Talks by Jakob Schmid

Talks

I've been fortunate enough to have been invited to give a couple of talks throughout the last couple of years, and this page contains slides and examples from those talks.

Slides

• 
  2025-03-15: GDC Talk: The Synthesizer Plugins of 'COCOON'

  Slides about COCOON

• 
  2025-02-26: Sonic College

  Slides about COCOON, INSIDE, 140, and adaptive and generative music

• 
  2016-06-16: Wwise Tour presentation, Warsaw: Unbreaking Immersion

  Videos and slides on INSIDE, with technical details

• 
  2015-01-29: Spilbar, Copenhagen: Way Beyond the Expected

  Slides, code examples, and example videos about inventive audio ideas in old games, featuring Atari arcade games with FM sound, 1-bit audio on the ZX Spectrum, software synthesis in Defender

Slides (obsolete)

• 2024-06-25: Audio Engineering Society Denmark
• 2024-07-11: Develop: Brighton
• 2024-02-28: Sonic College
• 2023-11-23: Game Audio Playthrough
• 2023-03-01: Sonic College
• 2022-03-09: Sonic College
• 2021-02-23: Sonic College
• 2020-02-25: Sonic College
• 2019-05-19: Spilbar, Copenhagen: Adaptive Audio in INSIDE and 140
• 2019-03-21: Sonic College, Haderslev: Realtime Synthesis in Games
• 2018-03-05: Sonic College, Haderslev: Game Audio - INSIDE and 140
• 2017-03-08: Sonic College, Haderslev: Game Audio - INSIDE and 140
• 2016-04-05: ITU guest lecture, Copenhagen: The Boy from INSIDE
• 2016-02-11: AES 61st International Conference, London: The Boy from INSIDE
• 2014-05-23: Nordic Game Conference, Copenhagen: Synchronization of Music and Gameplay in 140
• 2014-05-21: Nordic Game Jam talk, Copenhagen: 140 beats per minute

Other Talks

• 2024-05-24: Nordic Game Conference: Audio Director's Roundtable

Podcasts

• Merging Audio and Gameplay in COCOON
  • AIAS Game Maker's Notebook Podcast
  • Interview with Austin Wintory
  • Available on YouTube
• The Definition of Indie with Schmid and Kho
  • The Fourth Curtain
  • Podcast episode (Spotify, Apple Podcasts)

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