SPEAKER:
Luke Wilson

Audio

Luke Wilson

Senior Sound Designer

Luke has been in the games industry for eight years. He worked as a QA Tester while studying for an MSc in Sound and Music for Interactive Games and designing sound for indie projects on the side. He moved into audio full-time after joining Sumo in 2017 and has worked on the sound design for Hitman 2, Spyder, Sackboy: A Big Adventure and, most recently, Chronos and BuildUp.

Accessibility Through Audio

If we want to make video games that are truly accessible to everyone, audio design has a key role. From simple features like spatialized audio and volume sliders, through to advanced audio cues and ping systems, this talk will cover a number of ways that audio teams can improve accessibility in their games, as well as demonstrating how other teams can achieve this through collaboration with audio .