Music and Sound

1. Music and Sound Importance

2. LA Noire

3. Dangerous Streets

4. Types of Sound and Music • Diegetic • Hear what the player is hearing • Nondiegetic • Player in game cannot hear

5. Diegetic • Brings video game world to you • How it’s done for music • Jukebox • Car stereo • Record player • singing • Variable volume

6. Non Diegetic • Brings your world into the videogame • Use of popular music in videogames • Artists making music for videogames • Video game music remixes

7. How do we classify sounds in games? • The IEZA model stream explosion foreboding HUD

8. What Music is Doing • Expresses a feeling or emotion • Communicates narrative • Suspense • Excitement • Communicates meta-narrative • Perception of horror or beauty

9. Early Game Music • 8/16-bit music • Video Game Genre • Repetitive • Lack Lyrics • Limited texture Influenced the popular style, “chiptunes.”

11. Programmatic Music • Music as a narrative • Several approaches • Activity-Based • Illustrative • Background Music • Exists as art outside of the game • Notable Composers • Nobuo Uemastu (Final Fantasy) • Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger/Cross) • Hans Zimmer(Modern Warfare 2)

13. Ludic Music • Music as a game element. • Utilizes interactive nature of the game. • Degrees of ludic elements • Use in gameplay • Guidance • Musical queues • Challenge • Music Puzzles • Pitch Recognition • Reward • Impact on the music?

14. Rez

15. Adaptive Music • Interactive Medium • Aleatoric Music • Generative • Non-Deterministic • Algorithmic • Actions influence music • Diegetic sounds dynamically compose music • Player become a creator. • Music becomes inseparable from the game.

16. Flower