Airwiggles Asteroids

This is my take to the ImplemenTournament organised by Avishai Karawan & Jon Kelliher. Thanks to  Airwiggles for making this possible!

Creative considerations

• I went for a alienlike approach where almost everything you hear in relation to the spaceship and HUD has some sort of abstract element to it to make it alienlike, but some of the explosions and laser sounds I wanted to sound recognisable in a sense of what people would expect, to make a contrast between the two. 
• Both non diegetic and diegetic sounds for explosions/hitmarkers were used to make sure the player is getting a cue when succesfully hitting or exploding a asteroid from far away and close. 
• To add a bit of lore and rewards element, I added a intergalactic radio voice that informs the player about their milestones and tasks. After finishing it, maybe there will be a price? Who knows...

Technical approach

• I went for a hybrid approach using both MetaSounds for the core engine/thrust sounds and Wwise for some additional elements and more traditional implementation, where I could easily use different RTPC's to control plugin/mixing decisions. Eventually used a single AudioLink instance to control the Unreal mix in Wwise for the engine sound.
• The asteroids have a looping ambience and is playing oneshot whooshes when on high speed, which are both affected by the doppler.
• Alien like radio communication towards the player that keeps track of the players milestones of destroying the asteroids. I've added subtitles to translate the text to be understandable as it's just gibberish.
• Some auditive HUD sounds were added to add a sense of gathering and rewards of the asteroid dust that have been unleashed.
• Used dynamic mixing in Wwise using subtil multiband and sometimes basic volume ducking where the voice, explosions, high priority ui and self impacts have the highest priority.