Level 3 games design

Unit 73 sound for computer games

P1

Music in video games is very important without music or sound its hard to immerse yourself in, try playing a game that requires sound to create an atmosphere like resident evil 7, it just isnt played how its meant ot be, a horror game that requires sound to set the scene and put the player on edge cant produce that if you play without the sound. 
Below are a list of games and how they make me feel.

A    5 different Mood and atmosphere game sounds

Outlast: scary, intense, makes me feel on edge, ingrowses you in the gameplay wanting you to play on.  amazing atmosphere music:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p19RO5368pY

Destiny: heroic, powerful, gives me Goosebumps. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvwDiV2K_0g

Fallout 4: Old time, powerful, intense sounds, gives you feelings for the game, makes you want to play more, the sound can go as far as to make you addicted to playing it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flOKKJfXRQM

Assassin’s creed 2: one of my favourite sound tracks in a video game ever, make me feel emotional that new games can’t be as good as they used to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iriiZOeInDg

Mini ninjas: a much underrated game one of my childhood favourites, Chinese instrumental music, warm inside, nostalgia

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRW8fTlIZjU

      B    Research (on-line) journals in the library:- music is very important in games as it sets the mood and atmosphere, some games rely on there music to intensify it or create a sad scene for example one of my games I listened to the sound effects of called Outlast is very dependent on sound as its a horror game and the whole point of the game is to scare you 

      C   What is waveform: the waves of audio available to human ears, showing the sound length, waveform means a graphical representation of the shape and form of a signal moving in a gaseous, liquid, or solid medium. For sound, the term describes a depiction of the pattern of sound pressure variation

       D   What is a Foley: a Foley artist is a job where you create sounds for a game but with real world things for example walking on gravel in the game you might need that real sound so you get someone called a Foley artist to recreate it in real life

 E   What is timbre: Medical Definition of timbre: the quality given to a sound by its overtones: as a: the resonance by which the ear recognizes and identifies a voiced speech sound the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument.

"a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre"