Monday, March 30, 2009

5 Centric games for dynamic sound paper

The game idea I came up with is Rap and Rock imitator. There is a list of 5 games that I will discuss in my paper.

- Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 with Dance Mat
- Get on da Mic
- Rock Band 2
- Wii Music
- MTV Music Generator 3

Rock Band 2 is most relevant because my game has the idea of playing live rap and rock music with a crowd going wild. Rock Band 2 has the similar form to it and the crowd reacts to the music in the game. There will be no dancing going on in my game. Rock Band 2 doesn't have any dancing moves that the player does either. Both Rap and Rock imitator and Rock Band 2 focus on playing live music in order to get to a higher score or unlock more songs. I also wanted to focus on sounds that would be fantastic to hear and some interesting songs so that they can become catchy to the player and the radio.

Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 with Dance Mat is different from Rap and Rock imitator because the object of Dance Dance Revolution is that the avatar has to dance to the music that is being played in the game. This game also focuses on more fun ideas for the players to use. So more groups of party people will be playing DDR because they will enjoy the music coming from the video game. My game will teach people how to play hip hop and rock songs on the screen. It will be like the player is really playing a hip hop song live in real life. It's just a fantasy where you are the composer making excellent sounds for the crowd to hear.

Lamar

Monday, March 23, 2009

Foley Effects Project

For this project, I have decided to make 40 sounds using special equipment at home. Ideas behind this project were fighting sounds, alarm sounds, and some vocal sounds. The wind sounds were the most creative to me because the creation led to unique sounds that sounded like the wind but were edited to give some distinction between the actual wind and the wind on a computer. Five sounds that were the strongest are male zombies, windy day, helicopter alarm, sword fighting, and bow&arrow. These were the strongest because the sword fighting was close to sounding real but reminded me of an old classic karate movie back in the day. The bow&arrow had a echo effect to it to make it seem like the arrows hit the wall. The male zombies sound like they came from a video game. The helicopter alarm reminds me of a may day effect when a plane is crashing.

The two weakest sounds are the pistols from the Weapons file and the strong attacks from the Fighting file. The pistols were okay, but it needed some more work on the quality of sound. Maybe a background sound would make the pistols sound unique. The strong attacks sound is not so good in my own opinion because it involved more objects and people to make a legitimate sound. Overall, every other sound is great and I believe that these sounds can be used for a game in the future.

peoples_L_Sounds.zip

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Crazy Laughter Sound

This is my crazy laughter sound that is due this week. Make sure you check out this unique sound from me. Click on the link below to hear the file please!

Link

From ya boy Lamar