Audio Sound Design

Technical Sound Demo Reel: DIALOGUE IMPLEMENTATION AND TOOLS

DIALOGUE IMPLEMENTATION AND TOOLS

This video features three approaches for implementing dialogue with wwise in Unreal Engine. The topics include Generating dialogue project templates in wwise via waapi scripting, implementing dialogue via wwise external audio source, and implementing dialogue for voice accessibility.

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Unreal Wwise demO Reel

Archer Vs drones

Unreal, Wwise

Game Sound Design Demo Reel

Vehicle Engines in Wwise

My Game: Motor Warp

Technical Demo

This video features my process creating the audio for the game Motor Warp, which I made for the OnceAMonth Game Jam. In the video you will find my approach to procedural audio for the hover motorcycle via Metasounds in Unreal.

Gameplay Demo

This video is a short Audio demo of Motor Warp

If you are interested in playing the game, it is available for PC at no cost at: felipe-sound.itch.io

About

Thank you for stoping by,

my name is Felipe Gomez. I am a technical audio designer with experience programming and designing audio for various games including Warp Race, Agent Stealth, Ancient Hacker, and the antigravity racing game Vigilante Racer (early access on Steam) with developer Dan Violet Sagmiller.

I am passionate about technical audio design and enjoy solving problems, trying new implementation ideas, and building game audio systems. When working on audio design I particularly enjoy crafting generative audio via synthesis.

Education
I graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Master’s degree in music composition.

Video Game Releases

I love working on video games and in my spare time I have designed, coded, and released three games.

Feel free to try them out!

Motor Warp (Once a Month Jam, 2024, PC)

Agent Stealth (Games for Blind Gamers Jam, 2023, MAC)

Ancient Hacker (2022, MAC)

Main skills

Technical Sound Design, Wwise, Fmod, Unreal, Unity, C++, C#, blueprints, Metasounds, Reaper

Additional Skills

Python, Java Script, Raylib, Pure Data, GitHub

Favorite games played

Watchdogs, Horizon Zero Dawn, Plague Tales

Currently Playing

Witcher 3, and GuildWars 3

Other passions

I am a Jazz musician and enjoy playing my guitar-bass hybrid instrument which I built in 2017

You can visit my guitar/music website at:

https://felipeguitar.com

contact

my C++ plugin for WWISe

Currently I am working on a Wavetable synthesizer plugin for Wwise. My main goal is to use it in future projects for vehicle sound designs. This short clip showcases my progress with this plugin. So far the plugin has 22 oscillators with individual sliders, a scanning phase slider, and a phase-range offset. No other plugins or external effects, except for pitch (octave down), were used in the examples.

QUICK NOTE: at the moment we are transitioning VIGILANTE RACER from Unreal back into Unity. I will be updating this section in the coming months.

Sci-Fy Engine Metasounds

Here is an update on my latest engine sound design for the game Vigilante Racer by Dan Violet Sagmiller.

In the video you can hear all the components of the engines in MetaSounds. First, you will hear them separate, and then all together.

At the time of recording, CPU usage was spiking up to 10% per core. But I recently updated the patches and now it’s running at 2% with no spikes. phew 😅

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danvioletsagmiller/vigilante-racer-chapter-1

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2553720/Vigilante_Racer/

Audio Controls: Blueprints and Metasounds

This video is a breakdown of my prototype vehicle implementation for the game Vigilante Racer by Dan Violet Sagmiller. This is my approach to triggering and updating Metasound variables with the use of the TimeLine node in Blueprints.

You can view the blueprint at: https://blueprintue.com/profile/felipesound/

WARFRAME BY DIGITAL EXTREMES SOUND REDESIGN

Archer Vs Drones

Unreal, Wwise

Ambience and Footsteps

This video is a breakdown of how I implemented an integrated ambience and footsteps system in UE5 and Wwise with blueprints for my game Archer vs Drones. The sound design has gone through many improvements since I made this video. You can listen to the final version in the Wwise Demo Reel

Falling Drone Automation

In this video I will breakdown the audio implementation for the falling drone sequence in Archer vs Drones. The sound design has gone through many improvements since I made this video. You can listen to the final version in the Wwise Demo Reel.

Agent Stealth

Unreal, Metasounds, and Wwise

This is a breakdown for Agent Stealth. I created this game for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam. It features speech descriptions, a prompt collision system, and a custom scanning function, which allows blind players to focus on spatial sounds via mouse yaw movement.

felipe-sound.itch.io/agent-stealth

Ancient Hacker

Unreal Engine 5

Sound Design and Music Demo

Music and sound Demo of Ancient Hacker, a stealth and exploration four level game set in a mysterious library. I created the game in Unreal Engine 5 using blueprints and public domain art assets.

The game is available as a free download at

https://felipe-sound.itch.io/ancient-hacker

Trigger Sounds from an object's rotation

This video is a breakdown of the audio rotation system implemented in Ancient Hacker via blueprints and Unreal’s audio component.

Music Manager and Layered music

In this video you can see how I created a music manager blueprints script for Ancient Hacker

Pure Data: Spectral Delay

In this video I am sharing the features of my latest Pure data patch. It is a spectral delay with chorus and wave folding capabilities.

Hunted Forest Raylib C++

Me and my 9 year old made this game for our own Home Game jam. She created all the beautiful art while I worked on the sound design and code (C++) in Raylib. It was great to work on a project together and to connect in a different way than what we are used to.

Ocean Waves Unity C#

I wanted to give myself a challenge to create the reverse effect of an audio visualizer in Unity's Audio engine. An audio visualizer works by transferring data from the frequency spectrum through Unity’s Audio Source, and feeding this data to any parameter in the game. This time, I wanted to have an object such as a cube that was in a random state of change by way of a Lerp function. In this case, I could feed the random data to the sound effects in order to have both sound and movement linked to one another.

For the script I started with a scale Lerp function that had a random range value between 5f and 6f. Since I ended up wanting to create ocean waves as a practical application, I added another random range of speed between 1f and 10f. In this way the ocean waves would be less predictive and therefore more natural. At last, I added a Switch to trigger snapshots. The variable sfxDuration was made public so that it was easier to change it later in Unity.

There are two sound files, one is of a creek I recorded at a park close from home in Alameda CA, and the other is a sample of white noise. The creek mix only has a change of pitch effect. And the white noise is heavily processed with Unity's effects.

I changed the parameters of the effects and stored them in two snapshots. One snapshot presents parameters such as higher pitch, higher frequencies in the 3kHz range, less cut of low pass, lower high pass, less delay, for the waves crashing on the shore. This values are reversed on the second snapshot to represent the waves retreating.

I learned a lot from making this prototype both in terms of scripting as well as learning the possibilities within Unity's audio system . After this experiment I have realized that despite its limitations, compared with dedicated audio middle ware such as Wwise or Fmod, Unity's audio engine is still very powerful and impressive.

Felipe Sound