Sound designer here!
The hackiest moment was butchering the EQ trying to get my voice to sound the way it sounds in my head and not like it actually sounds, failing miserably, and then just adding a s**tload of reverb thinking "that might just cover it up". Also, splicing every single drum hit to align it to the rhythm as electronic parcussion ia not my usual instrument :P
To hear both, hit the gong:
Reverb is a dark art as far as I'm concerned. Our sound guy would have me listen to sounds with heaps of reverb that sounded wrong, and just tell me to 'wait until I hear it layered over the music'.
At which point it sounded perfect.
At which point he would say it wasn't, and would go and fix it.
My theory is you're all wizards.
Programmer here,
We were trying to have the game play out on a semi-realistic terrain with a whole monastery setup and designed, a little lake, mountains etc.
So we take a step back 2 hours before the original deadline and just go: "Ok, this looks like a piece of sh*t"
I quickly delete the whole level (except the gong), grab the post processing stack, turn bloom up to 11 and assign emissive materials on EVERYTHING. And it looks kinda nice now :P
