Weekly Update 19th-25th

-

 We done a lot this week, much around the subject of audio. It was a fun topic to learn and experiment with due to the given freedom over the levels of development included within it.

We started learning about Foley sounds and how people make certain sounds from everyday natural things. For example, rain could be either bacon sizzling or rice being shaken. Any one of these can be made just by using objects around us.

We as a class we’re set to find 10 sounds around the college without disturbing other classes. We all scoped the entire area. Some collected more than 10 such as I and pick out the best, whereas others kept it in that range.


I also messed around a bit more on flowlab looking around at other games on the site to see what was at the top. This gave me some insight on how I could possibly make a demo level/level more enjoyable than just some boring walk about coin picker.

Some other cool things were that when messing around with audio on some sites I have already given a link to on my blog, was that there were some interesting features that allowed the certain audio to be configured using effects. Using these effects allowed many more levels to be added to the foley sounds we provided, and by using just some knock on a hollow piece of wood could be turned into eerie footsteps in a horror game that provides depth to the surroundings.

On the weekend I played a super fun newly released game called Helldivers 2, and the graphics were magnificent. From lots of detail to weather to models to sounds. It had it all. The bit that really brought it together though was the sound effects they made for each type of bug and type of weapon. With the weapons, each round shot gave weight behind it giving it that deep quick fired shot. And when it game to the bugs or robots, each one had detailed sound effects, and when a certain weapon hit either one, the sound that came off it would correspond to the material of the skin/armour. The attention to detail was awesome and it was such an amazing game that you can recommend to anyone.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Online Software To Help With Character Design No.2

-
Image
RanGen.com : This software is incredible, I would use this regularly. It gives off loads of information for random characters and it has many more features than the last one I wrote about. I love that it gives so much about their appearance. It really gives way for concept art to be drawn of them. I really like the personality section due to its simplicity but yet effective use of many words to describe a person in a very short space. I love the detail it gives, who thinks about randomly generating 'personal status'? These guys. To even add a job with a satisfaction percentage takes much attention to detail. Love the idea of Marital status and how it shows their preference to gender. Shows that the people who made this took their time to think about the quality and the detail to offer. This is another feature I quite like. To add Religious views along with world and racial is an amazing feature to have as it makes thinking about characters views so much less time draining. I al
Read more

20th November - Dante

-
Image
 So far i have started an assignment Unit 3&4 - Understanding an Audience. i am at the moment focusing on 1.2 as i have done the research needed to think about how the two digital products advertise to their target audience. I chose Spotify and Canva as they are two very different products but they advertise very similarly. I explained what Canva is and how it's a products for designers trying to seek out easy but easy to professionalize their design. I wrote about how Spotify is a online music streaming service that provides recommendations for new songs through lots of use. It was really easy as the internet was there for me to do some secondary research to find out how Canva advertises and what Spotify does to keep its good reputation across the internet. I wrote about both their income and how they quickly rose to fame. I wrote about who their target audience is and how they advertise to their needs. Both target a variety but stay in a category. Spotify targets people who l
Read more

25th November Blog - Dante

-
Image
 While I was at home, I looked out my room and this gave me some creepy vibes when just looking down. This reminds me of abandoned houses in horror games what leave you at a hall  way waiting to be jump scared. It interested me on how any day to day image could turn into a horror show. I definitely like the atmosphere it created with the light being from where the camera is. It reminds me of fog, in the way that where you stand in the fog you can see where you stand but you cannot see up ahead giving that unknown element. In horror games like 'Slender-Man' it does the same feature where you can see up to a certain degree and that narrows the first person perspective giving that tension builder. Another picture I took was one of the outside when the sun was slowly setting the scene for people to get tired and sleep. It was nice view to see and a good time to capture it. I honestly liked the colour scheme the sun-setting gives off. Going from a nice bright sky to a dark, misty lo
Read more