Richard Ludlow is an American video game audio director,

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, 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 ...

'', '' Ring of Elysium'' and ''

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''. He is the founder and co-owner of Hexany Audio. Ludlow was named on the

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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. It is a part of the Huntington Beach Union High School District. History Fountain Valley was established in 1966. It is notable for its rivalry with Ed ...

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. He studied electronic production and design (EPD) at

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music () is a Private university, private music college in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern Music of the United ...

In 2012, Ludlow founded Hexany Audio with three friends at Berklee.

Career

Ludlow is the co-owner and audio director at Hexany Audio, which has audio credits for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds,

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, 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'', ''

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'', and projects for

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brands such as

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Activision Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in Santa Monica, California. It serves as the publishing business for its parent company, Activision Blizzard, and consists of several subsidiary studios. Activision is one o ...

, and

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. Ludlow has presented talks on audio for video games at GDC,

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, 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, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. Previously, it was also held in San Anton ...

, PAX Dev,

IndieCade IndieCade is an international juried festival of independent games. Game types include video games, live-action games, and tabletop games. Independent game developers are selected to demo, screen, and promote their work at the annual IndieCade fe ...

Gamescom Gamescom (stylized as ''gamescom'') is a trade fair for video games held annually at the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Gamescom is the world's largest gaming event, with 370,000 visitors and 1,037 exhibitors from 56 ...

, Casual Connect, the External Development Summit, the Midwest Game Developers Summit, Sigma Play, the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo,

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

WonderCon WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film fan convention, convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and Wond ...

, and

. Ludlow was nominated for a

Hollywood Music in Media Award Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood ...

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 American video game composers 21st-century American composers Berklee College of Music alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Electronic-musician-stub