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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Great jobs once again on the final projects, they're all looking fabulous! I'm looking forward to seeing them in their final versions. Reminder that our final will be Monday 5/7 at 2 pm - should be pretty short and painless.

Here's that "interactive" piece of music I was showing on Friday. These kinds of visualizations for how a dynamic score works are quite useful for helping audition and understand the implementations; I've seen similar graph-looking scores in game audio tools as well.

That about covers it for the semester. As always, if you have any questions about the final projects or final exam, please shoot Vince or myself an e-mail. Thanks!
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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Here is last week's "lecture" (aka playing a few games and talking about the audio). No slides or anything for these, but hopefully the audio helps jog memories...

4/13/07 Lecture - Audio Case Studies (MP3)
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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Here are the (last!) lecture notes - see everyone next week, looking forward to seeing and hearing what we've been up to on our final projects!

14. Working in Game Audio (PDF)
14. Working in Game Audio podcast (MP3)

And here's the 3-part article I referenced by Jim Charne on game audio rights and royalties and such.
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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Here are this week's lecture notes.

Case Studies (PDF)
Lecture (MP3)

Don't forget to bring an audio brief for next week, and to start on an asset-tracking spreadsheet to submit with your final assignment. Thanks!
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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/
10. The Final Mix (PDF)
Lecture part 1 (MP3)
Lecture part 2 (MP3)

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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ For those who want something a bit more mellow than crazy space battle stuff, here is a downloadable sample for XNA Game Studio Express - you'd still use XACT to create the content. There are a few less triggers than in 'Space War', but there's definitely some cool opportunities for expansions and more subtle sound design if you're interested.

http://creators.xna.com/Education/StarterKits.aspx

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scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Sorry this was late getting out - last week's podcast and lecture notes!

Lecture: Part 1 (MP3)
Lecture: Part 2 (MP3)
Lecture notes (PDF)

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diamante http://interactive.usc.edu/members/diamante/
In any case, it sounds like a good idea to instead take advantage of open lab time. Specifically Friday 12-2 before class. At that time, we'll have the Xbox 360 and the center speaker set up for your enjoyment!

If you'd like to borrow some games from your friends and bring them in, that'd be cool. I'll try to have a decent assortment of games there waiting for you. Please be careful with them!]]> 2007-02-26T09:48:21Z 2007-02-25T09:38:03Z tag:,2007-02-25:interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/:148 2007-02-25T09:38:03Z

scottsel http://interactive.usc.edu/members/scottsel/ Here are this week's lecture notes and recording.

Week 7 Lecture Notes (3D and multichannel) [PDF]
Lecture recording, part 1 (3D) [MP3]
Lecture recording, part 2 (multichannel) [MP3]

A little bit more on the midterm [insert scary music again] - we'll likely have 3-4 questions short-answer questions from each lecture this semester, so I'd recommend reviewing the lecture notes and drilling down into the podcasts where you want more detailed information. As always, if any questions come up during the review, please feel free to e-mail Vince and/or myself.

The week after the midterm is GDC, so since I'll likely be ranting in a lecture or panel there at the time, we may do a pre-recorded lecture - more on that as we get closer. That would also potentially give an extra opportunity for folks to do the 5.1 listening assignment during that lecture time.
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