Hi tom. Hmmm, well Jim I remember mentioned something about sounds being quite hard to obtain or synthesize, so I do see the problem.
One thought that occurs to me with enemies like Skeletons, ---- and perhaps other relatively variated enemies such as roaring beasts, might be slightly shifting the pitch up or down to indicate a differently sized enemy. So long as the pitc shift wasn't too extreme, and wasn't required for other enemies, ---- Eg, type 1 robots making a high bleep, and type 2 being the same but lower, I don't think this would confuse the player too much. On the music front, I can deffinately understand the licensing being expensive if your using original music as in tomb raider, or getting it from actual groups of musicians who expect to be paid, but there are other places that occur to me. firstly, have you thought about contacting some of the hobby musicians who do remixes of original game music. because they work with game music, they could probably come up with something that "sounds like" whatever your probably looking for, obviously they range in quality, but so it goes, and I've heard some pretty amazing stuff from some of them. Check out the Overclocked remix site at http://www.ocremix.org/ then, you might considder asking on the Retroremakes forums. true, they are much more concerned with graphical remakes than audio ones, but there do seem to be ameter musicians who produce game music knocking around there who would probably be willing to help out (and probably wouldn't charge the earth, --- or indeed anything at all), for use of their stuff. go to http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/index.php?s= for the forums. then, there's me. I've always fancied composing game or film soundtracks, but have been a bit daunted by both the technical nastiness of doing it, and the fact that the stuff I've already heard tends to be on the hole fairly good. If there is a genuine need for it though, the incentive would probably help me get up off my bumb and just tackle things. I'm a litle taken up with work for my Phd and rehearsals for a production at the moment, but if there's a need for it, I'll try and get to grips with things a bit now, ---- and more when I've got some more free time. Of course, i wouldn't require paying either, I'd just be happy my stuff was being used. well, Hth. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
