Arnaud BRICHE
Unity Software
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{"Filter":"Art","FilterValue":"Art\/Audio","Name":"Adam Sporka","company":"Embody","Image":"https:\/\/content.gdsession.com\/2025\/11\/CBC5C957-DDFD-053E-F49B-38F3C894B91C.jpg","titles":"Kingdom Come: Deliverance I, II","TalkName":"The Essentials of Procedural Game Audio","TalkDescription":"You can sculpt sounds at the sample level! This session explores how designing custom synthesizers introduces creative constraints that foster originality. We\u2019ll cover the principles of coding audio generators and demonstrate how they can respond directly to gameplay parameters\u2014such as player speed, item state, or environmental cues. The underlying logic can be integrated into middleware like Wwise or FMOD, ensuring your game\u2019s audio remains distinctive, cohesive, and highly scalable.","description":"Adam Sporka is a game audio researcher, developer, and educator, specializing in interactive music and sound. He composed for Kingdom Come: Deliverance I & II, served as KCD II\u2019s technical music director, and created the Sequence Music Engine which handled the music in the games. He is a principal engineer at Embody, a spatial audio technology start-up. Adam also teaches game audio at University of California, Santa Cruz and holds a Ph.D. in HCI. You can reach him at Twitter @adam_sporka.","jobTitle":"Principal Engineer","TalkLanguage":"English","TalkHall":null,"AllSpeakers":""}
{"Filter":"Art","FilterValue":"Art\/Audio","Name":"Dominik Regec","company":"Hangar 13","Image":"https:\/\/content.gdsession.com\/2025\/11\/17C72B63-1082-7481-36BD-11744B9444E2.jpg","titles":"MAFIA III, MAFIA: DE, MAFIA: The Old Country","TalkName":"Mafia: The Old Country: World & Biomes","TalkDescription":"In this session, Hangar 13 showcases how they created early 20th century Sicily nature through detailed landscapes and biomes in Mafia: The Old Country.\r\nWe will go through how the creation of the world proceeded through project lifetime. What were the major steps in videogame development from pre-production to finalization phases. Everything is accompanied by example references, images and graphs to help us understand the processes and challenges.","description":"As the Lead Environment Artist at Hangar 13, I am passionate about creating immersive and realistic environments, notably for the acclaimed MAFIA franchise. I have 15+ years of professional practice in 3D graphics, realtime rendering and game development, including 5 years of work experience in the USA.\r\nDuring my career I went through various art & tech-art disciplines: creation of props, vehicles, buildings, production of game city districts, mission set-pieces and even whole game worlds.","jobTitle":"Lead Environment Artist","TalkLanguage":"English","TalkHall":null,"AllSpeakers":""}
Jonathan Court
Grip Studios
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Jiří Vašica
Perun Creative
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Tomáš Hoffman
Grip Studios
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