Jeeyoon Hyun's blog

May 04, 2021

Buoy: Work Notes

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Screen capture of work-in-progress in UE4 — Screen capture of work-in-progress of Buoy in UE4

Buoy is a work-in-progress interactive soundscape where you float around to control the sounds you hear.

Attempts at the floating first person controller

A depiction of the floating controller that changes as you enter different regions. Different body parts float around, and some of the body parts disappear as you move to another area.

Third-person view of the controller, colliding with other floating objects

First-person view of the controller

Didn’t work well
too floaty to work as a controller

Inspirations for the level design

Abandoned spaces
Villa Ricevimenti

Inspirations for the sound design

Elveden Hall
Convolution reverb, image, sound from OpenAir. CC-BY-4.0

Image of a person recording sounds in a decorated room inside a castle. Elveden Hall, Suffolk, England. — Elveden Hall (Suffolk, England)

Example of a drum sound with reverb from Elveden Hall.

Example of a sound with reverb from Elveden Hall.

Drone based background music

Creating generative drone sounds in Ableton Live

Using the Emit & Grain Delay plugin in Ableton Live

generative drone sounds
lowering pitches a lot making it very slow

Before / after adding IR

Sound before adding IR

Sound after adding IR

Sound effects

Trigger occasional bell sounds / music when colliding an object
attenuation / spatial sound
different post processing effects for each sound
loops in a certain location

area #1

Screen capture of a broken door floating in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the first area: broken door

area #2

Screen capture of a fallen stone pillar floating in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the second area: fallen stone pillar

area #3

Screen capture of floating rocks floating in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the third area: floating rocks

area #4

Screen capture of stone pillars in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the fourth area: stone pillars

area #5

Screen capture of floating huge rocks in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the fifth area: floating huge rocks

area #6

Screen capture of floating small rocks in a desolate field of rocks — Screen capture of the sixth area: floating small rocks