Sounds and Music

Our game still needed music so I found two tracks by Kevin MacaCleod. Both of these tracks were Jungle themed and had bongo drums in them. They were both very appropriate so I put them on drop box for Lucas to choose from since Jenny liked them both. I also found a bongo drums soundtrack of 34 seconds on freesound which we decided to loop and use in the screens, so that there was a point of difference from the game and the screens but they were still related.

As part of the interim feedback we were told that it would be rally good to have ridiculous sound effects. We had talked about getting children to voice our effects and this feedback really enforced the idea.

To get these sound effects Jenny and I made a list of all the effects we would need for the game by going through a flow diagram of screens I had made. We got out a microphone and camera and recorded ourselves making sound effects. I then cut these into soundbite and exported them into .wavs to use in the game until we got proper children to make the effects.

This came when Jenny and I caught the bus to Seatoun to do both sound recording and user/market testing. The children were Jenny's cousins who are 7, 7 and 9.

We sat in a circle and I operated the microphone. Jenny would say what we wanted the kids to say then each kid would say the word or phrase and then they would all say it together. We went through the list three times to get lots of choice for the game. We also realized we were missing sounds while we were there so we got the kids to do sounds for that too.