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Meatballsub
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 Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: Sound effects - 8 bit or other? |
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I am considering scraping my entire arsenal of sound effects to fall back on some of these 8-bit sounds included with the engine. I'm just wondering what other people think about this. Strictly for OHR game purposes, would you prefer an 8-bit slash-like sound or the sound of a real sword schwinging?
I am having a hard time deciding whether realism is better or not with the graphics of the OHR. Just looking for a second opinion really, but this probably makes no sense whatsoever.
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Newbie_Power
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Who got these sounds anyway? I recognize about half of them from the Adventures of Lolo (meaning: not public domain).
I would just make sounds myself. I honestly don't enjoy listening to sounds in games that are taken from websites because they don't have the 'instant-ness' needed to properly convey good game sounds.
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JSH357
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| 8-bit, IMO. Realistic sound effects generally don't gel so well with 2D games. |
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Newbie_Power
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Yeah. If you're not going to make new sounds, just go 8-bit.
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Meatballsub
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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| JSH357 wrote: | | 8-bit, IMO. Realistic sound effects generally don't gel so well with 2D games. |
This kinda what I was leaning towards.
I'd love to make new 8 bit sounds, but it seems much more difficult to me than composing midis. I will give it a shot though.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Newbie_Power wrote: | | Who got these sounds anyway? I recognize about half of them from the Adventures of Lolo (meaning: not public domain).. |
Kizul Emraldfire made most of them. To the best of my knowledge, none of them have been ripped from any other source.
because of the simple waveforms (square wave and triangle wave) prevalent in 8-bit style sound effects, it is not at all unusual for more than one different person to independently create sound effects that sound the same.
If anybody makes more good sound effects that would be of general use to other OHRers, you can upload them to the wiki on the 'Free Sounds' page |
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