Official Sound design / SFX

We are finally ready to open up this area of the game, so we'd like to collect all discussion related to creative sound work in here.

As of now, we have these SFX in the works by a sound designer we are working with. As such, recreating them is not needed. For anything else, feel free to contribute! Obviously we will be selecting the ones that match a certain level of quality, and also that make sense within the project.

Important note: the style of sound effects is realistic, so no 8-bit or synthesized sounds. (use the SFX in the project as a reference) Obviously you won't be able to record many things with a house setup, so feel free to use tricks and what not, as long as the final result sounds plausible.

SFX we have:

• (plenty of) Footsteps for grass, soil, stone and sand
• (various) Pots and cookware tingling and making noises
• Pig Chef: Jump liftoff, Jump landing, Mumbling, Surprise, Disapproval, Attack / Swing cane, Attack lands (on jelly, on stone, on plant), Emoting when cooking, Picking up something, Generic talking
• Townsfolk: Mumbling, Cheering, Disapproval, Chatting
• Phoenix Chick: Tweet, Flap, Fire when burning smthg.
• Legendary chef (Fry King): Mumbling, Talking
• Bard Hare: Singing, Mumbling, Talking
  
• UI: Button (confirmation), Button (cancel/go back), Open inventory (bag open), Open panel, Move selection/hover, Click on regular buttons and UI controls
• Other sounds: Bubbling of cooking pot, Fire crackling, Cooking sounds (chopping, mixing, using chopsticks), Wind/Breeze, Indistinguishable chatter

NOTE: if you contribute SFX to the project, they need to be your original creation. Royalty-free sound effects are also not ok: you can use them, not redistribute them. So they have to be original.

 

We just opened 3 new audio tasks, you'll find them in the deck dedicated to Audio on the roadmap.

 

As usual, we don't assign tasks because somebody might take them and disappear
So we evaluate once the PR comes in on the Github.

 

No problem! It's all explained here: https://open.codecks.io/unity-open-project-1/decks/32-readme/card/12k-contributing

 

Love the term And thanks for posting in the forums beforehand!

 

Each iteration is improving a lot on the previous one!
I feel the third one is cool, but it doesn't represent the action. The plant is snapping its teeth right? In the sound I can hear a loud "thump" and then some wet noise (good). Maybe the second part could be preserved, but the first part needs to be more teeth-like.

Sorry, it's hard to describe sounds...

 

Are you trying them against the actual game graphics?
I can maybe export a small video of the plant doing the animations.

 

Not sure, I mean, it would be nice to look at similar enemies or creatures in other games and take inspiration from that. Or from nature? I am afraid there are not plants that move this fast...
Some inspiration?

 

Hey everyone
Since now we are almost done with the implementation of the state machines for the different critters, let's resume the discussions around the sound design / SFX for the critters. As a reminder we have these cards still open for the sound desing of the different critters on the Audio deck:

• Sound design for Plant Critter
• Sound design for Slime Critter
• Sound design for Rock Critter

Let us know if you are intrested to work on any of these cards!

 

Hello @Calstock8 , I am currently implementing the sounds for the different critters. I am doing it the same way we did it for the protagonist.

We will have a Critter Audio script that contains the functions to play the different sounds and the reference to the Audio Cue Scriptable Objects that contain the audio clip(s).

For now the script includes the sounds for Idle, move, attack, getting hit and death. All the functions from the script will be called as events on the animations so we can hear the sounds played at the right time (we can later tweak that once we have the audio files to make it more precise).

I have also created the Audio Cue Scriptable Objects that are used for the different critters. They will be referenced on the Critter Audio script and used by the functions that are called by the animation events. So if you want to test the sounds you made, all you have to do is to select the critter prefab you want to add the sounds to, you will find that now they have the Critter Audio script attached, click on the referenced Audio Cue SOs, you can see the files that I am using temporarily as a placeholder when you select the SO, you can add your sounds there after importing them into the project. (These SOs can also be accessed under: ScriptableObjects -> Audio -> AudioCues -> SFX -> Critters).

I just pushed these additions to main and you should be able to use them already for the different critters

 

Hey @MonopolyMonkey, unfortunately due to the open-source nature of the project we can't use FMOD on it. If you want to contribute something, they will have to be clean audio files, and we will just play them individually.
You are welcome to use FMOD on your end though, if it helps you in any way!

 

Hey @MonopolyMonkey , we currently have cards still open for the sound design of the different critters,
Waterfall SFX and Running water / stream SFX. You can find details on the cards descriptions by going to the Audio deck on the Codecks roadmap

 

Also as I mentioned above, you might find some critter sounds already assigned but they are just placeholders to test , feel free to replace them with the new sounds you add to test how they sound in gameplay

 

To share sounds that are work in progress, why don't you all use a quick way to preview, before creating a PR? Something like Soundcloud, or similar music hosting services, or just the file on a Dropbox or Google Drive?

 

It sounds really cool! We should try it in game. Not sure about the volume but we can adjust that. Would you open a PR for it? Event just the SFX is good, then we can implement it in game.

 

Thanks for the PR, but yeah, we can't accept it as it is... it's touching too many files.
What you should do is just "pull" the latest changes in main, and add your file, then create the PR. You can close the previous one if needed, and make a new one!