Bird Ladies is a narrative game I worked on between 2018 and 2020 where all the sounds are real-time synthesis. The project is on hold for now until I find someone to write the dialogue content with.
Thanks to Katy for editing all the text content so far.
Check out Baroque Melody Generator 3000, the standalone version of the music system: https://martinbussy.com/bird-ladies-baroque-melody-generator-3000/
Here is a full dialogue explaining the dialogue system and how it drives the bird tweet synthesis in real-time.
The bird tweets are done with Wwise SoundSeed Woosh and they drive the beak opening animation.
In the current state of the project, it’s actually the dialogue text which is driving the sound of the bird chirps. The sound then drives the amplitude of the beak opening animation, like it used to in this video.
That sound synthesiser works way better with longer bird sounds. For the dialogue system, I needed much simpler bird chirps.
2 thoughts on “Bird Ladies”
Great work, the grumpy bird is funny and adds an extra depth of character. Maybe the next episode could have a few different bird voices for different characters!
Thanks, Matt :)
This project is on hold. Maybe I will get back to it if I find someone to write the dialogue with.