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A game of lonely space adventure
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Feature request: Comm chatter around Starports and Space Stations. #2674

Open rurquiza opened 10 years ago

rurquiza commented 10 years ago

Something that would really add immersion to the game (at least for me, that is) would be if there was some generic comm chatter whenever you get to a certain distance from Space Stations and Starports. It would even serve to amplify the sense of loneliness when you are in deep space by yourself and its not playing.

I found this file on freesound.org that would be perfect for the job, with some more distortion perhaps:

http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/128472/

impaktor commented 10 years ago

In this Oolite Tionisla Orbital Graveyard-video (e.g. first 10 s) there seems to be synthesized comms chatter, some in English, and some seems to be just procedural text? Not sure.

But if one uses synthesized speech from text it could be:

  1. From translated strings, in json format, because people play Pioneer in other languages as well
  2. Procedural text, because around space stations people speak many different languages

So in either case, having a lot of noise and distortion, and low volume it could work.

I'm not sure if that player is using a mod, but it would be cool if we could use it in pioneer.

Also, NASA Space Sounds library

zonkmachine commented 3 years ago

there seems to be synthesized comms chatter, some in English, and some seems to be just procedural text?

It looks like it's all done with Espeak.