I NEED YOU TO BE A PUSS ZOMBIE!! [ONE SLOT LEFT!!]

[BluePineapple72]

 

 

For those who've been in on the loop of PUSS lore and shenanigans, you may have noticed that we've been on hiatus! Only by being broken by our hiatus vacation this past July with Summer Showdown we've had a record breaking one (1) event(s) so far this year!

 

This event hiatus has given me a shit ton of time to laze around this house doing nothing while I talk about all the work I need to do to complete our several backlog projects that caused this hiatus in the first place. One of those projects is Trick and Tear THE LIVING DEAD! A wave based zombie nightmare built for GZDoom, blah blah, advertisement, blah blah.

 

"But BluePineapple72! This is the community projects forum! Not Wad Releases!"

 

Right you are bucko!

 

One of the several TODO list items that has prevented TTZ RC2 from releasing are the ZOMBIE VOICES! I, ambitiously and scope-creepingly, wanted to add homemade zombie sounds submitted by our very own community that we killed and resurrected as walking corpses!! Look at this handy zombie visualizer to get a glimpse at our wonderful hoard! We have 26 zombie types, with 9 of them already voice acted! I was doing this project in several DM channels but lost track of it over the course of two years, so I wanted to open this up to the wider doom community! To contribute, please read about my submission guidelines below. It has information about how I'll manage slot claiming as well as some voice direction regulations for what sort of noises I need and how to record them.

 

If you want to see what they sound like in game, I have every zombie lined up together on MAP40 of the wad, so download that to get a general idea of what every zombie sounds like WHILE ALSO READING THE GUIDELINES BELOW!

 

 

+ To submit a claim to a zombie slot, post a comment on this thread naming the zombie you'd wish to become! To my discord members, I ask that you refrain from claiming in the TTZ channel and post here to just keep things consolidated.

 

+ Claims are valid for three (3) days, after which you will be dropped from that slot. You can only hold one slot at a time, and I will ask that you wait some time before claiming another.

 

+ I do not require professional recording setups and the like. You can use your phone to record (I did that). My only caveats are that your sound files are of good quality and that you don't peak your mic. This is also a given but please no background audio.

     ~ Also, please don't use any voice FX or sound effects on your voicelines. I just want your raw gross squelchy voices as they come mint from your voice box.

 

+ Each zombie falls into one of three categories, which will guide your voice acting direction for what slot you claim:

- Shambler Zombies are essentially our classic formerly graved corpses that squelch and moan slowly in a desperate, yet slow, search for braaaains. They sound like they are in pain, like they are drier, fleshier, dumber, slower, zombie-ier, and moanier than the rest of the hoard! Think Night of the Living Dead! Literal walking corpses with the energy of... well a corpse!

- Scientist Zombies are fresher, more intelligent zombies that are capable of using weapons and (almost but not really) complete sentences! They can have a little bit of a nerd sound to them, though that isn't necessary. What they've got that shamblers don't is a fresh and invigorated take on zombie-hood that the old and jaded undead have lost in many many bitter years of afterlife. They also sometimes groan scientific terms like "sciiience!" or "grrrallgh science!!!"

 

This bunch has three lovely ladies that need gross gremlin voices that aren't inappropriate and don't sound like porn (I'm not joking when I say that the zombie sounds I found online in the early stages of this project were literally that, which inspired the idea to replace their sounds and eventually the rest of the hoard). I'm not going to do a DNA test or an ID check for slots claimed for the three remaining female zombies, I'll just use the honor rule that they sound woman adjacent.

 

- Solider Zombies died and aren't too happy about it. They are faster, stronger, tougher, bigger badder better... stronger. There groans are better described as shouts  really as they're firing on all cylinders trying to get you. These guys sound like the sort of lot you'd run into past round 20 on Call of Duty. Angry, loud, energized with a big ass chest full of air and really really fucking hungry.

