Want voice acting? Textures? Etc.?

[Yushatak]

This is the best Dungeon Keeper recreation I've ever seen, including commercial attempts. It really feels like a proper DK game. I hereby offer my talents to you, which include:

- Voice Acting (see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4N6YLop6VA - I can do other voices, just a sample)
- Texture Creation
- Sound Effect Creation
- Game Balancing Input (I'm quite good at this, but I don't know if you need it)
- Game Idea Input (I expect you don't need this)
- Video Creation (LP, Review, Trailer, Etc..)

I could also design and/or host a webpage for you.

I do game design as a hobby, but nothing even vaguely recent to show but a terrain generator - that's not terribly relevant, except that I have experience with the process and concepts, etc..

 

[Bibendus]

Mmmm interesting... are you good with zergish male voice (something like Abathur).
I need a restyle of standard alert messages (we need more minerals, we need more vespene, the hive is under attack, etc) with the addition of specific hive keeper alerts (one of your creatures is unhappy because..., your hive has been breached, your hive heart is under attack, etc)

This is a full list of mentor alerts that was present in dungeon keeper
http://keeperklan.com/wiki/Speech_Quotes#The_Mentor
I don't need all of them but you got the idea

Here is how the original voice sounded like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REikN_q1c-I


About the textures, if you are able to make better looking walls then the actual ones I would really appreciate it

 

[Yushatak]

Post the current wall textures someplace for me and I'll see what I can do (I don't have the knowledge of SC2's internals to go get them easily like I could have on WC3 or SC1).

I'll post a few clips of variations on an alert message or two so we can see what/if you like later (or tomorrow, definitely have time then since it's Friday).

 

[Bibendus]

Here are the textures in dds format.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42948506/dk-textures.zip

If you need them in another format tell me.

 

[Yushatak]

DDS is fine, I did two short samples of male zerg announcer voice, let me know if you like either - i can do others. It's a combination of effect and voice acting so there's a lot of variables to mess with, I just tried to mimic Abathur roughly since you suggested that (i.e., if you like neither, just let me know why and I'll come up with some more samples).
http://www.mediafire.com/download/3wyanl1wayz8z43/voice.7z

I'll give the texture a look right now.

Edit: randomly decided to do a zerg voice with no source to copy, came out pretty good so I thought I'd show ya that too (no effects):
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/erlpx6gxfpdc09t/resources3.mp3

And arbitrary zerg growl (no effects):
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/3hmqusb73qjldki/zergyroar.mp3

Edit 2: Do you want the textures at this resolution, or higher? At least for the dirt/rock, I'm not sure if you can do better at the same size. More details on the various inlaid gems/etc. can be done, though. To make it higher detail (for first person I'm guessing) we'd need to go higher resolution if it can support it.

 

[Bibendus]

I like mostly the second one (resources2.mp3) cuz if feels more badass while the first one feels more human.
The only thing that concerns me is the weird background noise that bounces from left to right channel, can it be removed or changed with something less annoying?
I don't like the normal one, probably because it has no effects
Nice growl, I'll think if I need sound effects, maybe for spells.

About the textures I care mostly about the top down view ahestetic, possession is not used for the most time. If you want you can work on 1024x1024 textures and I could resize them temporarly o 512 for now

 

[Yushatak]

That's due to the nature of the effect I used - it wasn't noticeable on my speakers. I can easily fix that by flattening the results to mono from stereo.

Here's a full set of the advisor quotes in SC2 done - let me know if you want new takes on any of them - a few sounded slightly off to me but it's hard to judge your own stuff.

I'll need a list of the actual quotes you want from DK and how you want them modified, since they say things like "creatures" where you might want brood, minions, etc.. I can always do more, so don't worry about things if you don't think you'll need them.

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/lw14m0a85jfyvfj/resources4.mp3

 

[Bibendus]

Now it feels better not moving from a channel to the other one, btw why is this weird background noise still playing while you are not talking?

