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About

Thank you for stopping by.

My name is Felipe Gomez and I am a sound designer from Colombia currently residing in the United States.

After 15 years both performing as a musician and teaching music in the San Francisco Bay area, my interest for game audio has grown exponentially and recently I have devoured every tutorial, book, and software I can get my hands on. It has been exciting and I have learned a lot. As a result I have created three games doing sound design and audio as well as programming. I also made numerous audio implementation prototypes and I have collaborated in various game jams as a sound designer. 

I like to stay busy and continually work on projects. When I find time I also enjoy hiking and playing video games.

I graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Master’s degree in music composition and I am currently an Audio Visual Technician for Encore.

 

Main skills

Sound Design, Wwise, Unreal blueprints, C++, Reaper

 

Additional Skills

C#, Unity, Fmod, Raylib, Pure Data, Github

 

Favorite games:

All stealth games! Watchdogs Legion for its mechanics and multi character features. I am currently playing Horizon Zero Dawn - another great stealth game.

 

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 composition page at:

https://felipeguitar.com

 

 

contact

Current Projects

Vigilante Racer

Unreal, Wwise

For the past month I have been so lucky to work as audio designer with developer Dan Violet Sagmiller on his game Vigilante Racer. The game takes a unique approach to anti-gravitational racing with unique mechanics and physics.  As a player you can craft vehicles to race on ceilings, walls and tracks in the sky and to engage in thrilling battles while navigating a corrupt Sci-Fi world. 

Inspired by the sound from the movie Oppenheimer, I used thunder sounds to recreate the atomic tires. Here the tires are part of the engine and designed to be driven by RPM values. 


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

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

Past Projects

Archer Vs Drones full demo

Unreal, Wwise

This is a full demo of my mini game Archer vs. Drones made in Unreal Engine with Wwise.

Ambience and Footsteps

Unreal, Wwise

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.

Falling drone automation

Unreal, Wwise

In this video I will breakdown the audio implementation for the falling drone sequence in Archer vs Drones

Agent Stealth

Unreal, Metasounds, and Wwise

This is a breakdown for Agent Stealth made in Unreal Engine 5 with Wwise. I created this game for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam. It features speech descriptions with velocity controls, a prompt collision system, and a custom scanning function, which allows blind players to focus on spatial sounds via mouse yaw movement. I am currently working on improving the sound design palette and the AI systems. The game is currently available in beta form at felipe-sound.itch.io/agent-stealth

Ancient Hacker

Unreal Engine 5

Ancient Hacker is 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. It's being a great experience to learn all the aspects of making a game from design, technical implementation, and scripting, to sound effects and music.

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

More Audio Implementation and Prototypes

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.  

Audio Visualiser in Unity C#

 This is a first prototype for an album release video. I wrote a C# script audio visualizer for Unity. The script was heavily influenced by some of the tutorials in Peer Play https://youtube.com/c/PeerPlay. 

Original art work by my great friend and beautiful person Helena Lopez. The music is from my upcoming album Mojave Groove.