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Robert Tirotta is redefining immersive storytelling with audio-only escape rooms, crafting rich, inclusive experiences where players rely solely on sound. In this interview, he shares his journey, creative process, and insights on making games accessible
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- by Pan Athen
- in Audio Storytelling, Creator Spotlight
Are AAA game studios truly dying? Are indie developers and AA studios ready to fill the gap? How can you create a game with stunning aesthetics and immersive sound and set your game apart without
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- by Pan Athen
- in Game Audio, Insights
Game world designer, visual artist, and studio owner Adam Oikonomopoulos shares his creative journey in world-building and sound design, using Echotopia to bring his artistic visions to life in real-time.
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- by Pan Athen
- in Creator Spotlight, Game Audio
After nearly 15 years of enhancing tabletop adventures and immersive experiences, DMDJ is reaching the end of its journey. Discover its powerful replacement Echotopia, our next-generation desktop app, built to elevate soundscape creation for every
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- by Pan Athen
- in News and Updates, Tabletop Audio
The Echotopia v1.2 update brings new source behaviors, new content, audio engine improvements, and a simpler pricing model.
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- by Pan Athen
- in News and Updates
Learn how to fill empty spaces like abandoned structures, basements, house rooms, and more with sound coming through the walls. A cool trick used by professional sound designers, which you can't do in any other
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Audio Storytelling, Tabletop Audio
Learn how to create the complex soundscape of a medieval village. Listen to how realistic acoustics, such as reverberation and occlusion, give each location its original character.
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Audio Storytelling, Tabletop Audio
SoundFellas releases Echotopia, a new desktop audio editor specialized in producing soundscapes, acoustic environments, ambience loops, and atmospheres. Echotopia combines the intuitiveness of a map editor with the layering of sounds using tools similar to
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in News and Updates
Join SoundFellas and Pan Athen at the Chaniartoon 2022 International Comic and Animation Festival which takes place at Chania/Crete from 5 to 18 this September. Presenting a soundscape production workshop, a talk about the similarities
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in News and Updates
After more than 30 years in creative audio design, engineering, and production, our founder Pan Athen is sharing the top 10 practices he considers the most valuable for a sustainable career in the creative audio
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- by Pan Athen
- in Learning and Culture
This is an official open call to all science researchers specialized in life sciences who need audio content. If using specialized audio signals and vibrations with high fidelity could help your research, this article is
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- by Pan Athen
- in Sound Design
If you missed it, it's now available online. In this ask-me-anything video session, our founder and lead designer, Pan Athen, answers everything you need to know about soundscape design for games, film, storytelling, the metaverse,
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Audio Storytelling, Film Sound, Game Audio, Immersive Audio, Sound Design, Tabletop Audio
Setting up your game room is a great adventure by itself. By incorporating audio into the experience, you can create a truly immersive play area. To help you choose which speakers to use to playback
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Tabletop Audio
In this live ask-me-anything session, our founder and lead designer, Pan Athen, will answer everything you need to know about soundscape design for games, film, storytelling, the metaverse, and beyond. Post your questions and join
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Immersive Audio, Sound Design
Sharing your Echotopia campaigns with friends and community will be very easy, as we just finished coding the project portability feature.
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- by Manolis Benetos
- in Tabletop Audio
Learn how to extend your classic stereo audio setup with more speakers to create a fully immersive and comfortable game room for you and your players.
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Tabletop Audio
Our lead software engineer, Manolis Benetos, explains the main differences between soundscape generating and soundscape design applications and shares his vision of how soundscape design might change storytelling in the future.
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- by Manolis Benetos
- in Behind the Scenes
In this R&D diary entry, our audio producer and community manager Antonis Koutelias, shows how we used user-centered design practices to create the sound classification system for the Echotopia Soundscape Designer.
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- by Antonis Koutelias
- in Behind the Scenes
In this short and abstract memoir, SoundFellas founder and lead designer Panos Kouvelis tracks down some of the important milestones of his life, that led him on designing the Echotopia Soundscape Designer application.
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- by Pan Athen
- in Behind the Scenes
Learn what diegetic and non-diegetic is and the rest of the virtual soundscape diegesis layers, and how to classify you sound sources depending on the narrative (or diegesis), to create vivid transitions and your own
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- by Pan Athen
- in Film Sound
In this second part of the article, we propose an easy way to "upmix" your 2D game into 7.1 surround which is a standard surround speaker configuration. You can expand this method to any other
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- by Pan Athen
- in Game Audio
Why 2D games seldom feature surround sound output? Should they? How can this be done correctly? We try to look deeper into those questions and provide some useful answers for the aspiring game developer.
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- by Pan Athen
- in Game Audio
Noiseprints (aka roomtones or presence) are the base on which we build our immersion in sound for media. Learn the properties and features of this sound type and how to properly use it in your
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- by Pan Athen
- in Game Audio
