TCoS: The Sound of Shorath Mesa Dev Journal

The Chronicles of Spellborn developer Matthew Florianz has written a developer journal on creating ambient sounds for specific areas to bring them to life.
The focus of this dev journal is Shorath Mesa. Gaming Today has previously covered an art dev journal on this new area of Spellborn. The challenge here is to convey the sounds of the forest transitioning to those of the swamp. There is also an ancient shrine here; the Shorath Mesa Shrine of Currents. In TCoS, most of the shrines are from a time gone by so the ambient sound is more musical and dreamlike. Even the sound of thunder and lightning strikes are dulled.

Often the importance of sound whether it’s ambient sound or part of a soundtrack is overlooked because of more obvious elements in a game such as graphics. This dev journal takes a look at this element that can often make an area seem to fit perfectly with the world when its right or can set players on edge on a subconscious level if not done well.

via MMORPG