Hi peoples!

Probably a bad time to post this with all the 3.2-related malarkey going on but I made a little project and I wanted to show it to people and see what they thought. Basically, I took some Fraps footage while messing about in Stratholme, removed all of the audio then rebuilt it from scratch - SFX, music, voices, everything. I used only original or free samples for stuff like horses and footsteps. All the music and voices are 100% original.

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe5PTx6jI8

I'd be keen to find out what you guys think :)

~ Ash

Quite amazing tbh.

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Quite amazing tbh.

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Thank you very much :D

I like it

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I like it

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Cheers!

Did you guys think it was believable as in-game audio? Did it feel like anything was missing, or would you be pretty much happy if that's what the game sounded like?

I'm trying to get into game audio design and this is my first attempt at anything like this, so any constructive criticism would be much appreciated :)

I was looking forward to more ambient sounds.
I thought it was amazing though! Well done!


edit: I find background music to be 'anti-immersive'. I always have it off in WoW too.

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I was looking forward to more ambient sounds.
I thought it was amazing though! Well done!

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Yeah...always difficult to construct them. The mix was pretty full with the new BGM, so it didn't leave a lot of room for ambient noises, but now that you mention it maybe some eerie water drops in the corridor leading to the Baron's room would have been cool :)

That and Strath is a pretty desolate place, there's no like...wolves howling or insects or whatnot. I found it hard to think of ambient noises that belonged there.

Thanks though, the feedback is appreciated! :)

I guess there could have been a better choice for the background music when in stratholme, but otherwise quite amazing. Felt epic :)

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I guess there could have been a better choice for the background music when in stratholme, but otherwise quite amazing. Felt epic :)

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Hehe I actually had a friend of mine tell me Strath wasn't quite "castle-y" enough for the music and I should have frapsed Shadowfang Keep instead...the only reason I didn't was because stuff would die too fast in there :p

What zone or instance are you planning on doing next?

Amazing really.
What I REALLY like are the combat noises and your footsteps.

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What zone or instance are you planning on doing next?

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Actually, I was planning on doing a totally different game - maybe Unreal Tournament 3 or something. Just to push my limits, make different music, futuristic SFX vs medieval ones, etc.

This project already took about 2 weeks of 100% of my spare time though, I need a rest before I go again! :p

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Amazing really.
What I REALLY like are the combat noises and your footsteps.

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Thank you :D

isn't this a breach of the EULA?

Unable to see youtube from where I am now, so I am subscribing to this thread. Judging by your first post I have something to look forward to when I get home.

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isn't this a breach of the EULA?

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No. Else my Finalfantasylisation Mod would be aswell, or my Silencer mod, or No more Stomp.

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isn't this a breach of the EULA?

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Not as far as I'm aware - there's hundreds of WoW-related videos out there, boss strat videos and machinima projects and whatnot. I was sure to list Bliz's © copyright at the end of the video just in case.

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Unable to see youtube from where I am now, so I am subscribing to this thread. Judging by your first post I have something to look forward to when I get home.

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You have the name of a transformer, and therefore I will listen to everything you say :D I hope you like it.

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Not as far as I'm aware - there's hundreds of WoW-related videos out there, boss strat videos and machinima projects and whatnot. I was sure to list Bliz's © copyright at the end of the video just in case.



You have the name of a transformer, and therefore I will listen to everything you say :D I hope you like it.

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no i mean with regards to you changing sound files...


isn't altering game files a breach of the EULA?

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no i mean with regards to you changing sound files...


isn't altering game files a breach of the EULA?

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Who said he altered the files? He frapsed some stuff with his audio turned off and basically took a load of sound samples and layed them onto the video (ofc thats really simplifying it, a huge amount of work went into it).

Great job dude, enjoyed. I really liked the voices as well. It really gave the place a more epic feel.

You say you recorded most of those sounds on your own?

Get a job at Blizzard and help them out.
Now please. :P

I mean one thing was all the ambience and stuff you did, which was cool, but a lot of the sound effects themselves were miles ahead of those in World of Warcraft. (To be honest WoW's sound effects are pretty dull)

I'd like to see these sounds in the actual game! :)

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You say you recorded most of those sounds on your own?

Get a job at Blizzard and help them out.
Now please. :P

I mean one thing was all the ambience and stuff you did, which was cool, but a lot of the sound effects themselves were miles ahead of those in World of Warcraft. (To be honest WoW's sound effects are pretty dull)

I'd like to see these sounds in the actual game! :)

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Wow that's a huge compliment, thank you!! I actually applied to them a while back, but I didn't hear anything (hint hint Blues :p). Maybe I'll re-app, and include a link to your post this time around!

Yeah, most of the sounds are mine - if they aren't directly recorded by me, then they're an assembly of parts of other sounds I found on the net and manipulated until I had what I wanted. I didn't use any pre-made SFX at all, they're all hand-built.