Music

Overview

Similar to the sound effects, a process was created to streamline the creation of music and to ensure consistency.

1. Research music from games with a similar setting and themes

2. Select instruments you wish to use in the song

3. Create the song in GarageBand, ensuring the feel is consistent with the emotion you are trying to create e.g. minor tonalities & dissonance for a scary song

4. Polish and export the song

5. Implement the sound using Resource Service

   Example Implementation:

private void playMusic() {
  Music music = ServiceLocator.getResourceService().getAsset(backgroundMusic, Music.class);
  music.setLooping(true);
  music.setVolume(0.3f);
  music.play();
}

Since the game consists of calmer base building during the day and more intense tower defence at night, we chose to create 2 different styles of music to match these tones.

Sprint 1

In the first sprint, we chose to only develop music for the day time. This is because the day-night cycle was not yet implemented. The following songs were created and pushed to the sounds folder:

• bgm_day_1.mp3
• bgm_dusk.mp3
• daytime_grassland_bgm.mp3
• daytime_mountain_bgm.mp3
• dusk.mp3
• night1.mp3
• night2.mp3

Sprint 2