Last time, I talked about a bit about making a list of sound effects needed for the game. So what happens once I have the list (which I won\u2019t for a while, but anyway\u2026)? There\u2019s a few ways to go about getting sound effects for a game.<\/p>\n
The first is, of course, to make them yourself. If you\u2019ve never seen Foley work (how sound effects are created from scratch), it\u2019s a really fascinating process. I\u2019d recommend checking out the special features on some movie DVDs to learn more.
\nNow, doing Foley work myself would be fun but it\u2019s not really something I\u2019ve trained in and I don\u2019t have the proper recording equipment. Not to mention how time consuming it would be. I could hire someone, but that would be a lot of money that could be better spent on other things.<\/p>\n
The other option is to buy the necessary effects from an existing sound effects library (there are several major ones which are commonly used by film and game companies) and then use sound editing software to tweak them as needed.
\nThat\u2019s definitely the faster and simpler approach, though you can\u2019t customize the sounds quite as much as if you recorded your own. It\u2019s almost certainly the route I\u2019ll be taking with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare. The main question is whether I do the editing myself or hire a sound guy to do it for me. I haven\u2019t decided on that yet. Doing it myself would be the cheapest way to go (and I am currently on a pretty tight budget for Aurora\u2019s Nightmare) but, while I do have some sound editing experience, it\u2019s really not my specialty. So we\u2019ll see. Either way though, the sound effect portion of development is still a ways off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last time, I talked about a bit about making a list of sound effects needed for the game. So what happens once I have the list (which I won\u2019t for a while, but anyway\u2026)? There\u2019s a few ways to go about getting sound effects for a game. The first is, of course, to make them … Continue reading Making Sound Effects<\/span>