IEZA Framework

The IEZA framework is a 2-dimensional framework that describes the audition ambiance of video games. It was developed by Sander Huiberts and Richard van Tol at the Utrecht School of the Arts amid 2003 and 2008, and it can be acclimated for the assay and amalgam (conceptual design) of complete in computer games.

Description

The IEZA framework uses two ambit to call complete in computer games. The aboriginal ambit makes a acumen amid complete appearing from the fabulous bold world, such as the footsteps of a bold character, and complete advancing from alfresco the fabulous bold world, such as a agreeable score. Stockburger (2003) describes this acumen by application the agreement diegetic and non-diegetic. The additional ambit makes a acumen amid complete accompanying to the action of the bold on one hand, and complete accompanying to the ambience of the bold on the other.

Four domains are formed by the two dimensions: Interface, Effect, Zone and Affect.

Interface

Sound in the Interface area expresses what is accident in the game. In abounding video amateur this is complete accompanying to action in the HUD, such as sounds synced to bloom and cachet bars, pop-up airheaded and the account display. Although complete in this area generally follows ICT interface complete architecture conventions (abstract iconic and non-iconic signs), there are abounding amateur that carefully try to becloud the boundaries of Interface and Effect by artful the diegetic concept. In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Interface complete instances abide of the skidding, cutting and sliding sounds of skateboards.

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Sound in the Effect area expresses action in the bold world. Complete usually consists of a mix of one-shot complete contest in the bold apple (either triggered by the amateur or by the bold itself), such as the complete of an explosion, and connected complete streams, such as the complete of a continuously afire fire. Complete of the Effect class generally mimics the astute behavior of complete in the absolute world. In abounding amateur it is the allotment of bold audio that is dynamically candy application techniques such as real-time aggregate changes, panning, clarification and acoustics.

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Sound in the Area area expresses the ambience (for archetype the geographical, cultural and/or topological setting) of the bold world. A area can be accepted as a altered spatial ambience that contains a bound amount of beheld and complete altar in the bold ambiance (Stockburger, 2003, p. 6). It ability be a accomplished akin in a accustomed game, or allotment of a set of zones basic the level. Area is generally advised in such a way that it reflects the after-effects of bold play on a game's world.

Affect

Sound in the Affect area expresses the ambience (for archetype the emotional, amusing and/or cultural setting) of the game. Affect is generally advised in such a way (using absolute time adaptation) that it reflects the affecting cachet of the bold or that it anticipates accessible contest in the game.

Applications of IEZA

The IEZA framework is featured in a book affiliate by Ulf Wilhelmsson and Jakob Wallén (2010). The authors amalgamate IEZA with the archetypal for the assembly of blur complete by Walter Murch (1998) and the affordance approach by Gibson (1977). The framework is aswell acclimated as a conceptual framework for the activity of bold audio in affiliation to captivation (Huiberts, 2010). Whitehead (n.d.) fuses several frameworks for bold audio, amidst the IEZA framework. IEZA has been evaluated at the Utrecht School of the Arts Adaptive Music Systems Research Group beneath Jan IJzermans as a architecture ability in educational, bookish and applied settings.