Walehwa Sound Designs
My process for my first video game assets was simple, yet taught me a lot about how effective the everyday sounds around us can be. I used everyday objects from work and home in order to create a space adventure video game sound. I processed each sound over the course of three times with feedback from my peers as well as my client in order to get the most creative, and client approved assets possible without the need of commercial audio licenses.
Uranus Attacks Process
For the planet ambiences (Dkuk and Kraktoh) I used everyday household appliances such as m vacuum cleaner and wine bottle opener to get a long steady sound. From that point I took the sounds into protools to stretch them out to lower the tone and get a very space like sound to them. Knowing that the sound would need to be consistent, I looped them to make them seamless so as to not let the player of the game realize it is a loop and feel like that are immersed in the plant their space ship is currently in.
For the space ship, I figured rather than trying to manipulate a non mechanical sound into a mechanical one, I would just actually use an engine. I took a recording of car and uploaded it to protools where I looped it and put it with a few plugins in order to give the engine loop a more space like vibe to it.
For the asset of the spaceship going in and out, I used a similar method to the car engine, but with a garage door. At that point I added on low pass filter, with automation of the cut off frequency. That combined with audio suits and some reversal made the asset sound like a vaporizer.
The vaporizer was actually one of the easiest assets to make. Using bank tubes from the bank I work at, I recorded the sounds of the tubes being sent and retrieved and then added a frequency shifter and edited the the sound down with a few other audio suits to get the end result. The alien assets were taken from a sound website and transformed with a low-fi plug in to sound a if they are being vaporized.