So far, my favorite pro gaming experience in the Game Jam so far. I really liked this. Like REALLY liked. Super cool and unsettling concept. Pretty good visuals too in such a short amount of time. The fish models are impressive. UNBELIEVABLE sound design. Holy, whoever was in charge of sound design, tell me your secrets. Or dont. That's fine.
In short, loved this.
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As for the sound design, there's not really a secret haha. I use Audacity to do all of my mixing (as I never got the hang of the other more powerful tools like reaper and stuff). I mostly take some time finding good quality audio files that I overlap together to create a rich atmosphere. For the Mother's TV sound, I looked for horror movies without copyright and I found this 1950s movie called The Wasp Woman (from which the story funnily enough kinda matches the Mother) and I grabbed two 15 minute sequences that I overlapped together to create this sort of intelligible yet uncanny cacophony that would loop on the TV. In addition to that, I added some nice creaking noises to the house to make it feel alive. As for the sound spatialization, it can be done in Fmod (although I didn't use fmod for this project, just good'ol unity audiosources) but I would recommend looking for already spatialized two channel sounds asduring a short game jam time is the most valuable asset. I really feel like having good sound design can really elevate the experience and turn an OK game into a good game or even a great game in some scenarios.
Did you manage to build the boat? I've been thinking about it lately and I think that maybe 4 parts it's a little bit too much and makes the experience longer than needed. 3 boat parts might be the sweet spot.
Well you did an incredible job at the sound design as I said. So good. I should start taking that more seriously in my projects aswell. Sadly, I didn't get to finish the boat no. But had a blast anyway. Maybe 3 boat parts could be better for the sake of a jam? But I can't say much. My game goes on way too long with very little change. It's a jam so we tried our best