Shonen Idle Z – Game Sound Design
junio 2016

Sound design for the HTML5 game “Shonen Idle Z”, that includes the design, foley recording, sound library research, and audio implementation.

I was working with Zakos Games at the time and we had this new game in Beta access, with music implemented but no sound effects, so I got down to work to complete the sound design.

SFX
The look and feel is manga in pixel art, and the theme of the game is about a customizable (by player) hero character that fights to gain experience and some other points while is traveling along a map.
Sound effects are a mixture of real world sounds (fight sounds, wood stick hits, small drums, knife…) and 8 bits arcade sounds style.

TASKS

  • Sound Design: Sounds effects design, creation and specific adaptation for the game purpose.
  • Audio recording (I improvised a small soundproofing-tent in my living room, for the recording session… true story).
  • Audio Programing: Audio logic design and implementation for the game in HTML5 (Typescript).

Well, I had fun, that is for sure, the project was small due that the game had just a few events for triggering sounds, so it was nice and easy.

I keep some pictures about the “improvised soundproofing-tent in my living room”, specifically when I was recording sounds for the “autoplay” button, that automatically choose the enemy to fight with. I have to say I was really surprise because the best sound was made by rubbing a kitchen knife with a trowel… trowel, scraper, palette knife are the best, they have this clean and veeery long metallic harmonics, I loved it.

Skills used in this project

Sound Design

Audio Recording

Audio Programming

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