Well tom to be honest vary few devs have actually asked the users for
sfx and voice.
And when it has happened it can go either of 2 ways.
1. you may have your stuff used and used fully or only used for that
version then swapped for something else.
Or simply your stuff is used and then used outside the project by
others and ending up on some soundlib in one case or so I did stuff.
Or simply they will not be used.
I can see a few examples where thats happened to me to.
However thats not always the case I know realitysoftware will ask for
sfx even encourages the practice of sound sharing.
Some in the group even buy sounds to share within the group in fact I
hear rumors of more sound packs.
I have a large order of interface sounds I was schedualed to fill
yesterday but will be doing it today.
Ofcause its a bonus for the contributer if you get a free game out of it.
Its even more gratifying when the thing is a success, is realeased
and the dev keeps making sfx giving said contributer more work.
Though at the same time once you have a reasonable pool of sounds you
souldn't need to rely on contributers all the time.
Since the early days of reality software my work has shrunk to small
projects from time to time I have to upload 2-6gb sound dumps but
that doesn't happen often.
And thats good the dumps take space and take ages to upload sometimes
it takes me days to sort out required sounds for upload.
At 06:24 p.m. 14/06/2015, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
You bring up a very good point, and to be honest I'm not quite sure
why the community hasn't been more active in supporting our developers
with sounds,music, scripts, whatever. It could be as simple as
developers haven't asked or developers have been closed to support
from outside help.
One issue I need to bring up is while volunteer work is wonderful it
also can be a bit sticky from a legal point of view. Copyrights aren't
necessarily designed for content to freely be given away so there has
to be written contracts that turns a license or the sharing of a
license over to a developer else it can be legally entangling if the
owner of a specific sound, music, script, whatever later decides they
want exorcize their rights as the owner of said copyrighted material
and that puts the developer in a bit of a bind. So it is possible that
some developers and community designers are hesitant of collaborating
from some legal standpoint.
That's only a guess of course, but there are reasons why things aren't
necessarily falling into place. It would be in our best interests to
find out those reasons and address them.
Cheers!
On 6/13/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> While I'm sure your right as far as different developers go, one thing I
> will say is that games are not just made by developers.
> There are script writers, voice actors, sound designers. Even in the indi
> graphical games community a coder doesn't do all ttheir own graphics, music
>
> composition etc. One thing I always find a bit odd is the way that so many
> people in the audiogames community play around with sounds for
fun, yet none
>
> of them put those tallents into sound design, or the way you have talented
> writers and actors and yet such people do not seem to be getting in touch
> with developers to assist for one reason or another.
>
> Indeed, swamp is a good example sinse I do know that while all the coding
> and large parts of the basic design are Aprones, he has had assistance from
>
> several people as far as creating sounds go.
>
> So, while I'm sure your right on collaboration with different developers, I
>
> do think there would be milage in developers handing at least some aspects
> of the production process over to other people.
>
> All the best,
>
> Dark.
> There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast
>
> and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
> the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
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