 

+ Each Zombie needs minimum 4 different takes for 4 different sound types for a total of 16 sound files per zombie. Make sure that each sound file you send to me isn't fucking like... 8 seconds long or whatever. It would help me a lot if you already have each sound file cropped to just the sound itself without a lot of dead air. I can do more than 4 sounds per type, but anything way more than that will be a pain to implement and will increase the size of the wad tremendously, so don't overdo it pretty please!

- The sound types I need are as follows:

   ~ Wake Sounds: The alert sound the zombie makes when it spots you for the first time and activates. Examples: GGerrrerarmmm! Braaaains! Human!

   ~ Roam Sounds: The ambient noises the zombie makes as it walks around looking for you. Examples: Braaains! Fleeeesh! I hunger! Stuff like that.

   ~ Hurt Sounds: Noises and mouth squelches the zombie makes when you shoot it. Examples: Grerraaaa! OOOOof! Ouch, brains!

   ~ Death Sounds: Self explanatory. Examples: AAAAAAHrrlrlrlrlrlllll! Nnnnnooaaaalllrlrlrbbb! Braiiansnssllllrrrrr!

 

If you need help/feedback/advice/direction for recording, please let me know and I'll help direct you.

 

+ Send all of your takes to me in a zip file with each file named as such: AuthornameSoundtypeNumber. Each file would look like BP72ROAM04, MYOLDENDIE03, BEARHURT07, so on and so forth. I can use .wav and .ogg files.

 

+ So that this gets completed, I ask that you make a claim by the 26th of August. The following bullet point will keep track of claims to the project.

 

No name beside it? It is open to claim! Scroll up to look at the picture above to see what these goobers look like.

Shamblers:

Gutless: @BluePineapple72 - COMPLETED

One-Eyed: @Peccatum Mihzamiz - COMPLETED

Faceless: @myolden - COMPLETED

Dried: @Solmyr - COMPLETED

Skull: @Vladguy - COMPLETED

Possessed: @MFG38 - COMPLETED

Possessed 2: @Lippeth - COMPLETED

Unwilling: @NecrumWarrior - COMPLETED

Unwilling 2: @Egregor - COMPLETED

Scarred: @DoctorNuriel - COMPLETED

Hungry: @Demonic Meatball - COMPLETED

Cultist: @LVENdead - COMPLETED

Wight: @Raith138 - COMPLETED

Wight 2: @Egregor - COMPLETED

 

Scientists:

Scientist 1: @Peccatum Mihzamiz - COMPLETED

Scientist 2 @Jark - COMPLETED

Scientist 3: @ABearInThaWoods - COMPLETED

Scientist 4: @MemeMind - COMPLETED

Female Scientist 1: - COMPLETED

Female Scientist 2: UNCLAIMED

Female Scientist 3: @LVENdead - (Partner) - COMPLETED

Female Scientist 4: @Major Arlene - COMPLETED

 

Soldiers:

Soldier 1: (Brown Armor w/ Hair): @BluePineapple72 - COMPLETED

Soldier 2: (Brown Armor Bald): @Quin - COMPLETED

Soldier 3: (Black Armor Bald): @ShallowB - COMPLETED

Soldier 4: (Black Armor Bald): @Lippeth - COMPLETED

 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Edited August 14 by BluePineapple72

[LVENdead]

Put me down for cultist!

[Grizzly Old B]

Huuuuuungryyyyyyy! Braaaaaiiiiinzzzzz!

[Egregor]

I smell flesh!

[Raith138]

Put me down for hungry

[Solmyr]

Put me down for dried.

[LateNightPerson]

Put me down for a soldier.

[MFG38]

I'm interested. I'll take any of the shamblers.

Edited August 5 by MFG38

[NecrumWarrior]

I am unwilling. 

[Grizzly Old B]

12 minutes ago, Raith138 said:

Put me down for hungry

 

I already applied for hungry above. (In zombie speak, that is.)

[Raith138]

1 minute ago, Grizzly Old B said:

 

I already applied for hungry above. (In zombie speak, that is.)

