Ask for volunteers? Then all you need is someone to sift through the candidate sound-bites... and maybe pass the leading candidates past a panel of devs for final selection. I suspect we have people capable of saying "ALL HAIL ADUM!!!" in an appropriate voice, ya just gotta put out a little effort to find them.

True. It's not like anyone is just going to take any sounds that come along and plop them in the game. What vocals I'm working on are completely up to Jeff when it comes to using them in game. If it works, it works; if it doesn't, it doesn't.

I certainly wouldn't mind giving it a try, but I don't hold out a lot of hope and you should probably ask Jeff first before getting into something that he might have other reasons for avoiding (like size of the client). Very few people are vocally talented enough to make multiple voices that can convey a variety of different character types, not to mention having the talent to do any additional electronic manipulations to get the desired effects on their own. There is a reason why most independent games shy away from character voice acting, and that is because you really do need a recording studio and a variety of casted voice actors to do it properly. (But that is just my opinion).

Example of what I mean... say we were to do voice overs for UZ, we would want zebra prince to sound sort of like a horse or something, rhino would need to have a deep rumbling voice, panther princess would have to have a female catty voice, etc. I'm just not sure we could pull that off with the resources we have at our disposal.

Of course, let's not get ahead of ourselves. All that's being considered right now are just simple replies for slaves to shout. I made some samples the other day and Jeff liked them, gave me some tips about changes that could make them work better, and he'll decide if the tweaked versions end up in the game or not; it's just a little collaborative thing that benefits me either way as it's a chance to learn more about sound editing software. As for other voices, that's just something that might come later on.

Well, I suppose that with setting some basic standards it might be possible to set up a player contribution system where players can submit graphics and audio for the game and have it be reviewed by the staff at their leisure since it would just be a low-priority side project of sorts. Still, since the players would all be volunteer we might end up with a situation where some players send in sound bites, others edit it, and some do both. The potential problem with that is that one volunteer might become busier in the brick-and-mortar world and not be able to edit things and that could throw a wrench into the gearworks.

I made a bunch of sound effects which you may like. May upload them to megaupload or something.

Do I need to bribe people to get more help with this? =)

I might can poke around the sound site more later. I'm thinking that adding launch sounds for each missile type - high-pitched for smaller, kinetic missiles; a roar for nukes - might be in order.

Getting back from a vacation late tomorrow, I'll take a look then, if there are still things to be done.

I've been extremely busy lately and really haven't gotten to look at this as much as I wanted. And then when I did get the time to look, the site promptly went down.

Here's a quick list from the specified site...

• engine thrusting sound for small engine
  Frequency reduction on "spaceship deep core bass 30" w/ lower volume than for large engine
• engine thrusting sound for large engine
  "spaceship deep core bass 30" w/ both higher volume and slightly higher frequency than for small engine
• Weapon change sound
  Second click from "gun, load bullet 02" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=16640)
• ambient sound for when your ship is near a sun
  I liked Copernicus's initial suggestion for normal ambience, though I could not find any copyright/usage info on that.
• Give slave order
  Amplified "future-tech interface 18" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=28952)
• electron cloud ambient
  De-amplified and lower frequency "radio static loop 03" for an interference effect.
• envelopment ambient
  "static pulse 01"
• PWI use
  Modification of whatever warp sound is being used would make sense.
• Unpacking sound for turning item-form ship into ship-form or for unpacking a crate or crystal
  "box metal small tin open 03" OR "box metal small tin close 02" might work for all except crystals, assuming you want to go with metal crates. Can't think of anything that would make sense for normal containers and crystals.
• Scanning sound for ship/planet/base scanners
  "scanner type 09" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=20917)
• Sound for when an item is fully charged
  "detonator charge up 05" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=29624)
  OR "powerup recharge 01" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=40249)
• The camera position change sound effect
  Amplified "subtle-tech interface 07" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=29168)
• big explosion (bigexplode.wav)
  "artillery explosion 03" (http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?f ... t_ID=14906)
• laser damage
  "swarm gun 08" sounds good to me, too.
• Missile Launch
  I liked Copernicus' suggestion for this.

Thank you for the latest suggestions. I updated the first post.

We still need more suggestions. =)

I'm still trying to get those sounds emailed to you but it's still not working .