Meeting 8
MC: Rafa
Tomorrow: Victor
LVL2
Work session
Progress Presentation on Friday!
LVL1
Game proposal
Completion time: approx. 1 week (5 meetings)
Write a proposal for an independent game you would like to build with Construct. Include a visual aid in your document — this can be a character sketch or a level design sketch.
The visual aid can be drawn on paper and photographed, or you can use digital tools like Piskel or Sketchpad
An example: Adriana
Game music composition
"If you remember in Space Invaders, you know, as the ships started to come down, the aliens, and as they got closer and closer, the sound got faster and faster. Now, what the game programmers did was that they took the person's heart rate, and as they're getting closer and closer, people would start to panic. Now they'd do the same studies without the sound, and the people wouldn't panic as much. And it goes to show and prove how significant audio and music are."
—Tommy Tallarico (video game composer)
In the old days:
Today:
This gets into the mechanics of how video game soundtracks work, psychologically: