Francesco Del Pia
The Chinese Room
Francesco Del Pia is a Senior Sound Designer at The Chinese Room, where he worked on the technical audio systems and sound design for Still Wakes the Deep. Previous games he worked on include Enotria: The Last Song, Star Citizen, and Squadron 42. In addition to games, he designed sounds and wrote music for film, theatre, television, and installations. Always invested in mentoring game audio enthusiasts, he founded a community to help Italian professionals entering the industry, created a series of videos about Wwise authoring techniques, and regularly speaks at universities and industry events.
Francesco Del Pia is speaking at the following session/s
Still Wakes the Deep: The Audio Design Behind the Oil Rig
In this talk we will explain how the audio team developed the sound design for the unique environment of the oil rig, one of the protagonists of Still Wakes the Deep.
We will describe the audio direction we followed, the design techniques we mastered and the implementation tools we developed in order to effectively support and enhance the game's narrative and atmosphere. Our strategies evolved throughout the game's production, and we will highlight how they adapted to answer to the game's shifting demands on the path to release.
Lastly, we will explain how the culture of cross-department collaboration at The Chinese Room allowed audio to effectively drive several visual and haptic systems to achieve a coherent and holistic experience for the player.
Session Takeaway
- Learn how the atmospheric sound design for the rig came together, and what were the main contributing elements to its effectiveness
- Learn how a realistic approach to audio implementation helped to ground the game experience and make it more believable
- Understand how audio can effectively drive other game systems, and how this can benefit the player's immersion
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