Suggestion: Garden World

[Heinz]

It’s-a me again.

With the SciFi-Player, I can by now basically improvise everything from an hellish molten world to a high-tech capital planet… with one exception: the typical garden world, the new Eden, the perfect colony for mankind. Sometimes I’d need something not (immediately) life threatening, but peaceful and with fluffy animals. And while I’m at wishing, why not go for a pony: I would love to have different ambiences, like the typical Sherwood Forest world, then maybe a peaceful ocean, some “flying manta ray singing whale songs in the sunset” romance, some “glowing forests with alien insects buzzing about”… maybe the plants, some weather effects and some “alien animals” could be separate tracks to combine into different moods on different planets?

Anyway, thanks for reading!

[Steve]

Yeah that would be really useful for my Star Wars games. At the minute I have to use both players so I can set off some environmental ambiance but it would be great if we had some with the sci fi player itself, that way we could make up moods to match any kind of planet/environment.

[benjamin]

OK. Yes. I REALLY need to make a forum section where people can suggest content they want and then people can things they want… AND add details to the suggestions etc

[Heinz]

So, should I copy this text into the new section or can we move this thread there?

[benjamin]

Let me try and move it!

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Yay, it worked!

[Heinz]

Thanks! I just noticed: i could have just moved it myself - the category of a posting is editable for the original poster.

[HECook]

I think the Elven Vale: Day or Elven Vale: Night from the Fantasy player, combined with some of the odd sounds of Witchwood, insect or animal sounds from Farmland, wolves from Storm, or any of the various monster soundsets (for weirder creatures) could give you a pretty good approximation! Add in some sounds from, say the Sci-Fi player’s Running the Net, Nebula, Shipboard, Earth Elemental, Giant Sand Worm, Alien from Alien, and you could make an entire custom mood of any menagerie of alien oddities!

[Heinz]

Thanks for the idea. But since I did not subscribe to the Fantasy Player (in lack of a fantasy game) and would not really want to have two players running even if I did, I don’t think this is a solution for me.
(Though, of course, a selection of already-published fantasy sounds would be totally okay for me, and I even would be willing to purchase single soundsets from the Fantasy Player if it were possible to apply them in my SciFi Player.)

[HECook]

Ah, I understand. (I sometimes run both because I run a Numenera game, which is a sci-fi/fantasy mash-up setting, that that works well for my group.) Hmm… the Earth Elemental set on the Sci-Fi player does have the “Mountain Ambiance” element, which is birds chirping, leaves rustling in the breeze, etc.

[Steve]

A little while back Ben mentioned on Twitter about the players and whether he should create a third player for modern sounds or possibly merge the players back into one. Personally I find it pretty fiddley having both players open as well as my music player and gaming notes so for me I’d love everthing to be merged into one player. What are everyone else’s thoughts on this?

I think it would be great to be able to make custom moods from both soundsets and it would really increase the flexibility of Syrinscape.

[Heinz]

@HECook Ah, that is good to know. I haven’t inspected that soundset too closely yet, thanks for the hint.

@Caldeth Sometimes, on cold winter nights, I find myself dreaming of a custom player in which I can mix the soundsets from both scifi and fantasy how I desire, and maybe add my own background picture in the custom moods set.

[GM_Cody_D]

I think the just a single player is a good idea. Like @Heinz said, mixing both sci-fi and fantasy may be something that one needs for their games but having both up and trying to muddle through 2 players and gm notes can get a little time consuming. I would support that.

[benjamin]

Yeah, It’ll be really easy to blend and mix, once we’ve got the Creator in peoples hands, then people can make mashes and call them a new set that everybody can use = AWESOME!