How difficult would it be to add sound effects to Ivan?
I fondly remember playing the first Ultima games back in the day, when your characters didn't even have icons for weapons. What really made the game satifying back then was the SOUND. If you missed a creature, you would hear this incredibly disappoint swoosh. If you hit, a shield would materialize over the creature hit and you'd hear this resounding "Whack!" It was like making a 3-point shot from the other side of the basketball court. How hard would it be to add simple sounds to IVAN? One other thing I enjoyed doing was substituting lame voices for war grunts or other battle-keyed noises in CPRGs which had simple sound effects. Made the whole effect more campy.

Those were the days when story was all and the graphics really didn't matter. Nowadays game companies try to foist off bug-ridden, story-devoid-albeit-graphically superior stuff for a high price.

Eh? Graphics matter? Only to the idiots that play CS, or those obnoxious kids that imitate FPS Doug.

No they don't.

well, you can't say graphics don't matter, but gameplay is much more important.

I'm satisfied with just a "R" for Red Dragon, as long as the story and gameply keeps me engaged.

To add sounds, you need two things: :arrow: The sounds themselves. :arrow: You need to program the game to play them. You have to use some library (I think SDL_mixer would be good, since IVAN already uses SDL), and programming it should not be very hard (just initialize it, and add appropriate playSound function calls where appropriate).

Awesome. Im gonna try your graohical mode sometime.