Werner Mendizabal
Werner Mendizabal is a full-time game developer, software engineer, artist, and musician building open-source audio tools for Godot. He is the creator of godot-csound, godot-lv2-host, godot-vst3-host, and godot-distrho, projects focused on real-time synthesis, plugin hosting, and interactive audio.
Session
Game audio is often treated as simple playback: trigger a sound, loop music, adjust volume, and move on. But interactive games can go much further. Sound can respond to player input, gameplay state, animation, physics, environment, and musical structure in real time.
This talk explores how to build interactive audio systems in Godot through a practical demonstration of sound that changes dynamically in response to gameplay. The demo will highlight several approaches to interactive audio, including procedural synthesis, plugin-based effects, and adaptive audio behavior.
Behind the demo is a collection of open-source Godot extensions: godot-csound for real-time synthesis, godot-lv2-host and godot-vst3-host for hosting audio plugins, and godot-distrho for using Godot itself as a framework for building audio plugins.
Attendees will come away with a broader view of what audio in Godot can be: not just static assets triggered by gameplay, but living systems that react, transform, and become part of the player experience.