Traveller phone themes

[Scarecrow]

I recently got a data cable to connect my mobile phone to my PC and it's opened up all sorts of customisation possibilities.

At the moment I have given it a sort of hybrid, Star Trek and Doctor WHO them.

It occured to me, however that a Traveller theme might be cool.

Maybe for startup and shutdown have an animated GIF of a red Imperial SUN being drawn on a white background and then have a static image for the wallpaper (or even a cycled animated one).

Sound effects would be fairly rudimentary sci-fi sounds but it'd be nice to have something Traveller-ish. Like maybe on startup a female (aren't they always female?) computer voice saying something like,'Imperial Communications Network Online'.

Anyone else got any ideas. I'm happy to have a stab at the graphics. It's really quite simple. Sound is a bit beyond me though, I'm afraid, at least creating new ones is.

Crow

 

[Maladominus]

Hmm....

Background image for me:

The Solomani Wheel-cross

Sound? "SolSec Network initiating user ID scan now...."


Sound bytes... hmm... we convince some guy or lady who has a good "television quality voice" to do short sound bytes into a microphone. Then from my understanding, most modern cell phones can use MP3 format and convert them to ringtones?

 

[Scarecrow]

Howzabout this for a start?

It only plays once so if you miss it, you'll need to refresh the page.

Crow

 

[parmasson]

Cool!
Next we need a series a desktop themes and wallpapers!

 

[fredofmars]

I'd be happy to send voice samples to someone if they want to work on sounds.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Sexy female voices are A Bad Idea if you have a wife/girlfriend (trust me, I've been there...)

I'm working on a rotating sunburst.

 

[fredofmars]

Well, there's female and then there's "sexy female". Some people would object to the "sexy female" voice, but few would object to ordinary female voices.

A lot of that is in the ear of the hearer, but I suspect we could come up with some samples that are less objectionable in general.

 

[archhealer]

Oh hell, if they object to sexy female voices, tell them to grow up.

I'm all in favor of all of this. I've actually had some luck with sci-fi ish sounds and voices just using basic, freeware text-to-speach programs. Sounds all computery, too. It's nifty.

 

[Scarecrow]

Something I knocked up over lunch:

Crow

 

[Andrew Boulton]

 

[Scarecrow]

That's lovely!

I'm trying to think of something to do with the Solomani cross.

Crow

 

[Chuck Anumia]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:

Hey Andrew?

Could this be your new Avatar?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

It could if we could use our own!