Toward a New Sound for Games

I am the author of Chapter 9: Toward a New Sound for Games in the book Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, Edited by Zach Whalen, Laurie N. Taylor, and published by Vanderbilt University Press.

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"To advance the state of video game sound, there is a need for a theoretical framework of sound design for interactive media. While the application of sound to other forms of multimedia-such as film or television-has had years of scholarly theoretical assertions and empirical study, to date there is a surprising dearth of literature that concerns the use of sound in games, and though many empirical studies have been completed regarding the role of sound in film, very few have considered sound within the construct of an interactive environment such as a video game..."