First post – Space shooter project
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I have spent this week with a generally unsuccessful attempt to do the majority of all SFX and ambient sound to our game. Majority of my time has been used to filter trough all Free sound effects available on the internet. The real struggle there is to find a viable sound with a decent quality amongst the unreasonable amounts of random homemade synthetic ”realistic” sound effects or silly fart noises. The most memorable sound effect I encountered was ”girl Pissing in a bowl”. The work done during weekend leading up to this week was somewhat successful, in contrast to the rest. I Managed to get Audacity Working and made a a couple samples for the main gun sound effect to our avatar, the hover. Finding Gun sounds of good quality was very easy and gave me false hope. I thought this would be a piece of cake and by the end of the week I would have all the major sound effects made, at least with placeholders. Now that didn’t happen. God knows how infuriating it can be to spend 3 hours of work to just filter trough websites after anything that can be used. I got stuck on the Thruster sound needed to the hover. The hover moves around with the help of four thrusters and they activate whenever you press down a movement button. Quite obviously, the Sfx for this is basic one and one that the player the most. It what I list as one of the most important ones but, hell, there is nothing out there. My idea is that the thrusters sound comes from the flame they shoot out. The flame is unlike that of a campfire, no sparking or popping. Just a flat and constant sound. First thought was to use the sound of a blowtorch. In my mind, the sound almost exactly like the thrusters, only smaller. Of course a proper recording of that sound effect where not to be found. Now, what I got is a small collection of weird sounds like;”force field” ”Machine hum” and etc. Also, 40 different gun sounds. I Havn’t got much further than that. I don’t know what direction I should take or how I can make everything we need. Still, this is not what I am studying. I came here to learn game design and graphics. now I am stuck doing sfx instead.
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