Silver Strike Bowling Sound Design
Silver Strike Bowling has been a very strong product for Incredible Technologies. Players seem to like the simplicity of it and after 3 years or so, are still engaged by it as we have done multiple updates. The game features what I have dubbed "Sports Rock". I didn’t create the genre but I think I created the name of the genre. To be officially classified as sports rock you must have 1) Heavy guitar licks 2) Herald like trumpets. What goes better together?
The first video is three videos strung together. Running time is about 1:30.
Three SSB Videos
The next video is the first video from the above montage just separated out. For the music, I used a Native Instruments guitar rig fx to get the wah wah sound in the music. I first came up with the basic rhythmic line using a bass type patch in FM7 (I believe) processed it a bit and then ran that thru the wah. It ended up sounding pretty cool. I got the general idea from the Snatch soundtrack which I reference quite a bit in my writing because it sounds so cool.
Attract Video #1
This is the same video with only the just the fx track. I took the music out to show the full effect of the sound design. At the end of the video as the ball is about to hit the pins and the screen starts shaking, I literally just started cutting out pieces of the audio in its entirety, leaving only silence, to give it that ugly choppy sound. No cross fades or anything. Having those complete gaps in the audio really creates that tensioned, choppy sound that goes great with the video.
Attract Video #1 - No Music
The next video is video number 3 from the first montage. The video is for a weekly countdown the game does to announce a winner. At 7 pm every friday, the game takes over at the bar, sets its own volume (pretty loud) and blairs out this tune and announces the sweepstakes winner. So far no noise complaints.
I love the part in the middle where it breaks down into the AC/DC type riff. Arena Sports Rock.
Countdown Video
This is the same video with only just the fx track. For the beginning section I was trying to go for a space ship powering up kind of thing.
Countdown Video - No Music
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