I'll let you have the list of quotes I need asap.

 

[Yushatak]

The background noise is probably my breathing (I did them all in one take)? I dunno, I hear nothing in those parts of the audio. That shouldn't matter, though, because it will be chopped up and those parts will be gone.

 

[Bibendus]

it could be the breathing with zerg effects
btw what's the size of each sound file? I need to know due to the bnet upload limitations

 

[Yushatak]

All of it in one file with the space between each one is only 819KB, so it's negligible. I could make them even smaller if we really had to, but the quality would start to go down. xD

Sorry my answer was so slow, I work full time and am often busy, but I'm not gonna forget about you.

I might not be that useful to you for textures, since I have no experience with this many layers of texture (specular, emissive, normal, actual texture). The most I've ever done is actual/normal, and that was only once. Most of my experience texturing is for games where the texture files are single-layer.

 

[Bibendus]

Here is a probably incomplete list of the system messages, I may add or change some in the future. In that case can I count on you?


GENERAL
The enemy has broken through your walls!
Your hive heart is under attack
You require more minerals
You require more vespene gas
Your mineral reserves are running low
Your vespene gas reserves are running low
You cant afford to train creatures.
You cant afford to research new spells.
You cant afford to research new traps.
Jackpot
It is pay day
You have defeated an enemy keeper.
You have been defeated.
You are victorious!


CONQUERING
The enemy is destroying your rooms
The enemy is claiming your rooms
The enemy is stealing your minerals
You are losing territory
You have claimed an enemy room.
You have taken control of a new room.
You have claimed a nydus worm.
You have lost a nydus worm.


RESEARCH & CRAFTING
A new room has been researched.
A new spell has been researched.
A new trap has been researched.
A new door has been researched.
A new trap has been manufactured.
A new door has been manufactured.


CREATURES
A new creature type has joined your army.
Your creatures are becoming angry.
Some of your minions are unable to reach their lairs.
Hungry creatures cannot get to a hatchery.
Some of your minions are unable to reach the treasure room.
Your creatures are upset because they are hungry.
Your creatures are upset because they have no place to rest.
Your minions are annoyed, you cannot pay them.
Creatures are deserting!
One of your creatures has left your hive.
Your minions are vandalizing your dungeon!
Your creatures are fighting agmonst themselves!


PRISON & INFESTATION
Your prisoners are starving to death.
Your prisoners are escaping!
A prisoner has died and risen as as a CHANGELING.
Information has been obtained from the enemy.
A victim has died during the infestation process.
An enemy has been infested to join your cause.
One of your creatures has joined the enemy.
Secrets has been obtained from your creatures.


TIPS
You need to build a lair for your creatures.
You must build a treasure room to store minerals.


TEMPLE / GENETIC POOL
The gods are pleased with your sacrafice.
The gods have rewarded your offering. Your genetic testings had a pleasent effect
The gods do not care for your sacrifice.
Your offering has made the gods angry.
The gods have punished you unworthy offering.


BOOSTS
Your creatures have been rewarded with experience.
Your creatures have been rewarded with happiness.
Your creatures have been rewarded with efficiency.
Your creatures have been healed.
Your hive has been fortified.
You have been awarded with new drones
You have been awarded with minerals
You have been awarded with vespene gas
You have been awarded with global research points
You have been awarded with rooms research points
You have been awarded with psyonics research points
You have been awarded with traps research points
A section of the map has been revealed to you.
The entire map has been revealed to you.


EXPLORATION
Your creatures discovered a new area
Your creatures discovered a mysterious box.
A room schematic has been discovered.
A psyonic ability genoma has been discovered.
A door design has been discovered.
A trap design has been discovered.


FIGHTING
Your creatures are under attack!
Your creatures are falling in battle.
Your creatures have won a battle.
Your creatures have lost a battle!
The battle is over.


