Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound is a 2016 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Karen Collins, who, according to Dana Plank on the Journal of the Society for American Music, has published "some of the most influential texts on the history of game audio." The documentary examines the history of game sound design from penny arcades, pinball and video games up to 2015. The documentary was founded through Kickstarter, and features interviews with people involved in game sound design, such as: Marty O'Donnell, Nathan McCree, George Sanger, Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura and Winifred Phillips among others.

It was awarded with the Best Editing film in the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival in 2016.

Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound

Cast

The following people were interviewed in the documentary:

Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound

Becky Allen

Yoshino Aoki

Simon Ashby

Clint Bajakian

William 'Chip' Beaman

Brendan Becker

Erik Braa

Anastasios Brakis

Alexander Brandon

Allister Brimble

John Broomhall

Tracy W. Bush

Bryan Celano

D.B. Cooper

Michael Csurics

Charles Deenen

Peter Drescher

Gordon Durity

Mark Estdale

Brad Fuller

Scott Martin Gershin

Jason Graves

Andreas Hamm

James Hannigan

Lance Hayes

Rich Heimlich

Rudy Helm

Spencer Hooks

Steve Horowitz

Shinji Hosoe

Chris Huelsbeck

Sam S. Hughes (Credited as Sam Hughes

Noriyuki Iwadare

Richard Jacques

Damian Kastbauer

Michael Kelly

Hiroki Kikuta

Penka Kouneva

Michael Land

Jennifer Lewis

Levon Louis

Richard Ludlow

Peter McConnell

Nathan McCree

Dren McDonald

Dan Miller

Takuya Nakagami

Koichi Namiki

Michiko Naruke

Graeme Norgate

Martin O'Donnell

Hisayoshi Ogura

Joanna Orland

Rebecca Parnell

Leonard J. Paul

Winifred Phillips

Shannon Potter

Jory K. Prum

Tom Rettig

Wilbert Roget II

Arnie Roth

Hitoshi Sakimoto

Tom Salta

George Alistair Sanger

Nobuyoshi Sano

Tenpei Sato

Brian L. Schmidt

Stephan Schutze

Garry Schyman

Tetsuya Shibata

Yôko Shimomura

Chanel Summers

Yuji Takenouchi

David E. Thiel

Masanobu 'Tomi' Tomita

Nobuo Uematsu

David Viens

David Warhol

Jim Welch

Tom White

Guy Whitmore

Alex Wilmer

Nick Wiswell

References

External links

2016 films

2016 documentary films

Canadian documentary films

Documentary films about video games

2010s English-language films

2010s Canadian films

Beep: A Documentary History of Game Sound