Worked some more on Vanguard today and decided to play around with the first level’s opening sequence. One thing I didn’t like about the original’s first level, is that you simply were at the beginning of the level with no clue how you had gotten there.

So now I’ve constructed a little Drop ship object to deploy our hero at the scene. It’s mostly an FX-travaganza, complete with friction burn, sparks, retro-rocket-fire and some clearing ‘fog’ as the drop ship capsule opens to reveal the player.


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I’m very happy of the result so far. It also gave me good excuse to practice with Audacity, the wonderful powerful yet still free sound editor. Still, I find myself grabbing SFXR a lot, as there isn’t an abundance of (good) free wav samples.

I did make a freak find as I was looking for a sound for the ship opening up. I thought ‘airlock’ would be a good search term and I actually found a link about the Vanguard Airlock System (ahem). It featured a rather awesome speech file that said:
“All Vanguard systems nominal”,. Perhaps fun to add somewhere as an easter-egg :).

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