Deck 7: The Early Bird Gets the Worm

Question 1

What is the purpose of the workflow concept called bounce out your sounds from a DAW?

A) To normalize elements as individual groups to 90 percent to prevent clipping
B) To trigger right away when called by the game engine without skips or delay
C) To meticulously organize individual files that contain all the music, sound effects and voice-over in the game
D) To properly identify your files so a programmer can help to implement them

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the purpose of the workflow concept called tightly trim and edit your files?

A) To normalize elements as individual groups to 90 percent to prevent clipping
B) To trigger right away when called by the game engine without skips or delay
C) To meticulously organize individual files that contain all the music, sound effects and voice-over in the game
D) To properly identify your files so a programmer can help to implement them

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What is the purpose of the workflow concept called volume balance all your audio?

A) To normalize elements as individual groups to 90 percent to prevent clipping
B) To trigger right away when called by the game engine without skips or delay
C) To meticulously organize individual files that contain all the music, sound effects and voice-over in the game
D) To properly identify your files so a programmer can help to implement them

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What is the purpose of the workflow concept called creating perfect seamless loops that do not skip?

A) To normalize elements as individual groups to 90 percent to prevent clipping
B) To trigger right away when called by the game engine without skips or delay
C) To meticulously organize individual files that contain all the music, sound effects and voice-over in the game
D) To save space in the game and pertains to sound effects, music, and ambient backgrounds

Question 5

What is the purpose of the workflow concept called provide an asset list or asset database management system?

A) To normalize elements as individual groups to 90 percent to prevent clipping
B) To trigger right away when called by the game engine without skips or delay
C) To meticulously organize individual files that contain all the music, sound effects and voice-over in the game
D) To properly identify your files so a programmer can help to implement them

Question 6

What is true about sound effects as one use for looping techniques?

A) Triggers the loop to play indefinitely, such as for bullets rapidly firing
B) The use of outdoor locations or tailored indoor acoustic environments to avoid a sense of repetition
C) Necessary because in many games, producers want a lot of music, but just don't have the audio budget available
D) The use of quick stinger effects to cover up transitions between gameplay

Question 7

What is true about music soundtracks as one use for looping techniques?

A) Triggers the loop to play indefinitely, such as for bullets rapidly firing
B) The use of outdoor locations or tailored indoor acoustic environments to avoid a sense of repetition
C) Necessary because in many games, producers want a lot of music, but just don't have the audio budget available
D) The use of quick stinger effects to cover up transitions between gameplay

Question 8

What is true about ambient backgrounds as one use for looping techniques?

A) Triggers the loop to play indefinitely, such as for bullets rapidly firing
B) The use of outdoor locations or tailored indoor acoustic environments to avoid a sense of repetition
C) Necessary because in many games, producers want a lot of music, but just don't have the audio budget available
D) The use of quick stinger effects to cover up transitions between gameplay

Question 9

To what does zero crossing refer?

A) Self-contained audio regions that are recorded and then cut, trimmed and tested to make sure they do not skip
B) When the end of the loop and the beginning of the loop cross the exact center of the waveform where the volume of the wave is essentially zero
C) Prevents loops that skip
D) Forces a switch to Ogg

Question 10

What are loops?

A) Self-contained audio regions that are recorded and then cut, trimmed and tested to make sure they do not skip
B) Tends to ruin carefully tailored seamless looping
C) Prevents loops that skip
D) Forces a switch to Ogg

Question 11

What is a possible disadvantage of MP3 encoding?

A) There isn't any disadvantage
B) Tends to ruin carefully tailored seamless looping
C) Prevents loops that skip
D) Forces a switch to Ogg