Creating a UI slider volume control in Unity is straightforward, by using exposed parameters, the Audio Mixer and a simple script. This is useful for creating UI audio volume controls for your player. There’s just one problem… …Unity’s standard tutorial, …
Create a Low-Health Audio Filter in Unity, Using the Audio Mixer & Transition to Snapshots
Unity’s Audio Mixer provides all kinds of possibilities for manipulating audio signals. In this post I’m going to explain how I use Audio Mixer Snapshots and the Transition to Snapshots function to create an audio filtering effect that’s controlled by …
Planned Price Change: Ultimate Game Music Collection
This is an advance notice that I will soon be raising the price of the Ultimate Game Music Collection across all marketplaces. Why am I raising the price? When I first created the collection, I wanted to provide an affordable, …
[Resolved] Unreal Marketplace Customers Using Unreal Engine 4.15.3 or Lower (Ultimate Game Music Collection Only)
Update: 28th Dec, 2017. The updated package is now live. The package has been updadted to support older Unrealy engine versions (as low as 4.10). Any users still experiencing an issue can email me at [email protected] for support. Update: 23rd …
[Resolved] Issue Affecting Ultimate Game Music Collection v1.7 (Unreal Marketplace only)
This issue has now been resolved. New imports of the asset will now be organised correctly. Any existing installations can be manually fixed using the guidance below or re-imported to the project. My apologies for any inconvenience caused. I’ve been …
Western Saloon Sound Design: Adding Audio to a Scene in Unity + Free Sound Effects
Creating the soundtrack for an entire game environment This portfolio piece is an opportunity for me to demonstrate music, sound design and audio integration across a single demo, that you can watch and (soon) play yourself. The saloon is an …
Lectures, Lectures, & More Game Music Lectures
It’s been an interesting start to the year. Having never given a lecture before I’ve now done four in the last month. It started when fellow composer, friend and a former tutor of mine, the exceptionally cool Ethan Lewis Maltby …
Endless Cave Music (Random Music System)
Recently, I created an ambient, dungeon style track, made for a cave scenario, that was essentially a mix of ambient, ethereal pads and strings, with timed melodic and percussive cues. More like sound design than a fixed musical progression, I …
Sort The Shepz!
Original music by John Leonard French, for Alex Zable’s fast action puzzle game, Shepz.
Fragger 2
Original music, by John Leonard French, for the iOS grenade hurling puzzle game Fragger 2, developed by Harold Brenes.