'Ironically, this makes them sound more realistic as this is what the player would expect,' says audio designer Ben Scholey. To combat this, we had to use in a very surgical way to remove that distance between the mic and the orangutan, mainly using de-reverb and adding in more low end content,' he says.ДЄnother trick that Planet Zoo's team employed was playing up some of the smaller sounds that animals make: Little grunts, breaths, and other things you would likely never be close enough to hear. 'All the recordings we found were mid-far perspective and as soon as we implemented them, they felt disconnected when experienced from a close perspective in game. 'A good example of this was the orangutan, as they have a call that they produce on top of trees known as a 'long call hoot,'' Canas explains. Bringing animals closer to a player's ear using a distantly recorded source involved some expert sound editing. The problem is, many real recordings for those animals are taken from a distance. As a management game, you have the godlike ability to observe your animal friends up close and personal. Planet Zoo's animals were difficult to design in part due to the perspective of the game itself. 'I listen to each one and decide what emotion that vocalization fits best, and I try to match that up with bear states we have in the game,' he says. After that, he had to lay out all the puzzle pieces and take stock. It's a process of cutting up existing clips from libraries he had access to and grabbing just what he needed. 'What I do initially is collect everything I can, start chopping it up, and I put things into various folders with names like: Angry, sad, idling, eating, roars, curious etc,' Jamison says. The Long Dark's intimidating grizzly bear needed lots of different sounds to sell its presence in the Canadian wilderness. Library recordings are limited and there's often a lot of background noise you're dealing with,' he explains. 'The bear was probably the hardest animal to make sound believable. 'The challenges with using sfx libraries are mostly to do with getting a consistent sound and quality,' says Jamison. Not all recordings are created equal, of course. Sound libraries help sound designers sidestep the challenges of going out in the field but also add an extra layer of technical difficulty. Those libraries were particularly useful for Frontier Developments when it needed sounds for Planet Zoo's 80 species. 'Due to the falling cost of high-end recording equipment and the advent of crowdfunding, many independent sound designers and recordists have been able to create and publish a wealth of incredible libraries,' Canas says. When kids and kazoos won't do the trick and hauling equipment out to record an animal live just isn't feasible, sound designers often turn to libraries of sounds recorded and provided by others. The breaths of the tortoise, for example, is the sound of breathing through a hose Planet Zoo's Ben Scholey 'I'm not gonna like, poke a bear or something.' 'Animals are going to do what they want,' agrees Clark. 'You'd need that animal to actually be angry, and that's not easy to do without upsetting the animal.' 'Getting a dog to growl playfully doesn't sound the same,' Jamison says. Getting a live animal to make the sounds you need isn't easy.

The Long Dark's animals are almost always a threat to the player. Using real animals can present ethical problems in addition to the logistical, points out Hinterland Studio's audio director Glenn Jamison.

This made them tricky to record,' Canas says. 'We found audio for the gorilla to be quite elusive due to their quiet nature. 'Animals as a rule of thumb are often fairly quiet and generally only vocalise if something is happening, for example when they feel threatened or during mating rituals,' says Planet Zoo's senior audio Designer Pablo Canas.ДЇor Planet Zoo's team, the gorilla was a particular problem area. 'Underwater microphones, called hydrophones, and a вЂњclick detector,вЂќ which translates the dolphinsвЂ™ high-frequency clicks to audible levels.'Д®ven for animals that don't live in the ocean, getting a microphone in front of their furry faces won't always produce needed results. 'To even be able to hear some of the dolphinвЂ™s sounds, we had to use special equipment,' Г…berg says. Mojang started with kazoos before graduating to real animals

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