Our presentation for the ALICT 2014 Summer School in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.

1. Creating a serious game with the
Unity 3D Engine and the
importance of music in games
by Daniel Dimitrov and Lyubomir Atanasov
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

2. Importance Of Music In Games
And A Simple Way To Make Your
Own For Free
By Lyubomir Atanasov

3. The Importance Of Music In Games
Two of the reasons of why
music is important for
video games are:
-Adjusting The Player’s
Mood.
-Setting Up The Tone.

4. Adjusting The Player‘s Mood
Basically, depending on the type, music helps the player’s
enjoyment during gameplay.
- Action oriented games have music that is energetic
- Puzzle and logic based games,have more calm and
cool, since that helps players think more rationally and
clearly.

5. Setting Up The Tone
The diffrence bitween telling a story in a book and
in a videogame, is the way the person‘s
imagination is restricted. In a game a lot is shown,
the person‘s mind can‘t orient about the tone of
what he is looking at, so he can‘t undestand the
direction of the story.

6. That’s where music
comes in. It‘s often
used to paint the
atmopshere of the
visuals that are
presented to the
player, helping them
get immersed in the
story.
Lets see some
examples.

7. Examples
-Action games usualy have music, that is fast paced,
energetic, loud.
-Adventure have either a grand soundig music, that
gives the sence of wonder, or slow and calm tone,
giving the world a strange beauty.

8. Using Free Software and Samples
to make your own songs.
Now lets see how we can make our own musical
tracks.We will follow three steps.
1.Getting the free softwear.
2.Getting the instumental loops and samples.
3.Basics of Audacity.

9. Step One.Getting The Free
Softwear
For this,we will use Audacity.
You can download it from here:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Just pick the version for the system you use and
download it.
Note:To export certain types of musical files(like
.mp3)you will need to download this:
http://lame.buanzo.org/

10. Step Two:Getting the
Free Loops and Samples
To create a song ,the simple way,you need to find
instrumental loops and/or samples.Here are some
site‘s where you can find a large assorment of
samples,of a large assorment of instruments:
http://www.looppacks.com/
http://free-loops.com/
http://loopasonic.com/
Note:It is important to find the site that the
loops/sample are royalty free!

11. Step Three:Basics Of
Audacity
This is how Audacity looks
when you open it for the
first time.As you can the
screen is dividet into two.
The top half is for the
tools we will be using,and
the bottom half is where
the loops and sample will
be visualised.

12. The top half,as shown,has the media player
tools(play,rewind,stop record),the editor‘s
tools(draw,zoom selection) and the standard
cut,coppy,paste,redo etc. buttons.The editors
tools are used mainly to edit the samples and
loops.Adjusting their volume,cuting parts that
you feel unesesary,compresing them and other.

13. To add a sample/loop you want to use,go to
file=>Import,then choose they type of file
you want to add,then pick it from its directory.Your
screen will look somethink like this

14. Wraping Up
Playing with Audacity,you can find a lot other
tools that can help with the making of your
track.When its ready go to file=>export,select
the type of the track(.mp3,.ogg etc) and done.

15. Resorces
• Images:
deviantart.com
google image search
• Music:
Made by Lyubomir Atanasov

16. Creating a serious game with the
Unity 3D Engine
by Daniel Dimitrov

17. • Unity is a free game engine with full support for
both 2D and 3D games
• It offers a great amount of built-in tools and
resources for creating complex and high-quality
games for multiple platforms
• Delivers high performance for both rookie and
experienced game developers
Why Unity 3D?

18. There are 4 main sections in Unity:
• Scene/Game view
• Hierarchy panel (object tree)
• Inspector panel
• Assets panel
The environment

19. The scene/game view when you open Unity
The Scene/Game View

20. The Hierarchy panel in Unity (object tree)
The Hierarchy panel

21. The Inspector panel in Unity with the Main Camera object selected
The Inspector panel

22. The Assets panel in Unity
The Assets panel

23. The “Robo {CODER}“ project:
• Control a robot over a grid of blocks
• Choose from the specified commands in order to
reach your goal
• Avoid obstacles in your path
• Unknowingly develop a mindset for algorithmic
thinking, which is the learning goal of the game
Creating the serious game

24. Unity has built a strong community over the years
which is always eager to help and can be found at:
• http://forum.unity3d.com/ - Unity Forums
• http://answers.unity3d.com/ - Unity Q&A
• http://issuetracker.unity3d.com/ - Issue tracker
The Unity Community