April 9, 2024 In class

• Think about theme or setting - cyberpunk/futuristic?
• Maybe think about doing rhythms and melodies
• Start with background, stock music
• When building gameplay system, strongly recommend building in testing for latency between system playing sound and player input (especially because our game relies on sound and rhythm) - helps see latency between different machines testing
  • depends on whether the rhythm is local (maybe have personal headphones) or if it’s dependent on all other players (could have one speaker with personal speakers muted)
  • initially just work having each player react to their individual sound on their machine, can improve it much later in the quarter
• Weekly meetings: Tuesday 10am, weekly report due Monday evenings
• do big merges together 🙂
• implement some branch protection, code reviews?

Group Discussion after meeting

• Adaptive audio - music changes over the course of a boss fight
  • vertical dimension = add more instruments
  • horizontal dimension = advance to next section / ‘phase’ of music
• Musical ideas
  • For now, thinking of using the bear as the boss
  • Genre/Vibe
    • Fantasy/Medieval
    • Futuristic
  • Instrumentation
    • Drum
    • Bass
    • Strings (relatively slow attack, sound bowed)
    • Synth (relatively quick attack, sound plucked)

Music Table

Art Todos

• [x] draft some images of concept art / mood board
• [x] Draft a futuristic track April 11, 2024
• [ ] Draft a fantasy track April 8, 2024