On the subject of the dogs in shades, have you ever had one of
those things pop out of an alcove at you? If that's not scary, I
really don't know what is. As far as modifying a voice goes,
there's something to be said for messing around with the affects
in an audio editing program to see what you can turn out. Perhaps
lowering the pitch and distorting the sound a bit might give you
what your looking for?----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Ward <[email protected]
To: Gamers Discussion list <[email protected]
Date sent: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:32:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] USA Games Halloween Project
Hi Dark,
Good point, but that is part of the problem for us I think. Since
there are no graphics to speak of its difficult to completely
transfer
the right image via sound. I know in just sorting through my
extensive
sound library for monster sounds I'm having troubles finding a
sound
that is particularly scary.
For instance, take a werewolf. We could use generic wolf sounds
which
would work, but sounds too common. I could use a really vicious
sounding dog, but its not beastly enough for mine. So even though
I
have sounds that could or would work I'm looking for something
truly
beastly and evil sounding, but can't find anything that really
fits
the bill. The mutant dogs in Shades of Doom are too tame for what
I
have in mind for a really good werewolf sound.
Other creatures I'd like to create escapes me altogether in terms
of
sound. One creature I have in mind is the evil undead Sorceress
from
the Stoneback Hill adventure in Sryth. The one in the room with
the
box with the false bottom in it. I always thought that sorceress
would
make a great game vilain in an audio game.
The problem is that a human voice screaming etc sounds to alive
to be
an undead creature without lots of alterations. Using rattling
bones
is rather sexless and has no gender to them. So I need to think
of
some way to create something that sounds both inhuman and is
unmistakably female. Kind of a tall order since I don't know what
I
need to create something that sinister.
Cheers!
On 9/28/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
On the doom issue, I personally don't find the monsters' origin
to really
contribute to it's fear factor at all, so whether it's a demon
or a mutant
or an alien really doesn't bother me as much.
Personally it's how the monster looks and sounds, and indeed how
much you
know about it that I find makes it scary.
Look at the hp lovecraft creatures. Often you were only told a
random (and
unpronounceable), name with an origin that might be another
dimention, hell,
an alien planet or goodness knows where.
however the mystery combined with the really freaky appearence,
humanoid
squid, birds with dripping eyeballs, black oozing masses with no
clear form,
all makes the creatures worse.
In shades, even though you knew! they were experiment creatures,
the
evilness of the sounds usedand the fact that you didn't get a
description
contributed a lot to their mystery. for instance how are the
mutant humans
mutated? covered with fir? scales?
Organs on the outside of bodies?
I personally always imagined them a bit like frankenstein's
monster,
missshapen with bulging muscles bursting through their clothes,
maybe
protruberances of bone etc, and of course what I imagined is
probably far
scarier than any description!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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