Hey Tom,
First, you say that acting would cost too much money--but I find that there
are a lot of ham actors on list. I have heard many people claim to be
willing to do voice-overs. Many of these same people are the ones that want
a community project, so why not let them shine? The same can be said for
sound design. I don't see having to pay much money for anything personally.
A text game with audio sounds different. I would be interested in that,
because it would have a better story line and everything--and you could, as
you said, do audio mainly for the ambience, with maybe some cut scenes
thrown in.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts on Community Projects
Hi Shaun,
Just because a game is text-based doesn't mean it necessarily won't
have any audio at all. I didn't mean to give you that impression. What
I was trying to point out is that I'm not planning on creating an RPG
game as advanced as Entombed with sounds and music for every single
thing just because that would cost an out ragious amount of money for
a game I'm planning to produce as open source,. So sounds and things
like that are negotiable depending on cost of course.
However, I don't see having a few ambient sounds like the sound of a
space station while you are in the watch tower or a background
cityscape as you are patroling one of the cities a big deal. I have
loads of common effects like that. Plus some effects like punches,
kicks, guns, lasers, whatever are more or less easy to come by too if
I wanted to have some background effects included. However, as far as
things like voice acting I think it would cost too much to come up
with anything like that for a free open source game. What I want to
do, if I do it at all, is produce something on a shoe-string budget we
can build together and have fun with it.
Although, I'm not sure exactly why you don't like text games any more.
Personally, although I like audio games I find text-based games have a
lot better plots, story lines, and everything can be described in
detail. Audio tends to really lack this story element and there are
certain things visually that can not be, nore will ever be, conveyed
through audio alone.
Cheers!
On 3/20/11, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
hmmm I am not much for text rpgs anymore.
Audio is the way to go even if its just generic audio.
As long as you could play the nes and spc files, etc you could
probably find soundtracks I have 7gb of capcom and megaman track
remixes and probably several nes and snes track files floating round.
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