Unit 73: Sound for Computer Games

Starter Exercise – Upload to your blog when finished

 

 

a.    Listen to at least 5 different pieces of gaming music/FX

 

Why did the game maker use this music and its sound FX?

Did it work? If so or not, Why?

Would you use different music/sound FX and why?

 

b.    Research (on-line/journals in library)

Why is music and sound FX so important within games development? it isn't as long as the game is intresting enuth I dosnt need sound I play most of my games without sound

 

c.    What is waveform, (wavelength, amplitude, frequency); pitch; Hertz (Hz); decibel level (dB); sound generator (loudspeaker)?

away to Messer sound and other things

 

d.    What is Foley?
a sound that has been recored to be used as relistik sound in a movie or game

 

e.    What is Timbre?
timbre is what makes a particular musical sound different from another when they have the same pitch and loudness

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnkERYskGw
the start of oblivion they used this music to make you feel like something epic is coming up and it did work that music fits the game perfectly so I wouldn't replace it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A17oUv0E-N4
its the intro for age of mythology I makes you feel like a big epic battles going on first despair then the music changes when it starts to go there way to make you feel like yeah you winning I wouldn't replace it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uInmFU6JkU
its in a woods that you get lost in over and over again in the legend of Zelda it makes you feel like the game is trying to be playful with you even though you've probably spent 30 mins in this woods I wouldn't replace it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqbgncFCO0M
its the intro to borderlands it makes you feel like this isn't a safe place in a cowboy kind of world I wouldn't replace it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yptp1yCCRWk&list=PLBEDA635397C23509
the start of the starwars I makes you feel like something strange and space is going to go on I wouldn't replace it