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Rethinking game audio: from sound effects to player experience

A sound ultimately belongs to its listener.

7 min readApr 3, 2023

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An AI-generated image, a human silhouette and a big abstract soundwave visualization

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Spatial audio and player performance

The positive and negative effects of audio spatialization.

6 min readJul 30, 2023

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Ludic audio and player performance

Part 2: Understanding auditory reaction time

9 min readMar 27, 2023

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An excited gamer with his headphones one, yelling

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Ludic audio and player performance

Part 1: Comprehensive and Indicative sounds

15 min readApr 13, 2023

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An AI-generated stylized image of a blindfolded man wearing headphones and holding a weird gaming controller in his hand

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Sound design and the perception of time

We often say that humans are visual creatures. The Colavita visual dominance effect demonstrates that visually abled people are strongly…

10 min readMar 29, 2023

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Ludic and narrative sound in games

I believe that game sound design is not about designing sound, but about designing the game via sound. Every sound has a function. Every…

10 min readSep 23, 2023

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The plane with two axes: Ludic as X and Narrative as Y

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Safe and sound: a few thoughts on pleasantness in videogame sound effects

In my two previous posts, I looked for a reliable technique to control the perceived unpleasantness of video game sound effects. Even…

10 min readOct 26, 2020

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Deconstructing unpleasantness in videogame sound effects. Part 2: Practice

In the previous post, I described several acoustic properties that, according to scientific literature, make sound unpleasant to hear. In…

15 min readSep 6, 2020

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Witch from Left 4 Dead

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Deconstructing unpleasantness in videogame sound effects

After I wrote a post about disruptive audio in games, a few people asked why didn’t I mention any known acoustic features of annoying or…

13 min readAug 30, 2020

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Reading as Listening: competing verbal messages in games

Have you ever tried to follow two conversations at once? You probably know how difficult it is. In 1953 E. Colin Cherry conducted a series…

8 min readJun 29, 2020

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Denis Zlobin

Denis Zlobin

Functional Audio and Audio UX in video games. I write articles about game audio design that teach you nothing about DAWs, plugins, game engines, and middleware.

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