Windows 11 Notification Redesign

This was a project completed for the Soundscapes module at Edinburgh Napier.

Project Description:

This project involved redesigning the Windows 11 notifications in order to better communicate Windows functions. It was inspired by the lack of sound for basic interactions and the obnoxious nature of the sounds in others. It was originally posed as a Windows Feature update trailer but as the key aspect is the communicative nature of the sound any identifiers other than the actions were removed. Eg., title cards explaining each interaction

This project is a cut down version of my submission video, I may extend it further to feature sounds that didn’t make it into the original video.

Technical Description:

The project was created inside logic Pro using entirely first-party synths. This was in order to challenge me to further my understanding of audio synthesis.

It utilised several synthesiser plugins such as: EFM1, ESM, ES-2.

These along with basic midi notes and some other Apple effects plugins were all that was required to produce the sounds in the video.

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The Story of E. Rose

This is a game project I worked on for Distilled Productions. For this project I created audio assets for the game that the game designer could not create themself. These ranged from digital static sounds to notify players of errors to air lock venting sounds. To achieve these, I recorded sounds and mixed them with EMF recordings and contact microphone recordings to create all the sounds I provided. I then edited these in Reaper to add the post processing the sounds needed to convey the size of the players locations. Play the game: https://distilledproductions.itch.io/the-story-of-e-rose

Train Sim World 5: ScotRail Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street Redesign

This redesign is based upon the ScotRail eXpress: Edinburgh to Glasgow TSW5 DLC created by Rivet Games. With this project I aimed to gain a better understanding of the requirements of train recording. This was to attempt to gain some insight to the methods that are used to simulate the sound of the train in the game. I went out and recorded two lengths of the route over the course of a day, taking time in each station to search for sounds on the outside of the train only audible when idle or when departing. These were then edited to fit a pre-created video of gameplay. It was an interesting experience especially when trying to record clean audio on a commuter service! Software Used: Reaper Final Cut OBS

Navigational Weather System

This project is my honours project, the culmination of my honours project literature research and time at Edinburgh Napier. Project Description: This project aims to alleviate the growing trend of over reliance on UI as the method for conveying information in games. Inspirited greatly by the implementation of navigation in Ghost of Tsushima by Sucker Punch Production, 2020. Ghost of Tsushima game uses sound and animation in order to guide users to locations within the world. This is what I wish to build upon but remove the reliance on UI to guide the player. As while Ghost of Tsushima is not overly cluttered the majority of new open world game releases wish to convey so much information to the player the screen becomes cluttered. Technical Description: The project is a Unity asset store project that has been integrated with Wwise. The weather system was created and then sound designed using the Wwise Soundseed air, woosh and grain plugins. This project allowed me to le...

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