You are to craft, compose, and present/perform a "Computer-mediated, Audio-visual work"
Computer-Mediated: you must take advantage of the computer in a compelling/non-trivial way (ex: algorithms, sound synthesis, interactive control, etc...)
Audio-Visual
Aesthetics of Presentation "Fixed Media"
Vision and Inspiration
A day in the life of Lily!
My dog, Lily, is my best friend, and I thought it would be fun to have my final project essentially be a chatbot game based on her life. The chatbot responds to the user's actions (i.e. feeding Lily, petting Lily, taking Lily on a walk, etc...) -- with the music changing as Lily's mood changes. All sounds in the game will be comprised of sounds I have recorded of Lily asking for food or running around the house asking for food.
Milestone 1
Made with: ChucK
For milestone 1, I focused on creating the background music for LilyBot. The chatbot is currently not integrated -- instead, the ChucK file read in a text file of instructions directly.
Take a look at the corresponding ChucK file here!!
Due to the pandemic, MUSIC220B ended early and I did not get to finish the final project. I'm currently still working on it in my free time. Some of the main changees I want to make is to add more sound effects (i.e. when happiness scores increase or decrease), and move the chatbot text onto a visual chat box rather than having it inside the Mac terminal. I also plan to have happiness increase the gain of the background music for a more interesting user experience, add a mood lexicon, and add more actions for the user. In the future, I'm hoping to make this into a visual game.
