I will be making use of my Zoom H1essential field recorder to capture real sounds that can be used in the game, such as footsteps on various materials, water splashes, and other things around my house, such as extractor fans, large garage doors, and even sounds from my car.

I have now transferred the files from my recorder to my PC. I then placed them into Ableton where I gave them appropriate names, and then chopped them up into the appropriate lengths, isolating the desired sounds from each file. I also used EQ and compression where I felt necessary as well as some effects.

I will be using synthesis to create the sounds that I was otherwise unable to capture with my recorder, such as gunshots. I achieved this using the white noise on the analog synth and messing with the envelopes and adding effects until I achieved the desired sounds. I ended up with an SMG sound, a pistol sound and a reverberating gunshot sound used when the player hits the start button.

Another thing that the game will need are little vocal samples of the player jumping, getting hurt, and dying. I will be recording these vocals into Ableton using a Samson Q2U XLR microphone, and will be recorded within a small room. The room resulted in the vocals sounding somewhat boxy, but due to the vocals in the game being minimal, I didn't feel that it would be neccessary to look for a studio just for this. These same vocals will be used for the enemies, albeit pitched up for variety.

Lastly the game will need a soundtrack. For the main menu screen, I wanted there to be some creepy ambient sounds to help build up anticipation before the player starts the game. I threw together some wind samples, glass breaking samples and cymbals to create an unsettling atmosphere for the player to sit in before he starts the game.

Now we also need a theme for the game as the player fights his way through the enemies. I have recently been getting into a genre called breakcore, and I thought that the hyper-fast genre would suit this game perfectly. In the song I made, I made extensive use of various samples that you would typically hear in the jungle genre, such as pads, chords and stabs. There is also a section of the song which fits more with the chiptune genre, with harsher sounding saw waves and square waves being found here, before looping back to the breakcore section.

The developer has reached a point where he is happy to release the game for others to test. I have recieved a copy, and have contacted others to fill out a sheet where they can test out all of the sounds and report wether or not they are working, as well as sections where they can comment on the sounds if needed.