Project Showcase: Emergency 5 - Finally in stores!

Emergency 5 is finally released!

It is a simulation game developed by Promotion Software GmbH and published by Deep Silver. I had the chance to join the team as the Sound and Music Supervisor during the last 4 months of the development process. It was an interesting experience to work there and with dynamedion, who created the music and sounds and ANAKAN, who produced the voice files.

In EMERGENCY 5 you partake charge of thrilling rescue missions on three gigantic and detailed maps. Build a variety of vehicles, recruit specialists to your team and make sure that everyone is at the right place at the right time. 

If you ever dreamed of being chief of operations, either for the fire department, the police or paramedics, you have come to the right place. Your strategy will determine whether your brave men and women can end the raging chaos.

The position of the Sound and Music Supervisor is not a familiar term for most people working on games here in Germany and on bigger projects (AAA) it would also not fit the department and position structure of games. But in this special case, it describes best what my job in this particular project was, as I entered at a late stage of the project when the game design had already made some decisions on the functionality of the music and the sounds. So I had to elaborate on those decisions and complete and sometimes rework them, get all the audio that was needed, provide the processed data and check that it is implemented correctly - concerning music, sounds, cutscene stems and also all the voice files. It was a pleasure to work with dynamedion "from the other side", as I usually work as a composer and sound designer too.

I hope you like the game, I actually had fun testing it during the development process!