Introduction to game audio

Chances are, if you have played a few computer, video, or mobile games in your life, you are already quite familiar with what great game audio should sound like. Perhaps; you even cherish the audio from a couple of your favorite games. However, if someone asked you how they composed or mixed that audio, unless you were a professional audio technician, you would likely be at a loss on how the audio in a game mixes together. Fortunately, in this section, we will start to introduce some of the basic concepts of game audio, which we will of course build upon in later chapters in this book.