Basic Sound Effects

We've talked about sounds and we liked the "sound" of 'em.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

We've talked about sounds and we liked the "sound" of 'em.

I would never use sound if it is added, and for the alerts I don't see why it's not possible to just have a little "bubble" pop up in the corner.

I just don't see why you can't listen to something like this while playing if you want sound.

Thanks Hippo!

Cool arty Hippo.

Diabolical wrote:

I'm not sure what other people think about this, but some simplified sound effects would be nice as an option (small download sizes of course). Perhaps some basic background music also (again, smaller files only, perhaps even old .midi files from the public domain (many non-public domain .midi files are available for super cheap also (i.e. old sound tracks from Nintendo's original NES platform) but as with anything, the sources would need to be located, and this forum would be and excellent source for information leading to them) ).

salbalkus wrote:

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

We've talked about sounds and we liked the "sound" of 'em.

Ba-dum ching

You couldn't resist making sure we all got it, could you.

Well, I couldn't resist being the one to call you out on it

;-P

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I think its a nice idea to consider. We have sound for nukes, what shall be the next?

Sir McSquiggles wrote:

We have sound for nukes

GreatbigHippo wrote:

I would never use sound if it is added, and for the alerts I don't see why it's not possible to just have a little "bubble" pop up in the corner.

I just don't see why you can't listen to something like this while playing if you want sound.

the idea of sound effects would need to be optional because some of us like to listen to old scratchy tracks of classical music while pretending we are quietly contemplating disembowling you like Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs. BUT, just in case one might actually want sound effects, having artillery sounds, divebomber sounds, mortars, machine gunfire, tanks tracks and explosions, etc. would need to each have separate tracks that are triggered only when an army containing at least one unit of the correct type is active. Then the cacophony of war noises becomes realistic.

War is loud, and the louder it is, the closer you are to real danger. So sound effects operating as I've said might make the realism of this game grow a bunch.

At the least, having in-game triggers to open links to page-less websites downloading the sounds and/or event-driven music wouldn't take too much code, I think. And my original idea of .midi files would be ridiculously easy. So easy, in fact, that they could even include options of sound effects settings like "Distant Wars", "Harrowing Fire", "D-Day Shore Bombardment", "D-Day Beach Assault", "Battle of the Bulge".

Perhaps also throw in some funny choices like "Halloween Screams", "Polka Music Missiles", and "Looney Tunes Acme Bombs" with Wiley Coyote groaning and Daffy Duck's and Bugs Bunny's infamous "Duck Season, Wabbit Season" argument with Daffy's face getting blown off by Elmer Fudd whenever a nuke goes off and followed up with Daffy Duck's "You're Despicable!", or maybe just have a stand-up comedian give you an audience-write-off-style insult whenever you lose a major battle.

Mocking sounds from Seinfeld would really go well in a pitched battle...don't you think?

James Hylton wrote:

Diabolical wrote:

I'm not sure what other people think about this, but some simplified sound effects would be nice as an option (small download sizes of course). Perhaps some basic background music also (again, smaller files only, perhaps even old .midi files from the public domain (many non-public domain .midi files are available for super cheap also (i.e. old sound tracks from Nintendo's original NES platform) but as with anything, the sources would need to be located, and this forum would be and excellent source for information leading to them) ).

I agree. For starters, I would like to see some music (and maybe even cutscenes) that would play after an army destroys or is destroyed by another army.

A moderate level of cut scenes might have one for whenever a battleship or nuke is constructed and for every major battle and for when a capital is taken by you (or by others) or when you lose your capital as well as lose the game.

I think the Slider idea would be simple enough to implement, but determining what constitutes a triggered event by scale would require a nice survey of the people who actually play this game. And I would volunteer to take part in formulating such a survey as well as getting in on the development of the code to make this game have triggered effects.

Note that I didn't offer to help with the scenes or with sound effects as I'm a systems programmer, not a graphic artist or multimedia technician. But I still would like to get a job as a programmer for the crew. I still need to check in on that but this typing at this point is more for my own benefit than for anyone who actually reads it. I should probably stop typing this right now. No really, I need to stop. So why don't I just stop typing, I know, I'll just do t

I don't really like the idea of footage after any battle...

who would, except a very few, and the code to do it for some battles would have absolutely no difficulty to extend it to all battles as an optional intensity slider.

Diabolical wrote:

You realize we all saw your pun ... before you acknowledged it yourself