Re: Graphics & Music

[David Philippi]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:30, Matthias Bauer wrote:

> What is needed graphics-wise?

As many new graphics as possible to choose from and better versions of the 
old ones - what else. ;-)

At "https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=pingus"; a few graphic bugs are 
reported, but playing around with the game will soon reveal other graphics 
that could use improvement.

> What graphics formats does pingus use?

Mostly png, there are also tga and jpg graphics - but I'm not the one to 
answer those questions anyway.

> What is needed music-wise? Genre-wise?

I'd say the game requires background music for levels, theme musics for the 
worldmap, melodies for things like a level statistic screen (happy or sad, 
depending on the outcome?)...

> Does ClanLib support MIDI well, or would a MIDI sampled to OGG be better?

There's MIDI support in ClanLib and I'd guess that the average MIDI is a 
tenth of the size of an Ogg Vorbis file. Maybe that MIDI won't sound as nice 
if it's played with a worse soundcard then the one used to same MIDI to Ogg 
Vorbis but a download of 100 MB would be far worse in my opinion.

> Do you need any more sounds?

There are still lot's of sounds missing and I don't think that anyone should 
be upset if you prove that you may create a better version of a sound then 
the one used right now. ;-)

Only point to remember - all graphics, sounds MUST be compatible with a GPL 
game or in other words free.

Bye David