- [UNTITLED]
- List of Common Acronyms Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Software Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Games Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Contributors
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- Spatial Reconfiguration in Interactive Video Art
- Navigating Sound: Locative and Translocational Approaches to Interactive Audio
- Defining Sound Toys: Play as Composition
- Thinking More Dynamically about Using Sound to Enhance Learning from Instructional Technologies
- Acoustic Scenography and Interactive Audio: Sound Design for Built Environments
- The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning: A Cross-domain Approach
- How Can Interactive Music be Used in Virtual Worlds Like <i>World of Warcraft</i>?
- Sound and the Videoludic Experience
- Designing a Game for Music: Integrated Design Approaches for Ludic Music and Interactivity
- Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-based Experiences in Videogames
- Embodied Virtual Acoustic Ecologies of Computer Games
- A Cognitive Approach to the Emotional Function of Game Sound
- The Sound of Being There: Presence and Interactive Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality
- Sonic Interactions in Multimodal Environments: An Overview
- Musical Interaction for Health Improvement
- Engagement, Immersion and Presence: The Role of Audio Interactivity in Location-aware Sound Design
- Multisensory Musicality in <i>Dance Central</i>
- Interactivity and Liveness in Electroacoustic Concert Music
- Skill in Interactive Digital Music Systems
- Gesture in the Design of Interactive Sound Models
- Virtual Musicians and Machine Learning
- Musical Behavior and Amergence in Technoetic and Media Arts
- Flow of Creative Interaction with Digital Music Notations
- Blurring Boundaries: Trends and Implications in Audio Production Software Developments
- Delivering Interactive Experiences through the Emotional Adaptation of Automatically Composed Music
- A Review of Interactive Sound in Computer Games: Can Sound Affect the Motoric Behavior of a Player?
- Interactive Spectral Processing of Musical Audio
- Let’s Mix it Up: Interviews Exploring the Practical and Technical Challenges of Interactive Mixing in Games
- Our Interactive Audio Future
- For the Love of Chiptune
- Procedural Audio Theory and Practice
- Live Electronic Preparation: Interactive Timbral Practice
- New Tools for Interactive Audio, and What Good they Do
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Through a gamer-centric approach of the videoludic experience, this chapter attempts to provide a methodological tool to analyze the notion of listening in videogames. On one hand, it demonstrates how videoludic listening is conditioned by other listening practices and gamer-acquired knowledge related to the various cultural series associated with videogames. On the other, it advocates that listening to videogames is also relative to the media itself, and inescapably linked with the perceptions, actions, and decision-making processes of a gamer playing a game. This chapter is complemented by an analysis of the game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Naughty Dog, 2009) that aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of the aforementioned methodological tool.
Keywords: videogames, sound, listening, cultural series, experience, methodological tool
Guillaume Roux-Girard is a Ph. D. student in film studies at University of Montreal. His current research focus on sound and listening in videogames. His current research focuses on the sound aesthetics of videogames. His recent publications include entries about sound and the Metal Gear series in the Encyclopedia of Video Games (ABC-Clio Press 2012), and a chapter about sound in horror videogames in the anthology Game Sound Technology and Player Interaction: Concepts and Developments (IGI Global 2011).
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Common Acronyms Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Software Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Games Found in the <i>Handbook</i>
- List of Contributors
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- Spatial Reconfiguration in Interactive Video Art
- Navigating Sound: Locative and Translocational Approaches to Interactive Audio
- Defining Sound Toys: Play as Composition
- Thinking More Dynamically about Using Sound to Enhance Learning from Instructional Technologies
- Acoustic Scenography and Interactive Audio: Sound Design for Built Environments
- The Unanswered Question of Musical Meaning: A Cross-domain Approach
- How Can Interactive Music be Used in Virtual Worlds Like <i>World of Warcraft</i>?
- Sound and the Videoludic Experience
- Designing a Game for Music: Integrated Design Approaches for Ludic Music and Interactivity
- Worlds of Music: Strategies for Creating Music-based Experiences in Videogames
- Embodied Virtual Acoustic Ecologies of Computer Games
- A Cognitive Approach to the Emotional Function of Game Sound
- The Sound of Being There: Presence and Interactive Audio in Immersive Virtual Reality
- Sonic Interactions in Multimodal Environments: An Overview
- Musical Interaction for Health Improvement
- Engagement, Immersion and Presence: The Role of Audio Interactivity in Location-aware Sound Design
- Multisensory Musicality in <i>Dance Central</i>
- Interactivity and Liveness in Electroacoustic Concert Music
- Skill in Interactive Digital Music Systems
- Gesture in the Design of Interactive Sound Models
- Virtual Musicians and Machine Learning
- Musical Behavior and Amergence in Technoetic and Media Arts
- Flow of Creative Interaction with Digital Music Notations
- Blurring Boundaries: Trends and Implications in Audio Production Software Developments
- Delivering Interactive Experiences through the Emotional Adaptation of Automatically Composed Music
- A Review of Interactive Sound in Computer Games: Can Sound Affect the Motoric Behavior of a Player?
- Interactive Spectral Processing of Musical Audio
- Let’s Mix it Up: Interviews Exploring the Practical and Technical Challenges of Interactive Mixing in Games
- Our Interactive Audio Future
- For the Love of Chiptune
- Procedural Audio Theory and Practice
- Live Electronic Preparation: Interactive Timbral Practice
- New Tools for Interactive Audio, and What Good they Do
- Index