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Offline Pepisolo

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Last Icing on the cake suggestion - dialogue sound effect
« on: February 05, 2013, 01:43:41 pm »
Just thought I'd put out the last idea I've been thinking about. How about a nice blippety bloppety dialogue sound effect. I'm finding this very hard to describe actually, but most probably know what I mean. A voice/dialogue sound effect would really increase the retro feel of this game markedly. It would really make things clear that this is an old-school 16 bit era inspired title. I find it also helps create the illusion that someone is speaking to you. I think it'd be pretty cool, anyway.

Here's a video just in case you don't understand what I mean:

Fast forward to 4:20 (first video I found).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLUlbnc11_w

That's probably the last of these style suggestions, I realise time is running out. It's polish time!


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Re: Last Icing on the cake suggestion - dialogue sound effect
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2013, 01:52:01 pm »
Thanks!  This really does add a lot. :)

* There is now a low-pitched, non-annoying text scroll sound effect for dialogue like old-school games generally had, emphasizing the old-school roots the game has.
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Re: Last Icing on the cake suggestion - dialogue sound effect
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2013, 02:11:49 pm »
Cool! Should definitely boost the old-school feel a lot. I actually had another idea along these lines. As well as the standard dialogue tone, you could have a unique tone for each of the henchmen and more importantly Demonaica himself/itself. Might as well throw that idea out there, too.

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Re: Last Icing on the cake suggestion - dialogue sound effect
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2013, 02:15:05 pm »
Sorry, no time for that.  But having the text sound at all is good for sure. :)
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Re: Last Icing on the cake suggestion - dialogue sound effect
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2013, 02:19:16 pm »
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Sorry, no time for that.  But having the text sound at all is good for sure.

NP. You can save that idea for AVWW3. Looking forward to hearing the dialogue sound in action, should be very cool.