May 5 2011 - week 32

Over the time around Christmas we began a sub course into sound in video games. This was hosted by Matt Applegate a former student, over the weeks he showed us how clever use of music can add more than the sum of its parts to the game. An example of this was Banjoo Kazoie, which used the same track but changed the instruments used, another is L4D which used subtle sound effects to warn of oncoming dangers. This knowledge will probably help later down the line when we are developing our own game.