Richard Ludlow is an American video game audio director, sound designer, music producer, and voice director, best known for his work on ''

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'', ''

King's Quest ''King's Quest'' is a graphic adventure game series, released between 1980 and 2016 and created by the American software company Sierra Entertainment. It is widely considered a classic series from the golden era of adventure games. Following th ...

'', ''

Ring of Elysium ''Ring of Elysium'' ( zh, 无限法则) is a free-to-play, multiplayer online battle royale game developed by Aurora Studio and published by ''TCH Scarlet Limited'', each a subsidiary of Tencent Games, and is available to download for free on S ...

'' and '' Arena of Valor''. He is the founder and co-owner of

Hexany Audio Hexany Audio is an audio post-production studio based in the Greater Los Angeles area. It provides custom sound, original music, voice over, audio programming, and sound branding for video games, virtual reality (VR) and interactive media. Hi ...

. Ludlow was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of 2019 under the Games category. Ludlow attended

Fountain Valley High School Fountain Valley High School (FVHS) is a public high school in Fountain Valley, California, USA. It was established in 1966 and is a part of the Huntington Beach Union High School District. It is notable for its rivalry with Edison High School, p ...

in Fountain Valley, California. He studied electronic production and design (EPD) at

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

In 2012, Ludlow founded

with three friends at Berklee.

Career

Ludlow is the co-owner and audio director at

, which has audio credits for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,

H1Z1 ''Z1 Battle Royale'' (formerly ''H1Z1'' and ''King of the Kill'') is a battle royale game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company. The game's development began after the original ''H1Z1'' was spun off into two separate projects in early ...

, Arena of Valor, King’s Quest 2015, Ring of Elysium, Into the Stars, Blade Runner: Revelations (VR)., audio producer on film and television projects, including '' The Cold Light of Day'', '' The Raven'', and projects for

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brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Activision, and Nike. Ludlow has presented talks on audio for video games at GDC, GDC Europe, GDC Next, GameSoundCon,

PAX East PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia in the United States; and Melbourne in Australia. PAX was ...

, PAX Dev, IndieCade, Gamescom, Casual Connect, the

External Development Summit The External Development Summit (XDS) is a three-day event for the video game industry with its first edition held in 2013, and hosted annually in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The summit was established in order to share video game development best pract ...

, the Midwest Game Developers Summit, Sigma Play, the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo, MIT, WonderCon, and

. Ludlow was nominated for a

Hollywood Music in Media Award The Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) is an award organization honoring original music (Song and Score) in all forms visual media including film, TV, video games, trailers, commercial advertisements, documentaries, music videos and special pr ...

for Original Score in a Video Game for his work on ''Moonlight Blade: Moonlight Over the Sea''.

Filmography

Video games

Film

References

External links

Hexany Audio Credits List
Living people Audio directors American sound designers American voice directors Video game composers 21st-century American composers Berklee College of Music alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Electronic-musician-stub