Sound Effects Design

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Description

Design of movement, enemy and atmospheric sounds provides a more immersive experience for the player, giving character to the world around them. Sound effects relating to UI elements, environmental interactions and checkpoints (eg, winning or losing) will be added into the game. The implementation will involve researching similar genre games to see how their sound design helps to express the environment, before creating our own effects. User testing will determine the suitability of the effects before their final implementation into the game. We endeavour to implement the following sound effects:

Game Sounds	Interactive Sounds	Combat Sounds
Winning a level	Picking up buffs & debuffs	Robot inflicting damage on the player (swinging arm)
Losing a level	UFO inflicting damage on the player (beam)
Pausing the game
Clicking menu buttons

Sub-feature / Components

• Research into similar genres of video game & sound production
• Design initial sounds
• User testing to determine suitability of sounds
• Implementation into final product

Examples

• Game Sounds: When the player interacts with the UI, certain sounds will occur.
• Interactive Sounds: When the player interacts with the world around them, certain sounds will occur
• Combat Sounds: When the player engages in combat, certain sounds will occur.

Milestones

• [x] Create initial wiki page (Sept. 17)
• [x] Research into other games & their sound design (Sept. 20)
• [x] Design Game Sounds (Sept. 23) (#117) @Su-LAN
  • [x] Winning a level
  • [x] Losing a level
  • ~Pausing the level~
  • [x] Pressing menu buttons (#103) @WendyW16
    • ~Complete user testing~
    • ~Update relevant wiki pages~
• [x] Design Interactive Sounds (Sept. 27)
  • [x] Picking up buffs & debuffs
    • [x] Complete user testing
    • [x] Update relevant wiki pages
• [x] Add music to the game (Sept. 29) (#117) @Su-LAN
  • [x] Main Menu Music
  • [x] Level One Music
• [x] Implement sounds into the final game (Oct. 3)
• [x] Add new changes to game Wiki (Oct. 5)

Completion Deadline: Oct. 5

Extras

• Design Combat Sounds: Combat sounds will include;
  • Robot attacking
  • UFO beam

Documentation

• Sound Effects wiki page

Members

• Jazmin (@default-jamc)
• Niko (@n1ko4fun)
• Ranee (@raneechu)
• Su (@Su-LAN)
• Wendy (@WendyW16)

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[23/09] Changelog: Combat sounds was moved to an Extra and Main Menu & Level Music was moved to a Milestone. This swap was made as there is the potential for more enemies to be added into the game yet, and we felt it was more appropriate to create sound effects for an already-completed feature first.

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[02/10] Changelog:

• The layout of the Extras listing was changed so that the extras don't contribute to the total amount of tasks in the Feature.
• The #103 task was linked to the 'Pressing Menu Buttons' sub-task

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