Premises
      • We are at the most exciting time:
         – The creation and evolution of a new media and 
           art form:  Interactive Audio Design and 
           Delivery
      • The issues are still fuzzy, but getting clearer 
        by the day
      • Plenty of BIG issues still need to be solved
                                   
                   Our Holy Grail
      The creation and delivery audio soundtracks 
        for interactive entertainment that give the 
        illusion that they were created post-
        production, but are generated or assembled 
        at run-time.
                                
        Our Holy Grail (paraphrased)
     Make games stop sounding like $%%&$@ 
       games!!!
                            
                  Our Holy Grail:
                   How we find it
           (where the heck do we go)
      • Identify challenges
      • Look at people, roles, aesthetic issues 
      • Identify tools, technologies, to be addressed
                                
         Challenges Above and Beyond 
                 Linear Entertainment
      • Music and sound effects need to FIT.
          – Not “kinda fit,”  “Sorta go with,” “almost get it,” “be 
            generally the right mood…”
      • Music and sound need to be as tightly integrated 
         to action as linear media, without having the 
         advantage of precognition
      • Delivery platforms vary
          – Leads to “least common denominator” implementations