By Winifred Phillips | Contact | Follow
Glad you’re here! I’m videogame composer Winifred Phillips, and every year I compile a “big list” of the top online resources available for game audio folks. It’s an evolving list that expands each year as more awesome professional tools and great networking opportunities become available. However, before we begin, it’s important to acknowledge what the Covid-19 pandemic has done to our industry this year. While the games themselves are as popular as ever, those of us making assets for these games are working under extraordinary circumstances. It’s harder than ever to meet face-to-face, and our community can feel a bit fractured and distant. With that in mind, let’s kick off this list with a look at how we’re connecting with each other in the time of the coronavirus, exploring how conferences and events have adapted to our socially-distant world this year. In doing so, I’ll be sharing some videos from conferences that took place entirely online, including the full-length video of the talk I gave in 2020 at the Game Developer Conference (pictured above). After that, we’ll once again explore the best available resources in the form of online community groups, software applications, and academic institutions with wellsprings of expert knowledge to share.
So if everybody’s ready, then let’s get started!