[casual_games] Advice on how to include voice over with downloadable games

[Paul Steven]

Thanks for the reply Aaron. I guess as I am used to either making games on
CDROMs that have all voice over as external mp3 files or games on the web
that do not have any voice over and just have any whistles and bells
internal, I am not familiar with the standard practices for creating
downloadable games. I was thinking perhaps there would be some kind of
performance affect if all the audio was imported into the library. I am not
concerned about the size as the same size will have to be downloaded whether
it is internal or external. I guess I just wanted to know how others deal
with this and it sounds like keeping everything internal is the way to go.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Aaron Murray
Sent: 18 September 2008 15:08
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Advice on how to include voice over with
downloadable games

 

Hi Paul. What is your main concern with including the VO mp3s in the game
bundles? Is the VO the same across the entire series? I'm not sure why you
would want to split the game into 2 downloads because that will be quite
confusing for many players. 12 MB isn't terribly large either, so your
banwidth costs won't be a killer either.

 

Perhaps you can fill us in on the special case scenario that is causing you
to consider splitting up the game. Until then, I would recommend keeping the
game in one piece in order to avoid confusing players, and making them
download/install two pieces to install the game.

 

-Aaron

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Paul Steven <paul_steven at btinternet.com>
wrote:

Hi there

 

I am developing a series of games that were originally going to be delivered
on CDROM but now will be sold online as a download instead. I would like
advice on how best to deal with the voice over element of the games. As a
CDROM based game, the audio would have been external however I am now
wondering what the best approach is with regards including this voice over
for a downloadable version. There will be approximately 12mb of mp3 audio
comprised of individual files in the region of 50kb each.

 

I am wondering whether to embed all the audio so that the game is self
contained or whether I need to have the download as a self extracting
executable with the voice over in an external folder. The games will be
delivered for both PC and Mac.

 

Thanks

 

Paul


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