Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound (2016)
- Directed by
- Karen Collins
- Genre
- documentary film, historical film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary traces the history of sound in games from early penny arcades to modern video games. It features interviews with many key composers and sound designers who shaped game audio over the decades.
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What happens
Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound is a 2016 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Karen Collins, who, according to Dana Plank on the Journal of the Society for American Music, has published "some of the most influential texts on the history of game audio." The documentary examines the history of game sound design from penny arcades, pinball and video games up to 2015. The documentary was founded through Kickstarter, and features interviews with people involved in game sound design, such as: Marty O'Donnell, Nathan McCree, George Sanger, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura and Winifred Phillips among others. It was awarded with the Best Editing film in the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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