Boo's There?

Role(s): Sound Lead
Technologies Used: C#, Unity 2D, Wwise, Yarn Spinner, Ableton Live
Developed for: Student Organization
June 2023 - Dec. 2023
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Responsibilities:

Adaptive Music: Deployed a 6-layer vertical music system in Wwise that adapts to the player's level progression, creating a gradually intensifying gameplay experience
Text Dialogue Audio: Implemented a dialogue blip system utilizing Wwise that plays unique sounds for each letter typed for each in-game character, leading to effective communication of character personalities

Debugging & Troubleshooting: Effectively communicated with a team of 10+ engineers to identify and resolve critical audio bugs in Wwise and Unity, resulting in a more stable build
Mentorship: Hosted group and individual Wwise and Ableton workshops and wrote Wwise documentation detailing basic Wwise functionality for a team of 6 sound designers

Catch monsters hidden amongst trick-or-treaters on Halloween night. Interrogate visitors based on suspicious quirks of their appearance. Appease kids by giving them candy, and make sure not to anger their parents! Pick through the hordes of sugar-high children and identify monsters using their weaknesses. See right through ghosts with a flashlight and make vampires gag with unappetizing garlic before trapping them in your patented monster-proof cage.

Animalese-esque Dialogue Blips

Inspired by Animal Crossing's fictional animalese language. In Unity, in an OnCharacterTyped() function in conjunction with Yarn Spinner's typewriter effect, Unity would send the character typed and the NPC who spoke it to Wwise through Wwise Switches. Using that information, Wwise would retrieve the sound for that character corresponding to that NPC and play it, creating the illusion of animalese.

To support the player's objective in differentiating between monsters and kids, in Wwise, monster dialogue blips would be pitched to be lower and less fluctuating to sound less humanlike while kid dialogue blips would fluctuate in pitch in a higher range.