Sound design and flash

Sound Design

At the end of last week 23 - 24th nov we had sound design training with reason and audacity from jean paul jones.

Audacity is a gnu sound editor free which is nice though no where near as poerful as its competiters though and has a bad habbit of falling over (crashing) hopefully the creators will get that bug out though.

Reason is a really great synth/sampling package. The whole package is based off what i used to use in my old uni to record sounds by anologue nice to know reason is kind of halfway their to replacing it. The lectures were intresting and the moby dick sound excersise had more than one pirate in for throw. Yo ho me heartys yo ho.

Flash

We have just started flash training we have had one lecture already on it already and moreover the next todays. The lecturer truly knows his stuff he has been working with flash before it was owned by macromedia. Ive been in and out of using flash since about version 5 and have made various things on it im no expert because i would prefer to use and opengl libary to create games though after speaking to the flash lecturer i was shocked to learn their is an application that will let me do this OH YES YES YES!!!!

May i present http://processing.org/ it also has a libary to create mobile games (AWWWWW drooling) Now all i need to to is figure out how to get some physics working and a basic 3d engine JAd and jar games rule.

P.S For those considering creating a 3d game for a mobile phone.

What you will require

1. 3d engine (opengl is the libary not an engine) In open gl this can be done a lot easier thand flash.

2. Physics engine use a math function and to hell with the problems.

3. Low poly models (look the 3d modelers are shivering) 300 polygons/tris (main model= vehicle or Character sorry to be a sticular remember your working with cpus that run very very slowly with limited or no ram none of lifes little luxurys) everything else alpha mapped with collisions.Uvmapping only to display colours(unwrapping for short its about as much fun as an appointment with the dentist trust me i hate the dentist)

What should i do for my first project easy Formula 1 racing (racing games are always the easiest to create learn how to biuld a course then make and fps) Will start this project after flash during christmas will setup a new blog for its development shortly.