Giganto Redesign

This is a artefact design I undertook to stretch myself during my personal identity through portfolio development module.

Project Description:

This project I was to update a portfolio piece, however, being interested in creating a new showreel for the new year. I requested permission to undertake a new project instead. This project was to be a redesign of Giganto the first boss from Sonic Frontiers (2022).

The reason for this choice is that is allowed me to improve three areas from my previous showreel. These area's being monsters, robots and weapons. The clip I was aiming to do a better job than was a gears of war clip that was the last minute of my sound design one module.

That clip faced criticism for the lack of sonic interest or limited range of sounds produced. This was unacceptable to me so I wished to avoid this redesign being described as such.

I recorded all the sounds for this project myself at home.

Technical Description:

This project was developed in Reaper the industry standard daw, it was my first project in the digital audio workstation. This meant learning how standard sound design tool were implemented within Reaper. I utilised the synth Pendulate by Newfangled Audio for several sounds such as the UI and lasers. This is a free synth with lots of presets that is easy to learn.

I also used two new microphones for this project. A EM (or EMF) microphone to. capture digital noise sounds and a contact microphone to create the electrical elements and some metallic sounds.

Skills Utilised:

Reaper

Audio Synthesis

Appropriate Microphone Use

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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