Situating gaming as a sonic experience: The acoustic ecology of First-Person Shooters

3rd Digital Games Research Association International Conference: "Situated Play", DiGRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 474-481

  Grimshaw, Mark ^a   Schott, Gareth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Acoustic ecology; Conceptual language; First person shooter; Sound taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONCEPTUAL LANGUAGE; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DIGITAL GAMES; FIRST PERSON SHOOTER; GAME SOUND; GAMES STUDIES; SOUND THEORY; SOUNDSCAPES; UNIQUE FEATURES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84873329423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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