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You are misguided, there is a whole wealth of theoretical barriers preventing transforming the timbre of a voice (or anything) into something completely different purely though editing a single recorded sound. You can pitch-shift based on formants, you can filter out specific frequencies with something like Audiosculpt, but you can't do what you are suggesting out of a purely fictional/hollywood context.

Even in a hypothetical sense, just imagine for a second the implications of being able to transform your voice to sound like someone elses if it were possible. If you can't think of one good reason why it'd be a bad idea in 5 seconds then you might need a new brain.

The hair grows ever longer...

There's a long and short answer for this, the sort one being 'there is no software to do the kind of thing you want to do'. The long answer involves an explanation as to why, but I haven't got the time to write it out... I'm sure someone else with the technical expertise in this area will though.

And me, who's just a puppet for his nefarious schemes.

Unfortunatly there's no way I'll be able to make an Australia Mittens this year, as much as I'd like to come. The previous three have been highlights of my life, let alone the years they were held!

If there's a Brittens i'll be there for sure this time though.

Back to Hitch Hikers...

3) Try to have a NARRATOR! This will really allow them to include the funniest bits of the book (like the comparison form the Encyclopedia Galactica to the Guide about alcohol)>

The 'narrator' thing struck me as one of the problems with translating the book to a visual medium (aka the tv series), because most of the book is essentially narration. To make this work you have to take all sorts of compromises, and the visual aspect seemed to detract from the brilliance of the writing.

Incidently, the screenplay was written by someone who's not read the books and wanted to fill in the gaps in the radio series.

Remember, the books came after the original radio series.

All sorts of conflicting information in my head! I thought the first book was written before the radio show, and after that Adams went back and rewrote stuff. And the publishers released it in an unfinished state because they couldn't be bothered to wait any more months for him to finish writing the damn thing?

To be honest, I don't know if this exists online anymore, and if it isn't I don't have any plans to salvage and fix up the copy I have on my backup hard drive.

I _do_ have plans to remake it after TJHpart 2 comes out however (which will be lightyears ahead in terms of... well... everything), and as proud as I am to have actually made a game, Part 1 in it's current form is a little embarrasing

Sorry to disappoint.

My girlfriend is a rabid Douglas Adams fan and has been giving me long lectures on why the film is going to be a terrible representation of the books. Having not read the four novels and being unimpressed with the TV series (which I was forced to watch) I can only trust her judgement.

(As a side note, when watching the series I got the impression that the source material was complete genius, but got lost in translation to a low-budget visual form. I will read the books someday though, I've made a promise! Perhaps the TV series will make more sense afterwards.)

As we're on the subject, can anyone recommend a very good SNES style rpg done with any of the engines that are around? None of the ones I tried that had been done with RPG Maker or RPG Toolkit ever inspired me to continue playing for more than 3 minutes or so, and the only promising one I've ever come across doesn't seem to be alive anymore (http://www.fenixblade.com).

John Peel (RIP)

Eternal Darkness suffered from dire repetativeness, despite the nice sanity effects which added nothing to the gameplay. I was disappointed really, it was an interesting concept but the design was horrible.

Thanks for putting that together Mills. Many great memories of Mittens 2004 that I wish I could go back and re-live.

Truly one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life, something I'll still be remeniscing about in 50, 60 years time.

It wasn't the 3dness of EMI that made it a bad game for me, it was the complete disregard for the atmosphere and characterisations of the first two games. Monkey Island 3 at least had some team members that worked on the first two games so some of the original spirit was retained, but for EMI it felt as though it was made by an incompetent team that were just trying to ape Bill Tiller's art style in 3D and fill a jumbled mess of ideas around it that featured mangled locations, characters and concepts from the first game.

It didn't even feel remotely pirate-y.

III is worthy for its soundtrack alone. It is submile. (edit: submile? i'm sure i ment 'sublime')

The rest of the game has a lot of atmosphere too... not as dark as 2 though. It feels piratey and carribean-y though, which EMI doesn't.

I've never really been able to get into anime. I've tried watching various 'well known' titles and they've all made the skin try to crawl off my body in embarrasment. I guess I lose.

I've seen Spirited Away though, which I'd rate as one of my favourite films ever. Does that count? I've always had the impression that saying "Spirited Away, I love that film!" will result in hundereds of hardcore anime devotees all groaning and shaking their heads and recommending a million titles that are supposedly much better (yet will probably trigger the aformentioned skin-crawling condition)...

Yeah, Soul Music was a horrible adaptation. It didn't transfer well to cartoon

As Fuzzpilz said, it's not the big 'omissions' that are the problem with the films, it's mainly the unnecessary changes they made to things that don't impact the main story arc but completely mis-represents situations in Tolkien's works. It's like because it's a big, epic, grand story they had to go and take the subtle things and make them BIG and LOUD and IN YOUR FACE! Case in point, the skeleton and the well in Moria. Galadriel's ooga-booga scene in Lothlorien. The eye of Sauron being everywhere and acting like a damn spotlight. Saruman controlling the weather on Caradhras. Legolass doing a 'Fred Flintstone' silly action sequence. I do love the films, but there are so many annoyances that could have been avoided had Peter and the script writers discarded that annoying Hollywood mentality. 

Also additions of some bloody awful lines: If you want him come and claim him!

I'm sure the books didn't have that vile soundtrack either....

Lord of the Rings?

I think the essential MAGS game to play is Spellbound.

yes, musical theory is an asset...please don't just use the white notes

Got something against modes?