Sphere Community Game/Audio
From Spheriki
This page contains information about the music and sound in the Spherical Community Game.
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Decisions
File type
Both OGG sound files and and Impulse Tracker (IT) modules are allowed. Sound effects should preferably be in the OGG format, or WAV if it's important to retain sound quality.
Modules that use special effects or that are supposed to be played in a very specific way should be converted to OGG files.
About channels
The game is going to have a special sound system much like in the N64: when you go into different areas the main music changes a bit, adds or removes an instrument channel. To get this effect in our game, we will need to make the base track of the song, and leave all extra channels for this song in seperate files.
File names for these extra channels will have a dash and a number right after the song name. The base song will have the normal song name.
Example:
- Base file: generictown.it
- Extra channel 1: generictown-1.it
- Extra channel 2: generictown-2.it
- Base file: town1.ogg
- Extra channel 1: town1-1.ogg
- Extra channel 2: town1-2.ogg
If you want to test multiple songs at the same time, you can use the Sphere development environment, as it supports playing multiple songs at once. Testing multiple songs with precise timing can be done using this small Sphere application.
To do
Priorities.
- Begin working on a desert-y theme and a mine/cave theme.
No real priorities yet, but the following stuff could be done for the first public release, or at least experimented with:
- Themes for the characters.
- Try to redo the main theme? It isn't as good as it could be.
Done
What's finished and put on the CG's SVN repository. Don't forget to include the filenames here.
- Find/make computer/bedroom music or background sounds. (room.it)
- Get a falling & thump/land/impact sound. (fall-thump.it)
- Find a rock grinding noise (for something rising out of the earth.) (rock-grind.it)
- Main game theme (theme.it)
Resource sites
- FindSounds.com - A site for finding sound effects. Results often are mediocre.
- The Freesound Project - Free sounds, both instruments and sound effects.
- Philharmonia Sample Library - Instruments recorded by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
- Quality Final Fantasy soundfonts (thanks NeoLogiX!)
