Partner:
Streamline Studios / Virtual Toys

Shipping Date:
To be announced

Our primary focus for this project was to deliver the highest possible quality content and from day one we took the approach of specifying what we wanted and then overcoming the technical challenges to achieve this.

In practical terms this has meant that, for us at Streamline Sound, we had to deal with an asset budget of 4 MB for all music and sound design. In other words, with over 200 sounds specified in the documentation and multiple levels requiring musical variations, this was not going to be easy!

With the sound design we had to be very, very careful about what we recorded, how we recorded it and how we treated the final integration. Instead of creating 200 individual files, which would have taken us way over budget, we analyzed each sound for its component parts so that we could use these in the middleware solution (XACT, in this case) to create multiple cues from limited source files.

Fortunately, this has worked out well and has left us with some room to maneuver for the music track. Again, we faced a problem. How do we cover multiple levels and gameplay in each level of at least 5 minutes duration and yet stay under the +/- 1.5 MB left in the asset budget? The solution was to create an interactive score based on a rhythmic underscore--allowing some variations--and then scoring individual melodies and harmonies for the characters themselves. Again we are back to a code solution, using it to assign playback of the melodies against the underscore based on code dependencies. Relating this to some of the level specific sound gives us almost infinite variety in the musical score.

In other words, the character of the game music changes depending on which characters you choose for your team, which level you choose and how you actually play the game.

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