Week 11 · November 5 · 50 minutes left

Spark
Pre-production
Production last day
Playtest next week
Polish
Ship
Launch

Today is sound.

Mr. Neet is out today and back next week. Same routine as always: build, Spark Break, Spec Check. One new thing at the end, on paper.

Scope small, finish strong.

AI is your assistant, not your author. You decide.

50 left · Sound is not decoration

Sound is how your game tells the player it worked.

Volume off

You pick up a coin. It just disappears. Nothing happens.

Volume on

Same coin, one little sound. Now it’s a reward.

The game didn’t change. Only the feedback changed.

50 left · Today’s word

A sound on the thing your player does most is the easiest juice there is.

Same action, same rules. It just feels better.

Key word

Juice: The little extras that make an action feel good – a screen shake, a flash, a pop, a sound. Same jump, way better.

50 left · One answer each

What happens in your game that doesn’t make a sound yet?

Getting a pointWinningLosingJumping Hitting a wallStartingA plant growsA room gets cleanA box lands in the right place

Pick the most important one. Start there.

No sound in your game at all yet? That’s normal. Start with the thing the player does over and over.

44 left · Spark Break

Anything from today you want to come back to? Write it down – what it was, and where you saw it.

Look over your list. Anything from before that today just answered?

Want to ask Mr. Neet one-on-one? Star it. He gets to stars when he’s back.

42 left · Studio · the sound pass

First sound goes on the thing your player does over and over.

The sounds are already inside GDevelop. Look in its library – don’t download sounds from the internet.

Headphones on. No headphones? Volume low, test in short bursts.

Picked N1, N2 or N3 on your contract? Today is the day. Show Mr. Neet it working next week for his initials.

42 left · Studio · stuck?

Look it up first.

Sound and music

wiki.gdevelop.io/gdevelop5/all-features/audio/
Start here today.

GDevelop wiki

wiki.gdevelop.io
Any “how do I…” question.

Tutorials

wiki.gdevelop.io/gdevelop5/tutorials/
Step by step, with pictures.

Videos

youtube.com/@GDevelopApp
Short, and often faster than reading.

Forum

forum.gdevelop.io
Someone already asked. Read only – don’t post.

Still stuck? Spark List, and star it.

You cannot permanently ruin your game. Roll it back.

42 left · Studio · got a sound working?

Does anything in your game sound wrong? Not missing – wrong.

Is there music? Does it match how your game is supposed to feel?

The AI says it added the sound? Don’t tell me it works. Show me. Press Preview.

Grades 3–5: Don’t tell me. Show me.

14 left · Back of the box · pencils, not keyboards

Your game is in a store, in a box. Write what it says on the back.

Paper and pencilKeyboards closed.
Your own wordsNo AI. Nobody writes it for you.
Four or five sentencesGrades 3–5: two or three.
Make it sound like youFunny? Be funny. Short, punchy sentences? Write those.

Name on it. Mr. Neet is bringing these back next week.

14 left · Back of the box

Don’t know what to write?

What would you tell a friend this game is? Write that.

Finished?

Read it back. Does it sound like you, or like a commercial?

2 left · Spec Check, quick

My Game Contract outRead the specs you picked.
Pencil status for each✓ solid · ~ shaky · ✗ broken
Shaky or broken goes to the top of next weekFix before you add.
Cut list and Failure LogWhat did you decide not to do? Bad answer from the AI today? Write it down.

Keep this · Graded

My Game Contract, pencil marks up to date, in your class folder.

Back-of-the-box paper goes to the teacher, not the folder. Folder back on the cart.

Example row, after today

N1Every important action makes a sound · date 10/1 · status ~ · initials (empty until you show Mr. Neet)

~ because the watering can has a sound but the gate doesn’t yet. Your own rows, not this one.