I will take the wight then

[Vladguy]

I call dibs for mr skullivan :)

[LadyMistDragon]

FemSci 2 for me

[Lippeth]

Possessed! Possessed 2, actually.

Edited August 5 by Lippeth

[Demonic Meatball]

Gimme wight plz

Edited August 5 by Demonic Meatball

[DoctorNuriel]

I'd like to go for the scarred please! :)

[Bald Cyberdemon]

Can I go for a Cultist? I feel like I can make some fun guttural sounds for a shambler zambie

DANG IT! didn't realize all the shamblers got taken, Scientist 3 it is then (sorry for all the edits Pineapple)

Edited August 5 by No-Man Baugh

[Quin]

Brown-armored bald please!

[BluePineapple72]

1 hour ago, Demonic Meatball said:

Gimme wight plz

This was taken by Raith above

[Demonic Meatball]

Can I have Soldier 4 then please ?

[ABearInThaWoods]

Scientist 3

[ConMan3222]

Scientist 3 (2023)

[LVENdead]

My partner would like to record female zombie sounds if that's permitted. She doesn't have a DW account.

[BluePineapple72]

16 hours ago, ConMan3222 said:

Scientist 3 (2023)

This was claimed by ABearinThaWoods above you

[BluePineapple72]

I am currently implementing what has been submitted to be insofar, I just wanted to congratulate and thank you all for an incredible job. This is sounding fantastic!!

 

Sometime in the near future, I will have a conversation with the community about whether or not it will be fruitful to compress these sounds (and the rest of the sounds in the project) to 11025 Hz for an 8bit sound. Two pros of that are that we will essentially nuke the file size to something much much smaller (we're floating around 160,000 KB rn) and we'll get a classic sort of sound to the wad. A negative is that we'll lose out on some audio detail and 'immersive' sounds. Something to consider in the future for sure.

 

Don't worry about sending compressed variants of your audio, this is something I can do on my end, but I am open to having opinions shared about what will be the best option for this project.

[Raith138]

On 8/5/2024 at 9:39 AM, BluePineapple72 said:

 

Wight: @Raith - Due 8/8/24 - 11:59PM

 

It appears you pinged a 20 year old account that has 2 posts lol

[BluePineapple72]

Here is a quick preview of some of the zombies that I've implemented insofar!

 

[BluePineapple72]

Today is day three since slot claims, these zombies are due by 11:59PM est tonight else the slots will be dropped and reopened:

 

Shamblers:

@MFG38 - Possessed

@NecrumWarrior - Unwilling

@Grizzly Old B - Hungry

@Raith138 - Wight

 

Scientists:

@ABearInThaWoods - Scientist 3

@LadyMistDragon - Female Scientist 3

 

Soldier:

@LateNightPerson - Soldier 3 (black armor w/hair)

 

There is still a vacancy in the Female Scientist 2 slot! If you have a girlish voice and want to be zomberific please claim below!

["JL" was too short]

Hope it's okay for me to ask here rather than necroing the project thread:

Some of the zombie sprites from this project look like things I'd like to use, but so far I can't find where it says anything in either the project thread or text file about the permissions (or lack thereof) for doing so— what is the policy regarding that?

[BluePineapple72]

13 minutes ago, "JL" was too short said:

Hope it's okay for me to ask here rather than necroing the project thread:

Some of the zombie sprites from this project look like things I'd like to use, but so far I can't find where it says anything in either the project thread or text file about the permissions (or lack thereof) for doing so— what is the policy regarding that?

 

All of the scientists come from Realm 667 linked here under Former Scientists

 

I do not remember where I got the zombie soliders/shamblers from. I do know that I got them from @ShallowB but I have lost the link as I don't think they are in a repository anywhere.

 

Since I've been procrastinating working on this project for 2 years I don't remember if these zombies were open use of if I got individual permission to use them for this project. I'll ask around and get back to you on that so that I can also put information in my text file.