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Industry Groups & Resources

IGDA www.igda.org
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization serving individuals that create video games. The IGDA advances the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community.
GANG www.audiogang.org
The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) is a non-profit organization established to educate the masses about interactive audio by providing information, instruction, resources, guidance, and enlightenment not only to its members, but to content providers and listeners.
Project Bar-B-Q www.projectbarbq.com
Project Bar-B-Q is an annual conference designed to influence music hardware and software over the next five years. Three to five groups—each consisting of hardware developers, software developers, audio engineers, composers, and technology executives—spend two days of facilitated brainstorming to formulate solutions to the industry's most important problems. The result is the annual BBQ Report.
Sonify.org www.sonify.org
Sonify.org provided news and information on web, portable, and wireless audio until about May 2007. The site is no longer updated, but still contains relevant and historical information.

Education

"The Game Audio Tutorial"
The demonstration level using the Unreal Development Kit is available now to download and use for free. This game level developed by Richard Stevens and Dave Raybould from Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K. illustrates many of the fundamental concepts involved in developing sound and music for games. (An older version made for Unreal 3 is available here.)

"Discover, Learn, and Play"
This site provides a comprehensive music education course online, and is a a valuable tool for music teachers, students and enthusiasts world-wide. The membership program is run by the The Dallas School of Music, Inc.  which has been providing world-class music education services for over a decade.

Audio Institute of America offers a world-wide distance-learning course for recording engineers and music producers.

Vancouver Film School offers a one year program in Sound Design for Visual Media, including a "Game Audio" stream.

Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences includes sound recording for video games in their "CRAS Master Recording Program II" curriculum.


Working Groups

Interactive XMF
The world's first open format for interactive audio content...

Game Audio Education
Resources for students and educators about interactive audio...

Resources

Interactive Audio Wiki
Learn about the tools & techniques for making Interactive Audio...

"Ask the IASIG" Web Forum
Ask our experts about the art or technology of Interactive Audio...

NEW! "Game Audio Relevance"
Tagged links to articles relevant to Game Audio...

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