Making Audio for a Godot Project in FMOD (godotfest2025)

As the last of the "big 3" engines still lacking an officially-supported FMOD integration plugin, Godot offers a unique working environment for sound designers and composers utilizing FMOD. In this talk, I would like to explore the advantages and disadvantages this presented when making music and SFX as a one-man audio department for the roguelike deckbuilder on a grid - Fogpiercer. This talk is primarily aimed at sound designers and composers looking to work on a Godot project in FMOD. In addition to this, the talk can also be informative for solo devs and programmers, since it also discusses topics of implementation. In this talk, I will go over the following: - what is FMOD (very brief overview) - why and when Godot native audio vs FMOD (team composition and size, game genre) - unique considerations for Fogpiercer - unique considerations with a 3rd party plugin - technical limitations we encountered - our approach to utilizing FMOD Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://pretalx.godotfest.com/godotfest-25/talk/CHMPFL/