STEALING
You have learned to build a new room by stealing one from the enemy
You have taken an enemy's spell research.
You have taken an enemy's trap research.
You have taken an enemy's door research.
A spell research has been taken from you!
A trap research has been taken from you!
A door research has been taken from you!


ROOMS WARNINGS
Your creatures need a bigger lair.
Food is scarce, enlarge your hatchery.
Your psionic nest is too small.
You need a bigger treasure room.
You need a bigger training room.
Your forge is not big enough.
Your prison is too small
Your torture chamber is not big enough.
Your genetic pool is not big enough.
Your arena require expansion.
You need a bigger vespene chamber.



Edited a bit

 

[Yushatak]

Yes, if I'm not responsive try me on email yushatak -at- gmail, much more likely to respond as this is the only reason for me to remember to check this forum.

I will do those voice clips over the weekend, probably tomorrow, and split the existing ones into individual files as well.

 

[Bibendus]

Really appreciated
So will they be mp3s?

 

[Yushatak]

Yes, and sorry I didn't get them posted last weekend - I ended up being out of town on short notice. Will get them done ASAP, hopefully tomorrow after work.

 

[Bibendus]

No problem, I'm not in hurry
I'll probably add them for the next upcoming release

 

[Xonok]

That voice acting is just marvelous. I like it more than the usual SC2 zerg.

 

[Yushatak]

I recorded them all (one take) - I am applying effects, then I will separate them into individual files. Once I've uploaded them, let me know if any aren't up to snuff for you and I'll do additional takes of those.

That voice acting is just marvelous. I like it more than the usual SC2 zerg.

Wow, thanks!

Edit: I split about 1/5th of them, can't spend any more time on this today, lol. I had no idea it would take so long to split them! I will post them when they are done.

 

[Bibendus]

As I said don't worry, I'm not in hurry.
I'm working on boosts so until I finished I'm not releasing a new version.

In the meanwhile can you post one of your mp3s so I can start testing it inside the map?

 

[Yushatak]

As I said don't worry, I'm not in hurry.
I'm working on boosts so until I finished I'm not releasing a new version.

In the meanwhile can you post one of your mp3s so I can start testing it inside the map?

Here is the full set. A few of them definitely need redoing, but they're all here and the vast majority sound good.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/dvfnrtnnnaggxe2/YushatakZergVoiceDK.zip

Let me know which you'd like redone, I couldn't keep track of the ones I noticed while slicing the file up.

 

[Bibendus]

Awesome job!!!
I listened them all and I'm posting here what should be fixed:

- aPrisonerHasDiedAndHasRisenAsAChangeling (can't hear well what you are saying)
- jackpot (should be more entusiastic)
- you have been defeated (should be more dramatic)
- youHaveClaimedANydusWorm (is slightly cut at the end)
- yourArenaRequiresExpansion (has some weird effects that I don't know how to explain)
- yourMinionsAreAnnoyedYouCannotPayThem (a bit cut at the end and there is too muchecho)
- yourMinionsAreVandalizingYourDungeon (slightly cut at the end)

In the future I'll probably need new phrases for the temple/vespene chamber. In the meanwhile I'll add these ones.

 

[Bibendus]

Oh and here I have few other alerts I need:

- Your drones are under attack
- You must build that on your creep
- You must use that on friendly creep
- You must use that on a friendly creature
- You must use that on an enemy creature
- You must use that on one of your creatures
- You cant afford to keep your spell active anymore

 

[Yushatak]

K, will get that stuff done when I have some time. :3

 

[Bibendus]

There is a problem, I tried to import the alerts in the map and the voice is too quiet.
The editor doesn't allow me to increase the sound over 6% so I need you to increase the volume directly in the files.
The volume should be increased by something like 50%, can you send me some examples at different volumes so I can tell you wich one works fine?

 

[Bibendus]

I'm pretty much ready with the release, are you still there? I need the fixed audio :|