One of the great joys of game design is that there’s always something new to learn. There are so many fields involved in creating a game intended for public release that no one person can master them all. It’s always possible to find something new to explore.

Today, for example, I did a lot of audio mixing. Having no particular audio experience, I had to learn the skills involved from scratch. Needless to say, I touched only the surface–but even what I was able to learn in a workday was fascinating. The audio in the new version of Phalanx is better for having learned it, and future projects will no doubt benefit as well.

I don’t have anything especially insightful to say about audio mixing. I’m simply struck by how neat it is that I got to spend some time studying it at all. On the list of things I never thought I’d get to try . . . .