Music and Sound Effects in Design Philosophy

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Apr 25 2007, 5:27 pm
I am workin on an RPG and I was thinkin about adding music and sound effects. However, I didn't want to spend a lot of time creating the music for it and find out that the players would rather listen to iTunes while they play.

Which is why I'm asking if I should add music to the game, or if its not really neccesary.

Thanks
#1 Apr 25 2007, 6:55 pm
Well, music is kind of a weird subject. Some people enjoy it while others don't, and some people just don't care. I would rather listen to my Plus 44 and Blink 182 stuff than listen to MIDI files. But, it's 100% up to you.
#2 Apr 26 2007, 10:12 am
In response to Shyyk (#1)
Personally, i think music would add to your game.
You are trying to give people a taste of a certain style and atmosphere, and music adds to this.
I persoanlly keep music on, because it mostly fit the game.
How ever, do it well or don't do it at all.
And yeah, i agree with Shyyk, its 100% up to you.

Looking for nice examples, www.vgmusic.com has music from all the well known videogames and such. Mostly midi files.
If your trying to make your own music, maybe some base lines, beats and such can be of great help to speed up the procces of making a song fit a certain syle.
#3 Apr 26 2007, 11:56 am
In response to Fint (#2)
You may not know wether or not people will genaraly listen to your music. So make it and assume they do as I'm sure some poeple do, and if not many people do than what you dont know can't hurt you so just don't ask. Although from posting this topic in the first place probably means you've though all I've said though already and came to the conclusion to ask before hand so that later you want need to therefore making everything it just typed useless...
#4 Apr 26 2007, 1:56 pm
In response to Atomixkid (#3)
Besides, if they don't want to listen to music, they can off it via dream seeker options. If you do use sounds, use compressed music files like .MID (midi) and .ogg (instead of .WAV or .MP3)
#5 Apr 26 2007, 2:24 pm
In response to GhostAnime (#4)
Thanks for the advice guys :D
#6 Apr 26 2007, 11:15 pm
In response to GhostAnime (#4)
GhostAnime wrote:
Besides, if they don't want to listen to music, they can off it via dream seeker options.

You should have a separate in-game music toggle, though, so that people can get rid of the music and keep the sound effects.

While you're add it, have an in-game sound effects toggle as well, for complete flexibility (and so that people don't have to keep turning sound on and off all the time if they want it in one game but not another).
#7 Apr 30 2007, 6:08 pm
In response to Crispy (#6)
You should have a separate in-game music toggle, though, so that people can get rid of the music and keep the sound effects.

While you're add it, have an in-game sound effects toggle as well, for complete flexibility (and so that people don't have to keep turning sound on and off all the time if they want it in one game but not another).

That's pretty much the solve-all answer right there. Separate toggles for sound and music.