Hi Dark, Oh, yeah. I often feel its the lack of funding that keeps audio game developers behind the mainstream. I've got the skills to write something like WWE 12, which came out for the XBox recently, but skills don't mean Jack if I don't have the human voice actors to do the commentary, ring announcements, and prematch cutscenes. Often times it is the real performers themselves so you know they've got to be paying top dollar to get the wrestlers to come in and record all the sounds and so on.
I've seen the same thing in the Star Trek games. Star Trek: Elite Force is a good example. While there were plenty of non-cannon characters written into the game all the top stars from Voyager reprized their rolls for the game's cutscenes. I'm sure hiring the actors from Star Trek: Voyager for a game wouldn't exactly come cheap. That is essentially our problem as independent game developers. We don't have the funding to hire big name stars to do voice overs, nor can we hire the top graphics artests to do 3d graphics and full motion video. That doesn't mean we can not make do with hiring someone from voices.com or getting help from fellow list members, but by and large we don't have the money to do nearly half the things a commercial company can do. On 1/26/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Jim. > > I agree that sapi does have the advantage of being very vercetile for > creating and manipulating different sets of text, which is why games like > Entombed would be near impossible to do with all human speech. > > Though even then, I'd stil view this as a necessity of the game architecture > myself, rather than as something which is absolutely desireable. > > What I mean is, my brother has recently with his friends been playing one of > the wrestle mania games which has a create a wrestler mode. > > Apparently, as well as being able to choose from a libary of many thousands > of physical features to make up your created wrestler, the ring announcer > has a huge range of comments in human speech, so that you can give them, if > not the name you actually want, at least something aproximate. > > For instance, apparently someone created an evil version of Ryu, the martial > artist from the street fighter game series as a wrestler. > > No, the ring announcer didn't have the name Ryu, but did have Dragon, thus > he was called evil Dragon. > > My brother for instance, who's name is mat, created himself as a wrestler > under the name Mr. mat. > > obviously, to have this amount of speech in a game would be an insane amount > of work from a voice actor just to create enough to announce wrestler names > let alone anything else, and the only reason it's in the wrestlemania game > is that the company who make it is a massive coorperation with enough money > to throw around on the project. > > However, if an audio game were made with the same amount of money behind it, > I'd personally be willing to bet someone would have the idea to do exactly > the same thing with speech, assuming that a voice actor could be paid to do > all that recording. > > As for sound files enspiring games, well that seems to make a lot of sense > to me, --- whatever gives you inspiration for something seems fine. > > Beware the gRue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
