Week 10

This week was important for us to start bringing things together for our project. My job was to collect all audio for the game. As this is a game that is aimed for age four to eight year olds, we are aware that they will not all be able to read yet, so they will be unable to read the instructions, therefore will really struggle with the game play.

To help this problem we have decided to create audio for the instructions also, I worked alongside Marcin this week, as he was in charge of the dialogue for the game. After his research he constructed dialogue for our game Tiny Farm, he then sent this script to be and I recorded it.

Script for Tiny Farm

I used a H1 Zoom to record the audio for our game. I used a mans voice for the recordings so they would fit in the the famers voice. I got him to use an encouraging voice to help encourage the children through the game, even when they fail to complete the level.

These will be put into the game at a later stage.

H1 Zoom recorder

Recordings

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This week we made some progress on the development of our game. What I done this week was source audio that we could find throughout the game. I got the audio from a few different websites;

https://www.zapsplat.com/sound-effect-category/animals/

https://www.freesoundeffects.com/free-sounds/pigs-10067/

http://soundbible.com/1662-Farm.html

I got an animal noise for each animal that has been created for our game, so when the animal is clicked on the appropriate noise will be played.

I also found a fam ambiance which will be played when you are on the home screen to set the atmosphere and give the player a feel for the game.

Some of the audio files so far.

I have also been looking into background music for the game, and have yet to find something appropriate so I will finalise that this week. 

I will be meeting with the team again this week, Marcin is writing some text to help players in the game and we plan on recording these messages, as the players of our games will be very young and some may be unable to read. This will help these players. These will be recorded this week.

Game Design Document

Cartoon Farm Animals

I have teamed up with Esmee MacPherson, Nicole Goodman, Emma Byrne, Nhi Thai, Robyn Mulhall and Marcin Grabicki for this project. We plan on making an E-learing game aimed at four to eight year olds. Our original plan was to create a game with multiple different subjects to choose from. However after some research we realised that we have to be more realistic with the time that we have, and we have decided to make a maths based game.

We decide that we want the theme of our game to be based on a farm, as it will look colourful and appealing to kids as they will have learned about all different animals. Some of the games will include such things as counting shapes or matching up animals.

We have decided that we want to make this game as an app for an iPad because that is the most common device within children these days.

This week we all made the Game Design Document for our game, we each took a section and researched it and wrote about that in the document.

My section was sound and audio fx, so I looked into different sound effects that would help make the game more enjoyable for the child playing, we will have different animal noises corresponding with the animal. There will also be light and cheerful background music in the game.

Two games that we were inspired by for our game are Animal Crossing and Leap Frog.

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