For the Twine game that I decided to write about was “The Uncle Who Works fro Nintendo”. I felt like this Twine as a whole was very interesting and seemed to mirror a lot of the qualities of other Twines that I’v played so far for class. One thing that seems to be very similar with all the Twine games is that they all have a very dark background to them. They give out an eerie vibe of something bad happening and usually hint to death or destruction.

Throughout the entire game, you begin to notice after the first two or three slides of the game that you have an array of options to choose from. But it really doesn’t become completely evident until you get to the point of sitting in the Den with your friend waiting for the clock to strike midnight. During that time, there are upwards of five different options that you can choose which sometimes led to more options. In my opinion, I never really felt like any of the choices I was making were going to have any real consequences. At some points, I thought that if I chose one option over the other, I might have gotten into a fight with the friend I was with but besides that, nothing felt too drastic.

With this Twine, image plays a large part in the backdrop of the game. It’s always there behind the text and always toned town somewhat which gives the game and setting a more eerie feeling to it. Sound is used sparingly and is usually only prominent when the clock is striking at 12 indicating that it’s one step closer to midnight. I think these elements add to the dark feeling that the game is trying to convey. These elements, in my opinion, work well with one another. If the images were too bold or there were too many sounds being added in at every minute, it would’ve made the game feel tacky and not as dark.

Color throughout was very dark which seemed to suite the game very well. Font didn’t seem to play a large part of the game until the end when the until came in and the letters began to turn into symbols. I think the transition from letters to symbols added to the effect of feeling as if it was the person’s own computer malfunctioning which I think was a goal of the creators. Overall, I found this game to be somewhat boring, and that could easily be due to my need for something more intriguing to my mind. But I think the whole concept is really fascinating, but I’m not sure what I would change or do differently to make the actual game more captivating.

My tutorial is for making a sound clip seem like it starts in one ear, moves into both, then out the other. It’s useful to make things sound like they’re passing by you.

Step 1:

To start, you pick the audio clip that you want to apply this effect to. You can tell that I’ve already applied the effect to this clip because the top and bottom (left and right ears respectively) have different visuals.

Step 2:

Next you click the down arrow next to the name of the track that you’re working with. You select the “Split Stereo Track” option. This splits the top and bottom so that you can work them separately.

Step 3:

Select whichever side you want the sound to begin in. In my case, I picked the left ear (top track). Once it’s selected, you add the “Fade Out” effect to it. This makes it so that, throughout the clip, it gets quieter. But since you’ve split the left and right ears, it means that only this one will fade out.

Step 4:

After that, you select the other track and apply the “Fade In” effect to it. This gives the illusion of the sound not being in this ear at the beginning of the clip, but growing louder the whole time.

Step 5:

The last step is to rejoin the tracks. You do this by going into the drop down menu next to the top track and clicking “Make Stereo Track”. This makes it so you can no longer edit each track individually, and you can edit them as one. Rejoining them will make your life easier because you can move them precisely together, adjust the volume level of the clip uniformly, or do anything else you need without having to replicate it on the other half of the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMGNTZRR0T4&feature=youtu.be&hd=1

1. In order to change the speed of a certain time frame of sound, first choose the track you want to speed up, and highlight the part you want to change.

2. Once it is highlighted, drag the mouse up to the toolbar, and choose the tab “Effect.”

3. In the “Effect Tab,” choose the the option “Change Speed…”

4. The window for “Change Speed” will appear. IN the box, there is a dial that can be pushed to the left or the right to either speed up or slow down the sound. Move it to the percentage and speed multiplier that you want, and then press OK.

5. Then, the speed of the soundbite has changed.

1. If plugging in microphone, make sure there is proper connection via usb
2. Go to Apple menu and then System Preferences
3. Go to “Sound” selection
4. Make sure both input and output have the proper selected microphone
   • if using an external microphone, this microphone should appear beneath “internal speakers” in output and “internal microphone” in input
   • you can adjust the maximum input and output volumes here
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6. Once microphone is properly selected, open GarageBand and create a New Project
   • select vocal recording
   • If recording in a podcast style, use narration voice to eliminate echo
7. To record, hit the red button on the top lefthand side of the window
   • Voice will record into first track
   • hit the red button to stop and begin recording within the same track
8. Export recording as an mp3 to edit in Audacity or any other audio editing software