Musical Shooting Range

Musical Shooting Range

The Musical Shooting Range game audio project contains a 3D one-room environment that explores interactive audio feedback from a weapon, target impacts, and a power-up state system in response to the player's actions.

A chain of five successfully hit targets in a row activates the power-up state. If the targets were not hit before the invisible timer ran out or if a miss was recorded during the middle of the chain, this would prevent the power-up state from activating. 3D automation paths are drawn for the ejected bullet casing audio feedback. Animation Notifies in Unreal Engine 5 align reload sounds with the weapon and the player's 3D character animation.

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Role and scope

Sound design, audio editing and implementation by Matthew Kwan with sound effects primarily sourced from licensed libraries and adapted for implementation through sound selection, trimming, layering, fading, pitch adjustment, level balancing, and processing in Reaper. This project includes sound from one original field recording captured by Matthew Kwan.

Audio was implemented using Wwise and Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints) including the setup of events, randomized feedback of ten organ-note variations upon hit target impacts during an active power-up state, 3D automation paths for bullet casing ejection and landing, and reload sequence synchronization using Animation Notifies.

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Credits & Third-Party Assets

FPS Template / Source Project — CC BY 4.0Unreal Engine 5 FPS Game Tutorial Project by Infima Games (2024)Source files: https://infimagames.gumroad.com/l/fps-tutorial-source-filesLicense: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Changes: Adapted and expanded for a musical shooting-range prototype, including sound design, audio editing, sound selection, layering, Wwise implementation, randomized organ-note target feedback, 3D bullet casing ejection and landing, reload synchronization using Animation Notifies, and project-specific gameplay/audio modifications.

Fab Asset — CC BY 4.0CC0 - Muscial Note by plaggy, via FabAsset: https://www.fab.com/listings/0463d9d0-921e-4f30-bf58-443f193c1898License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Changes: Integrated into Unreal Engine 5 for this musical shooting-range prototype.

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Tutorial References

This project was built as part of a learning exercise by following and adapting workflows from the following tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag9GFfFsK80&list=PLQza0mSNfg7P62CGypBXtz9K3L4pQZrO7&index=25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCmRgWMyqjs&list=PLQza0mSNfg7P62CGypBXtz9K3L4pQZrO7&index=26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4_fU93Ayc&list=PLQza0mSNfg7P62CGypBXtz9K3L4pQZrO7&index=27

These credits do not imply endorsement by Infima Games, the asset creators, or tutorial creators.

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Tools

Reaper, Wwise, Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints)