SS is looking for a sound designer. You may have noticed that we don't have that many sounds in the game, and the ones we do have aren't that great. We have a long list of sounds needed if anyone is interested in joining the development team in this capacity.

Basically, what you need to do is either record sound samples and manipulate them using a sound editor or else find public domain sounds or find sounds for purchase that are either usable or else modifiable into a useable form. We can provide a budget for the purchase of sounds. Please no copyrighted sounds.

The most important requirement is that you have a good sense of what sort of quality of sound is required. If you can tell what is good and what isn't, then you can manipulate and try things until you come up with something good.

Please email me if you are interested.

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but, i know a few websites that offer thousands of free sounds, and i could scrounge up a few, but thats it. and i dont want to be designer, anyway. but...

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Ok jeff, Im on it. Ive got a few contacts im speaking with right now, and hopefully tomorrow morning or evening Ill have somthing good to send you as far as information goes. If you or another dev could pm me with a list of basics as companies are looking at what kind of sounds they will be producing (helping to narrow down the right place to get them)

Feel free to pm me at any time.

Well, as far as what we're looking for is simple wavs like what you can already find in the install directory. We have a list of sounds needed listed as follow, but I'm sure we can think of even more sounds we should have:

autopilot engaged
autopilot arrived
autopilot error
rat squeaking -- we have space rats. yep.
Nothing to Scoop (error sound or empty scoop sound)
escape pod -- you escape from your ship in a little pod
dying to spirit -- when you die in your pod you become a spirit
buying/selling in bases -- trading of items
place drone -- deploying an automated defensive unit in space
place base -- making your own spacestation
new bounty on your head -- you've become a wanted criminal
ship/credit scanning -- scanning a ship to see what it contains, or how much money it has
failed warp -- something went wrong
tractor beam -- dragging something or someone
engines? -- some kind of droney sound when engine is engaged: probably a few for different types of engines
* different explosion sounds based on damage type: laser, heat, physical, surgery, radiation - should make new explosion sounds. most the ones we have aren't that good.
equip aug
control bot engaged -- making a slave ship active
control bot deactivated
diffuser overloading and failing (exploding maybe)
weapon overloader failing & exploding
cloaking
decloaking
shield powerup used
energy powerup used
Shooting a fire shot
Shooting a mag cannon
Shooting a base laser (more powerful sounding than normal laser)
switching weapons
warping within a dungeon (like normal warp sound, but a little more ominous)
ambient sound for being near a hot sun
select (target) teammate
select neutral ship
select base
select planetary object
select hostile shil
select inventory item
enter stasis -- your ship enters a stasis field when its shields go to zero. eventually the stasis comes out when the shields recharge
leave stasis
giving an order to a slave ship
establishing a colony on a planet
astral injection
queue fighter into fighter bay
fighter launches
fighter returns
queue missile into missile launcher
missile launches
missile explosion

bases:
construction began -- giving orders to build things
construction finished
new good trading -- putting up something for sale
bought/sold goods

Too bad you didn't ask sooner, if I had time I'd would gladly of helped do some of these but right now I'm too busy to do anything other then work/feed/eat/sleep/and read

and post on the forums?.....

I can do this, i've emailed you about it. I can work several hours each day most days.

Yes, for most of the new sounds I want to add, they need to be relatively subtle and non-annoying. For example, the sounds for selecting things should be slightly different quit clicks or soft beeps.

Sheeet!!

maybe i need to pull out WavLab, Fruity Loops, Sound Forge and some other stuff.

My dad has like 20+ years of experiance with sound...

Mwahahhahahahahahah!!!

I don't think they're paying anyway, they're just budgeting on sounds.

Being on the dev team is enough for me

tee hee, your gunna love all the little squeaks and blips I make for selecting stuffs


my dad makes his own music with sound editors etc etc BWAHAHAH x2!

well, im talking with a sound company, and im gonna see what kind of price and deals i can get from them