Marie Havemann - Music & Sound for Games

23/10/2023

I’m excited to share that we are expanding the Audio Department at Sandbox Interactive! We are looking for an Experienced Audio Designer to join our team. The new person will be working directly with me on creating Audio and maintaining the quality of the Audio for Albion Online. You can apply here:

Do you love bringing people together to create something great? Gaming runs in your blood? Then we might be looking for you. We are Sandbox Interactive, an established game studio in the heart of Berlin. Since 2012, we have been developing the core online game Albion Online. The game is the first tr...

19/08/2023

Hey friends! Next week tuesday at I will give a talk about music design which is packed with tips on how to approach music decisions for your game. I always tailor my talks to the issues that I hear my Dev peers struggling with and for which it is tough to find answers elsewhere - so I am super excited about this one! It will happen at 12 PM on tuesday on Stage 6 - see you there 😊

I will also be at after and am looking forward to catching up with everyone!

17/07/2023

Exciting news! Today, we released the game “Sticky Business” along with the official soundtrack! 🎶 Get ready to immerse yourself in the chill and vibey world of Lofi music while crafting cute stickers and learning about your customers' stories. 🌟It was a wonderful experience collaborating with Spellgarden Games and Assemble Entertainment, since the team was incredibly friendly and had a distinct vision of what they want. Since I love creating lofi music in my spare time as a way to relax, it's also exciting to reveal this aspect of myself. If you want to relax playing a cozy game or want to listen to some cozy beats to lighten your mood while working, check it out!

15/01/2023

I'm excited to share my very first tutorial videos on adaptive music systems! 🎶 I combined branching and layering with transitions to create dynamic music and used the music of Albions Corrupted Dungeons as an example. After presenting this system at GACO 2021 and STC 2022, the tutorials are now available for anyone looking to dig deeper into FMOD or Wwise or trying to figure out which of them to choose for their project. You'll need a basic understanding of FMOD or Wwise to profit from them the most though.

It’s my first time doing tutorial videos so they are a bit chaotic, but doing these takes a lot of time and I thought it’s better to have them out there a bit messy, rather than postponing it another year, right?

Let me know what you think! And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Also: In the background you see my cozy new studio since I relocated :)

07/12/2022

Amidst the chaos of relocating my studio and my life „Beyond the Veil“, our latest Update, got released. The team outdid themselves and created an incredibly beautiful new world within Albion Online. It was a pleasure to work on the audio of the feature and the music for the mists as well as the city „Brecilien“.
Today the music is released to all mayor streaming plattforms, so if you want to treat your ears with some mystic and orchestral fantasy music, give it a listen - it's sure to take you on a journey!
I will put the link to the lovely news article in the links and the link to all platforms as well.

Every time we release an Update for Albion there is so much I would want to say and then can’t find the words for when trying to pour it into a post on social media. Maybe it boils down to one thing: I am very grateful to be part of such an incredible team that I trust and who trust in me, no matter how big the endeavours get that we are setting out for!

22/08/2022

I had the pleasure of working on two lovely indie titles that will be exhibited a and   - If you‘re there you need to check out Belonging and ! And please say Hi if you bump into me :) - I will be there until Friday

28/06/2022

Next saturday I will be part of a panel about writing music for games at Gamevention in Neumünster. It‘s my first time at Gamevention and I am looking forward to listening to the other talks as well and checking out the event in general! Who else will be there?

14/06/2022

Tomorrow Johannes (Senior Coder) and I will be part of Audiokinetics Live Stream, where we talk about the & setup & project of Albion Online ! This is the first time that we show the wwise project and your rare chance to also get to know Johannes and his fantastic work. I'm excited for tomorrow!