Valter Alves
Licinio Roque
ABSTRACT
In the context of an initiative to empower non-expert practitioners to perform sound design in games, we have been working on a collection of design patterns and in a deck of cards that function as tokens to those patterns.
The deck serves both practitioners and researchers. Practitioners may appreciate a presentation of potential sound explorations in a format that is literally handy, with no need to be familiar with the formalism of design patterns. Researchers who are willing to evolve such patterns may explore the usage of cards as part of a setting designed to be auditable.
This paper presents the results of a first experiment with the deck in a scenario of a game design session. The goal is to evidence information supporting foremost enhancements to the deck itself, to the process in which it has being explored and audited, and to the inscribed collection of patterns.
References
- Alexander, C. 1979. The timeless way of building. Oxford University Press, NY.Google Scholar
- Alves, V. and Roque, L. 2010. A Pattern Language for Sound Design in Games. In Audio Mostly 2010, 88--95. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Alves, V. and Roque, L. 2011. An Inspection on a Deck for Sound Design in Games. In Audio Mostly 2011. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Alves, V. and Roque, L. 2011. Guidelines for sound design in computer games. In Game sound technology and player interaction: Concepts and developments, M. Grimshaw, Ed. IGI Global.Google Scholar
- Björk, S. and Holopainen, J. 2004. Patterns in Game Design. Charles River Media, Inc., Rockland, MA, USA.Google Scholar
- Borchers, J. 2001. A pattern approach to interaction design. John Wiley Sons, NY. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Deutsch, S. 2003. Music for Interactive Moving Pictures. In Soundscape: The School of Sound lectures 1998--2001, L. Sider, Ed. London: Wallflower Press.Google Scholar
- Erl, T. 2009. SOA Design Patterns. Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River/US. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Frauenberger, C. 2009. Auditory Display Design. PhD thesis. Queen Mary University.Google Scholar
- Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R., and Vlissides, J. 1995. Design patterns: Elements of reusable object-oriented software. Addison Wesley, Reading, MA. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Halskov, K. and Dalsgård, P. 2006. Inspiration Card Workshops. In Proceedings of DIS '06, University Park, PA, 26--28 June, pp. 2--11, ACM, NY. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Heylighen, F. 1992. Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary perspective. In Proceedings of CSR '92, Singapore, p. 3--10, World Scientific Pub.Google Scholar
- Holowka, A. 2009. Aquaria Piano Jam -- Alec Holowka's Watershed Soundtrack Release, 'Sound Current' interview by Jeriaska. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2009/11/sound_current_aquaria_piano_ja.phpGoogle Scholar
- IndieGames.com. 2010. The Indie Game Movement. http://www.indiegames.com/what.phpGoogle Scholar
- Kuchera, B. 2011. Feral developers: why game industry talent is going indie. Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/experience-going-indie.ars/1Google Scholar
- Lucero, A. and Arrasvuori, J. 2010. PLEX Cards: a source of inspiration when designing for playfulness. In Proc. of Fun and Games 2010. ACM. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Peck, N. 2001. Beyond the library: Applying film postproduction techniques to game sound design - lecture. In GDC 2001, San Jose, CA, 20--24 March.Google Scholar
- Schell, J. 2008 The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses. Morgan Kaufmann. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Tidwell, J. 2005. Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design, O'Reilly Media. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
A deck for sound design in games
Comments