Video Game Music overview for Universite de Montreal class on music and the moving image.

1. Game audio Karen Collins

6. What’s wrong?

9. Interactive Audio: Footsteps Enemy music cue

11. Adaptive Audio Change in music day to night Wolf, crow

14. History

17. Sales, marketing and branding

19. Structural reinforcement

21. Immersion/suspension of disbelief

23. Semiotic Preparatory Function

26. Narrative: correct response

28. Emotional

32. Problems (and some solutions) of Interactive Audio in Games

33. Mixing: Problems: -too many sounds -no “post production” mixing -unpredictable timings : results in “muddy”, clash of sounds

40. (1) Solution: transitions: Cross fade

43. Multi-player music

47. Variable tempo

48. Variable tempo

49. Variable pitch

50. Variable Pitch

51. Variable volume

66. Electroplankton

67. Rez

68. Vib Ribbon

71. Non-dynamic, non-diegetic sound

73. Adaptive non-diegetic sound

75. Interactive non-diegetic sound

77. Non-dynamic diegetic sound

79. Adaptive Diegetic Sounds

81. Interactive Diegetic Sounds