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The Art of Immersion: Why Sound Design in Gaming Matters More Than Ever

I still remember the first time a video game made me flinch. It was not a jump scare from a monster rounding a corner. It was the sound of a floorboard creaking behind me in a dark corridor, a sound so precisely placed that I twisted in my chair, certain someone was in the room. That moment taught me something that years of playing and studying games have only deepened: sound design in gaming is not a background layer. It is the invisible hand that shapes how we feel, how we

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