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Competition Sound Category

1. Soundtrack

Your submissions should be entered before the start of the coding challenge, 12th June 2007.

a. In game music

Select from one of the following categories.

i. Title screen ‘attract' music; 3mins in length
ii. In game music, 3 pieces each providing a different mood. Each piece 1 min in length providing a total of 3 mins of music.

Your music should be submitted as compressed audio files (such as mp3 or wma). Each piece should be designed to loop

b. Game sound effects

You should provide one or more sounds for each of the following game events. You are encouraged to be creative in your interpretation of those events but try to be consistent across all events.

  • Player move
  • Player attack
  • Player injured
  • Player dead
  • Enemy move
  • Enemy attack
  • Enemy injured
  • Enemy dead
  • Game start
  • Game end
  • Bonus achieved
  • Ambient sound

You should also provide a single 20 second composition, using your sound effects, that presents the game play experience the effects could provide. This composition will be used to hear how well your effects work together.