a multitude of clearly defined hands-on projects and exercises are included, designed to prepare the reader to go out into the field with a complete understanding of the art and craft of music composition for games and visual media.
The Essential Guide to Game Audio:
The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games
The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games is a first of its kind textbook and must-have reference guide for everything you ever wanted to know about sound for games.
This book provides a basic overview of game audio, how it has developed over time, and how you can make a career in this industry. Each chapter gives you the background and context you will need to understand the unique workflow associated with interactive media.
The practical, easy to understand interactive examples provide hands-on experience applying the concepts in real world situations.
“I have known Steve for over ten years; his leadership and experience in game audio makes him the perfect person to educate the next generation of game audio professionals.”
“I had the opportunity of attending Steve Horowitz and Scott Looney’s Game Audio Workshop. The pace of the course was perfectly matched for everyone’s learning abilities and covered everything I wanted to know about video game sound!“
