For my game I have tried to make my own music using a bass guitar at home which sounds will be used as sound cues. These sound cues will be played when transitioning between levels and in fights.
For background sounds I was thinking about having real music created from artists which relate to the time period and style of my game. I need to see if i can find free open source music or find a way for the player to find these songs online and listen to them, and i need to look into copyright as its important that I am not stealing other peoples work and using it illegally.
My guitar #1
I have a goal to create a simple cord on my bass/ electric guitar for each level transtion which can be used for entering a level and then leaving that same level.
for example:
Town > Gym = play song cue #1
Gym > Town = play song cue #1
Town > Apartment = play song cue #2
Apartment > Town = play song cue #2
Menu Buttons Sounds
As my game will need sounds for the player to hear/ understand what is going on into the game (or to make my game more emersive and not silent), I thought about having sounds in the main menu which can be heard if the player hover the mouse cursor over or click on a button. This would go nicely with the button animations when the mosue cursor is over a button but also there are no other audio other than my background music which only plays once until reactivated or changed.
I noticed other games that i have played which have sound effects for the main menu. Most of the time the sound effects are short and inintusive to whatever background sound or music is playingm or at all blends in with it.
I had a pack from the last project which is open scource and free to use for projects, it includes alot of sound effects for buttons which i would like to use for my own game.
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