For the CVRPP I am adding 3 types of different audio in the experience.
The first one is a soundtrack that will play as soon as the experience begins. The soundtrack will be on loop throughout the experience and on lower volume so that it does not disturb the rest of the sounds playing on top of it when needed. The soundtrack is called “Tribe of the Lost Rainforest” by Brandon Fiechter.
The second type of audio is an explanatory voiceover of the symbols that exist in the experience. More specifically, my experience is a journey of engaging with the Queer community and understanding the historical connections of mythology and the queer community. This enchanted forest is full of objects that represent something in the Queer community or in queer mythology and that is why I decided to add explanatory narration on these symbols every time the player encounters a significant object/symbol.
The third type of audio is voiceover explanations of interactions. The experience has a variety of different spots where the player has to interact in some sort of way with the environment. Although the interactions are all pretty simple and based on the standard collision/trigger interaction (apart from teleportation) the experience does not allow for a learning curve because of its small duration nor does it include introductory tutorials on how to act when a certain type of object shows up. That is why I added short voiceovers every time the player needs to interact with the environment. The voiceovers are recorded in such a way where I do not provide answers on what to press and what to do exactly with the controllers, instead they are more “command like” audios. For example, I do not say “grab the heart with the controller, teleport close to the lion, touch the heart to the lion”, instead I say “feed the heart to the lion”. I believe that this type of voiceover gives feedback to the player that there is an interaction in place but it also challenges the player to figure it out by him/herself. -(be in the right place in the flow chart)