That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games

Jolie H.K. Smets; Erik D. van der Spek

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_24

That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games

Jolie H.K. Smets, Erik D. van der Spek

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Abstract

Juiciness describes exaggerated redundant audio/visual feedback in games, creating a better player experience. As computer games are principally a visual medium, sound is an underused potential for creating juiciness. This study aims to explore juicy audio. A mixed-methods approach is used to investigate the influence of juicy audio on the experience of presence in the player, and how players affectively experience and evaluate the juicy audio. Two versions of a game were created. One containing juicy audio effects, and the other without juicy audio effects. Results show a significant effect of juicy audio on presence as expressed in immersion and sensory fidelity, where participants experienced more presence in the juicy audio condition. Regarding the affective evaluation of juicy audio, three themes are identified; association & expectation, pragmatic quality, and describing sounds. The latter is an interesting direction for future research, as we appear to lack a shared, intuitive vocabulary for game sounds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 - 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Jorge C.S. Cardoso, Licínio Roque, Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero
Publisher	Springer
Pages	319-335
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9783030893934
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_24
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2021 - Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 2 Nov 2021 → 5 Nov 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13056 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2021
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Coimbra
Period	2/11/21 → 5/11/21

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.

Keywords

Audio effects
Game audio
Game design
Game feel
Juiciness
Sound design

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Smets, J. H. K., & van der Spek, E. D. (2021). That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games. In J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. Baalsrud Hauge, J. C.S. Cardoso, L. Roque, & P. A. Gonzalez-Calero (Eds.), Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 - 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2021, Proceedings (pp. 319-335). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13056 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_24

Smets, Jolie H.K. ; van der Spek, Erik D. / That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 - 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2021, Proceedings. editor / Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge ; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge ; Jorge C.S. Cardoso ; Licínio Roque ; Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero. Springer, 2021. pp. 319-335 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games. / Smets, Jolie H.K.; van der Spek, Erik D.
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 - 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge; Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge; Jorge C.S. Cardoso; Licínio Roque; Pedro A. Gonzalez-Calero. Springer, 2021. p. 319-335 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13056 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Smets JHK, van der Spek ED. That Sound’s Juicy! Exploring Juicy Audio Effects in Video Games. In Baalsrud Hauge J, Baalsrud Hauge J, C.S. Cardoso J, Roque L, Gonzalez-Calero PA, editors, Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2021 - 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2021, Proceedings. Springer. 2021. p. 319-335. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-89394-1_24

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