{"author_name":"cmayhem","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 29, 2013 6:24 am","epoch":1367234640,"text":"Great to see this kind of effort put in to the audio side of things! Vegetables (celery, peppers) are great for bone crunches and flesh ripping, it’s a foley staple. Eggs are great for squishy splats too! Very messy though \ud83d\ude00","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1367230140,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"43289","p_author":"cmayhem","p_authorkey":"22508","p_urlkey":"78925","p_title":"Foley in Perfect Crime","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1367230140","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"22508","us_name":"cmayhem","us_username":"cmayhem","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

I had great time making Perfect Crime<\/a> and especially the sounds for it. I had already the base game working on the first day, so I could dedicate a part of the second day for Foley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pretty much all the Foley I do is accidental discovery, I simply try all the possible things that might produce a sound that might fit and then choose the best one. Of course for the competition I was really pressed time and could not just go out to get some materials that might have helped considerably, so I had to make do with what I could find around the house. All the recording and sound editing was done in Audacity.<\/p>\n

The sound of dragging the body across the floor was done by me dragging the mic around my own hair. It gave a nice scraping sound and was passable as long as it was quiet enough.<\/p>\n

The most important sound I needed for the sake of mood was the ripping sound of a body part coming off. My first though was ripping up some asparagus or lettuce head for a nice sick-sounding effect, but unfortunately my fridge was rather empty at the time. I tried ripping some old T-shirts but the sound was much too quiet and not sick enough. In the end I used velcro. The sound gave off a decend sick-factor and it was quick and easy to make.<\/p>\n

One trick I used here to make the sound more fatter was to mix together several takes of the velcro ripping.<\/p>\n

Another difficult sound was the blood spraying sound. A small can of insect repellant in a pressurized can did the trick for that one quite nicely.<\/p>\n

The only sound left was the sound of a body part hitting an object in the scene. First version was me simply punching my couch, but the end result was too muted. Next I tried punching my own stomach. The result was not much better but I was pressed for time so I simply mixed some of those sounds together and made it play quiet in-game.<\/p>\n

The music is simply me playing random notes from my banjo. Let me know what you think of the sounds now that you know how they were made!<\/p>","time":"April 29th, 2013 5:09 am","title":"Foley in Perfect Crime"}