The long-awaited responses to your Q&A! This is an ABRIDGED version of a full conversation between Anne and Wil—if you want the full extended discussion, make sure you check out Hug House on Patreon. Monthly support of $10+/month gets access to all of our bonus content, plus early episode releases and more!

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

This episode was written, recorded, and sound designed by Wil Williams. It was produced and transcribed by Anne Baird.

With VALENCE coming to a close, we're bringing you the final episode of Scoring Magic... for now. Keep following us in the usual places, and hopefully you'll hear more soon.

But first we've got at least one more VALENCE-focused episode to do: a Q&A! Send us your questions to our email, our Twitter, our Tumblr, our Patreon or Patron Discord... anywhere you can find us, we'll take your questions! The due date for sending us those questions is April 28th, 2023.

Credits: This episode was written, recorded, and sound designed by Wil Williams. It was produced and transcribed by Anne Baird.

Episode Notes

In this episode of Scoring Magic, Wil goes into their sound design process step by step and shares how they learned this finicky, complicated, detailed aspect of making an audio drama.

Mentioned in the Episode:

• FreeSound.org
• ASoundEffect.com
• Sonniss Game Audio Archive

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Credits:

• "Budding," "The Gold Lining," "And Add" by Broke for Free Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
• "Fluff a Duck" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This week, Hug House brings you an update on everything we've been working on. And then... another update on everything we've been working on. And then...

Credits:

• Written and recorded by Anne Baird (and surprise guest Wil Williams).
• Edited and sound designed by Wil Williams.
• Music by Komiku and Kevin MacLeod.

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

We're neck-deep into production for season 2, and we've learned, ummmm, a lot about how to make an audio drama since season 1. Anne walks us through all of the changes we've made since season 1, and answers some of your questions.

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-mag

As Hug House gears up for VALENCE's second season, we kick off Scoring Magic by talking about what a weird time it's been creating on 2020.

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

Last year, we left off having just barely debuted Season 1 of VALENCE. Since then, we've been hard at work on Season 2 . . . or, at least, as hard at work as 2020 has let us be. What has it been like creating in 2020? How have we adjusted? How have we failed and triumphed--and what does that all mean for Hug House, VALENCE, and other creative works up our sleeves?

We'll talk about all of this and more in Season 2 of Scoring Magic, coming January 2nd, 2021.

Season 1 of VALENCE is DONE! We DID IT! But just like when we release the first episode of VALENCE, we feel . . . weird. In this episode of Scoring Magic, we talk wrapping the season, we look back on early episodes of Scoring Magic, and we answer some of your questions!

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

It's a very NSFW one, pals! And also, it's got VALENCE S1E11 spoilers, so make sure you listen to that first! In this episode, I talk to Josh Rubino (Liam) and John Westover (Nico) about conveying "fuck energy." But also, we talk about modern art, control issues, and how people convey their trauma.

Check out Cornelia Parker's "Mass (Colder Darker Matter)," the art piece discussed in this episode, here:

• The Phoenix Art Museum: https://phxart.org/arts/mass-colder-darker-matter-monton-materia-mas-oscura-mas-fria/
• A video on another Cornelia Parker piece, just "Cold Dark Matter": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTvMxPl3xA&t=35s

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

These last few episodes of VALENCE have been rough, so we decided to share one of the best things about making VALENCE: our goofy actors. Enjoy this look into our bloopers vault.

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

Credits:

• "Fluff a Duck" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Episode Notes

We've mentioned before that episode 7 of VALENCE was written in Walt Disney World, and you may have noticed some extra credits in that episode. Join Wil and Anne, and special guest AJ Goldman, as they tell the story behind writing the benefit in Cost Benefit Analysis.

AJ is a phenomenal artist and we would love for you to check out her work on Twitter: @GoldenRetreevee!

About Scoring Magic

Scoring Magic is presented by Hug House Productions. You can support us for behind-the-scenes details and early previews of upcoming projects on Patreon.

Support Scoring Magic by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

Support Scoring Magic by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/scoring-magic

Find out more at https://scoring-magic.pinecast.co