Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay

Nils Iver Holtar; Mark J. Nelson; Julian Togelius

Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay

Nils Iver Holtar, Mark J. Nelson, Julian Togelius

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Abstract

We describe a system for bidirectionally coupling the music and gameplay of digital games, so gameplay procedurally varies the music, and music procedurally varies the game. Our goal is to inject game music more closely into the core of gameplay, rather than having the music serve as an aesthetic layer on top; traditionally, music responds to game state, but not vice versa. Such a coupling has compositional and design implications: composing game music becomes a kind of composition of gameplay, and furthermore, game-design decisions feed back into the music-composition process. We discuss an arcadestyle 2d side-scrolling game, Audioverdrive, demonstrating this integrated music/game composition approach.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference
Subtitle of host publication	International Developments in Electroacoustics
Publisher	International Computer Music Association
Pages	124-131
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9780984527427
State	Published - 2013
Event	39th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2013 - Perth, WA, Australia Duration: Aug 11 2013 → Aug 17 2013

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Name	Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics

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Other	39th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2013
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth, WA
Period	8/11/13 → 8/17/13

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Computer Science Applications
Media Technology

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Holtar, N. I., Nelson, M. J., & Togelius, J. (2013). Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay. In Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics (pp. 124-131). (Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics). International Computer Music Association.

Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay. / Holtar, Nils Iver; Nelson, Mark J.; Togelius, Julian.
Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics. International Computer Music Association, 2013. p. 124-131 (Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Holtar, NI, Nelson, MJ & Togelius, J 2013, Audioverdrive: Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay. in Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics. Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics, International Computer Music Association, pp. 124-131, 39th International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2013, Perth, WA, Australia, 8/11/13.

Holtar, Nils Iver ; Nelson, Mark J. ; Togelius, Julian. / Audioverdrive : Exploring bidirectional communication between music and gameplay. Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics. International Computer Music Association, 2013. pp. 124-131 (Proceedings of the 2013 ICMC Conference: International Developments in Electroacoustics).

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