'Tis the Season!

We’re so excited to share our in-depth exploration of the sonic storytelling behind Season: A Letter to the Future! Dive into the special podcast edition of the Wwise Up On Air livestream we hosted a while back, and explore all the short video excerpts now available as part of Six Days of Season.

Throughout December 2024, we released a new set of videos each day, and now you can watch the full series to uncover the thoughtful soundscapes and innovative audio design of Season: A Letter to the Future!

Thank you, Carrie!

This special podcast edition & highlight videos were thoughtfully crafted by Carrie Joy Anderson (Podcast & Video Editor; LinkedIn). We are so grateful for her fantastic work, which allows us to resurface this livestream in podcast format, as well as short video excerpts, for your enjoyment! Thank you, Carrie!

How to Explore This Series

• Wwise Up Podcast: Take the podcast on the go, perfect for listening during your commute or a cozy evening at home with a steaming cup of your favourite beverage (hot chocolate? Tea? Mulled wine?)
• Six Days of Season - All Videos Now Available: Enjoy the short video excerpts, perfect for quick insights into key topics. The full series has been revealed - watch all six days of videos now!
  
• Revisit the original livestream: Catch the full livestream and experience the conversation as it happened.

Wwise Up Podcast

The special podcast edition of this Wwise Up On Air is your ultimate deep dive into the magic of Season’s sound. Hear from Vibe Avenue’s (now SIDE Montreal) FX Dupas, Nikola Viel, and Manuel Silva, alongside Audio Director & Composer Spencer Doran, as they explore:

• The music & ambience systems of Season: A Letter to the Future
• The in-game binaural field recorder & designing a world fit for in-game field recording
• The role of haptic feedback in deepening player experience
• And so much more!

 

Six Days of Season - All Videos Now Available

’Tis the season for advent calendars! But instead of chocolates, you get video snippets (or grab some chocolates to enjoy alongside the snippets - you deserve it). 

The full series has now been revealed, so you can watch all six days of videos and explore the sonic storytelling and sound design behind Season: A Letter to the Future.

Day 1: A Crescendo In Recorded History

The most critical piece in the narrative design and progression of Season is introduced: the realistic in-game tape recorder.

Day 2: Introducing The Auditorialists

The narrative of Season: A Letter to the Future is presented and the audio team that sculpted its soundscape reveal their backgrounds and what brought them to the project.

Day 3: A Lush Audio Ecology

The deeply immersive environmental audio and its restorative reverberations.

 
 

 
 

Day 4: Traversing Musical Biomes

The engineering craftsmanship that generates the continuously cohesive background music that accompanies Estelle through her journey. 

 
 

Day 5: Fabricating Visceral Intricacy

The technical complexity and player empathy required to create accessible sounds that can be experienced tactually through haptic game controller feedback.  

 
 

Day 6: Co-Crafting Ornate Explorations 

The painstaking multidisciplinary efforts to design, build, playtest, and revise a delicately complex, audio-driven storytelling experience. 

 
 

You can also catch up with the full playlist on YouTube! Check that out here.

Revisit the Original Livestream

A while back, we were joined by the audio team behind Season: A Letter to the Future, who us through the game's ambitious & thoughtful music systems, dived into the binaural in-game field recorder, haptic feedback & more! Give it a watch: