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FIT3172 Sonics
Assignment 3: Producing an Immersive Spatial Audio Environment
In this assignment you will design the audio for an immersive scene in Unity. A Unity project containing a complete scene but with no audio has been created for you (A3 Audio Environment (Unity Project)). Imagine this is a playable prototype for an upcoming game pitch, and you have the task of designing the sound. The game studio is still unsure what the look and feel of the game should be, so your job is to propose and create a sound design that captures a specific genre and style, which will be used to inspire the visual design.
Your project will use a combination of recorded audio and sounds you create yourself. You are encouraged to make use of the various techniques you’ve learned in studios, including Foley, synthesis, field recordings and effects (reverb, filtering, etc.).
You can navigate through the game environment in 1st Person perspective. Minor adjustments to the scene’s lighting and effects in order to better fit your chosen genre are permissible but should be used sparingly and discussed with your tutor in advance.
Statement on the use of Generative AI for assessments in this unit: Generative AI tools cannot be used for any assessments in this unit. In this unit, you must not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to generate any materials or content in relation to your assessment.
Requirements
- Genre and style: You are encouraged to be creative, and design your own style for the scene, but this should be consistent with the genre you set. Explain these in your documentation.
- Sound creation: Your composition should include a variety of sounds you create yourself. This includes both digitally generated sounds using VST synthesisers (e.g. Helm) or hardware synthesisers, and effects created using Foley. You will use the FMOD sound engine to manage your audio within Unity. Your game level will need to include a variety of created audio sources and effects, including:
- ambient audio using head-locked stereo
- atmospheric effects for at least 2 distinct locations (e.g. indoor and outdoor) using spatialised audio (either ambisonic or using spatial techniques in FMOD)
- 3D point sources
- 7 instances of interactive or reactive sounds (open & close chest, open & close door, 3 player actions)
- correct implementation of reverb zones and spatial effects
- Recording, editing and processing: Any recording you make should be appropriately edited and processed in Audacity or Reaper using techniques learned during your studios. This should include techniques such as multi-track mixing, non-destructive sound processing and editing (for example filtering and effects), as well as techniques used in Assignments 1 & 2.
- Documentation: Your submission should be accompanied by details about how and where you made your recordings, and descriptions of the sounds you made and how you made them. You should also describe the genre and style chosen for your project and the mood this is intended to invoke, along with the decisions you made to achieve this (for example, the foreground and background sounds you chose and how you fitted them together). Briefly describe (at a high level) the editing and sound processing decisions you made, and your rationale.
- Spatialised audio: There are several options available depending on how ambitious you would like to be. You can record an ambisonic track (using the H2n for example). You can edit or create ambisonic tracks in Reaper and import these into Unity. You can use FMOD to spatialise mono and stereo tracks that you created and edited in Reaper.
- Project: Your submission will include an executable of your final project. You don’t need to include your source files, but should make these available in case markers need to see them. See the submission instructions following.
1. Unity build: Executable of your final scene.
2. Documentation file: A pdf of your documentation.
3. Link to project files: Place your zipped Unity and FMOD studio projects, including audio files in a Monash Google Drive folder (using your student account) and include a link in your documentation. Make sure to give all the tutors ({rick.laird, jethro.woodward, amelia.giannioglou, bennett.owen, john.betts, barrett.ens}@monash.edu) permission to access this folder.
Submission Instructions
1. Create a new folder titled FIT3172_A3_StudentName in your Monash Google Drive. Add your final Unity project here with your final audio files included. Include a link to this folder in your documentation.
Assessment Criteria (total 30 marks)
- Recorded and edited foreground background sound: Quality of recorded content: quality of recordings, sufficient variety of interesting sounds (e.g. timbre, volume, distance, dynamics, variety), sound elements added. (5 marks)
- Created sound and Foley: Quality of created sounds: inclusion of both digitally generated sounds and Foley, quality of sounds, variety of interesting sounds. (5 marks)
- Sound behaviour within scene (ambient and atmospheric): Inclusion of ambient audio as a head-locked stereo track, spatialised local sound environments for at least 2 locations, and correct implementation and behaviour of localised sound. (5 marks)
- Sound behaviour within scene (interactive and reactive): Correct implementation and behaviour of interactive and reactive sounds. (5 marks)
- Creation of genre and style of the scene: Quality of the project game scene: effective use of genre and style, strategic use of different types of sounds. (5 marks)
- Documentation: Documentation of the audio production process, discussion of how elements were chosen to fit the genre and style of your scene, factors in the decisions to use the chosen sounds, and how they are strategically placed in the environment. (5 marks)