Games in Analysis

List of Games from which examples were collect

We found and included in the patterns' examples at least one sound design exploration from the following games:
Afrika, Angry Birds, Aquaria, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 2, Beat Hazard, Bioshock, Bit Trip Beat, Braid, Buzz!, Call of Duty: World at War, Chime, Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Crysis, Cut the Rope, Dead to Rights, Deadly Premonition, Demon's Souls, Devil's Tuning Fork, Disney Sing It, Ecco the Dolphin, Edge, Everyday Shooter, Fable III, Far Cry 2, FlOw, Flower, Grand Theft Auto 4, Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Half-Life 2, Halo, Heavy Rain, Hexic, Ice Age 3, Ico, iGadget, InFamous, Katamari, Killzone 2, Lego Star Wars, Limbo, Litlle Big Planet, LocoRoco, Max Payne, Metal Gear Solid 4, Mini Ninjas, Mirror's Edge, Need For Speed: Undercover, Oblivion, Ocarina of Time, Pac-Man, Papa Sangre, Patapon, Peggle, Penumbra: Overture, Pinball FX, Pond, Portal, Red Dead Redemption, Rez HD, Rhythm Paradise, Rhythm Zone, Sam & Max 301: The Penal Zone, Shadow of the Colossus, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2, Silent Hill Homecoming, SingStar, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spore, Spore Origins, Tap Tap Revenge 3, Tetris, The Binding of Isaac, The Graveyard, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, The Path, Thief II: The Metal Age, Thief III: Deadly Shadows, Tomb Raider Legend, Tomb Raider Underworld, Tom Clancy's End War, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Uncharted, Uncharted 2, Wolfenstein 3D.

For disparate reasons we did not yet produce the videos for the examples identified in these games:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Aquanaut's Holiday, Crysis 2, Dune 2000, Endless Ocean, Enemy Zero, Fear Effect, Gnilley, Journey, Mortal Kombat, Otocky, Super Mario, Super Mario 2, Zekkyo Senshi Sakebrain.

Games fully presented

Amongst the games analyzed, we choose three to present in full extent: Half-Life 2, Papa Sangre, and Patapon. The exercise aims to expose – in the scope of each single game – the sound design patterns we had identified.

This selection is fairly diverse (though incomplete) in genre and platform:

• Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter, released for PC (MS Windows) (2004), Xbox (2005)/Xbox 360 (2007), PS3 (2007), Mac OS X (2010).
• Papa Sangre is an audio first-person thriller, for iOS (iPhone/iPad) ([pending: release date]).
• Patapon mixes features of rhythm games and god games, for the PSP (2007).

Eventually this exercise may extend to other games we analysed and/or to groups of games according to some criteria (e.g., genre).