Sound in Space

[TeaLeaf]

The Audio Director for SC is Martin Galway.   If you don't recall the name then let's remind you, he's a nephew of the older 'Sir James' and been involved in quite a few video games already and delivered some cracking good sounds:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/12971-Meet-Martin-Galway

Atomic Protector (Optima Software, 1983)
Cookie (Ultimate Play the Game, 1983. An unreleased BBC Micro conversion, unearthed in 2002)[2]
Daley Thompson's Decathlon (Ocean Software, 1984, includes a chiptune cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Rydeen")
Swag (Micromania, 1984)
Sabre Wulf (Ultimate Play the Game, 1984)
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Includes a remix of Jean-Michel Jarre's "Les Chants Magnétiques part IV", Imagine, 1985)
Hyper Sports (Imagine, 1985)
Kong Strikes Back! (The first C64 song ever [composed in 1984] to use arpeggio-effect which soon became an essential part of C64 sound, Ocean, 1985)
The Neverending Story (Ocean, 1985)
Ocean Loader 1 & 2 (The two different songs were actually used in several games released by Ocean, playing during the loading sequence of the game. Ocean Loaders 3 to 5 are composed by Peter Clarke and Jonathan Dunn.) (Ocean, 1985)
Roland's Ratrace (Ocean, 1985)
Mikie (Imagine, 1986, like the arcade game, this includes the arrangements of The Beatles songs "Twist and Shout", "A Hard Day's Night")
Ping Pong (Imagine, 1986)
Comic Bakery (Imagine, 1986)
Stryker's Run (Superior Software, 1986, includes a chiptune cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Rydeen")
Terra Cresta' (Imagine, 1986)
Green Beret (Imagine, 1986)
Helikopter Jagd (Ocean, 1986)
Highlander (Ocean, 1986)
Hunchback II (Ocean, 1986)
Match Day (Ocean, 1986)
Miami Vice (Ocean, 1986)
Parallax (Ocean, 1986)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (Ocean, 1986)
Short Circuit (Ocean, 1986, contains the cover of "Who's Johnny" by El DeBarge)
Arkanoid (Imagine, 1987)
Athena (Imagine, 1987)
Game Over (Imagine, 1987)
Rastan (Imagine, 1987)
Slap Fight (Imagine, 1987)
Yie Ar Kung-Fu II (Imagine, 1987)
Combat School (Ocean, 1987)
Crazee Rider (Superior Software, 1987)
Wizball (Ocean, 1987)
MicroProse Soccer (MicroProse, 1988)
Times of Lore (Origin, 1988)
Insects in Space (Sensible Software, 1989)
Wing Commander 2: Vengeance of the Kilrathi (Origin, 1991)
Ultima VII: The Black Gate (Origin, 1992)
Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (Origin, 1992)
Strike Commander (Electronic Arts/Origin, 1993)
Wing Commander 4: The Price of Freedom (Electronic Arts/Origin, 1995)
The Kilrathi Saga (Electronic Arts, 1996)
Starlancer (Digital Anvil/Microsoft, 2000)

[Padding]

I remember him from the commodore c64, he was very good even then. Two thumbs up!

[Gorion]

Any idea if there's going to be sound in vacuum or if it's going to be like Battlestar Galactica?

[TeaLeaf]

Any idea if there's going to be sound in vacuum or if it's going to be like Battlestar Galactica?

Devs have said that by default there will be sound, but they have also said you will have the option to turn off sound when the camera is 'in space' (although there is some science argument that there should be 'some' sound as space is not a perfect vaccum).