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#1 Good luck with the project!

As a professional sound designer, I have to point out a few things. Bear in mind that this is meant as constructive criticism.

How is OGG lower-quality than MP3? From my experience, an .ogg will take less space than an MP3 of equivalent quality. At low (64kbps) or high (192kbps) rates, the ogg will usually sound significantly better than the MP3 equivalent. At 128 kbps, both formats sound pretty similar. Maybe specifying the bitrates would make it easier for people to choose the version they want.

That being said, most online sound libraries offer .wav and .mp3 for every sound; any sound designer would avoid paying for compressed files without a second thought.

Have you made some research which leads you to believe that people want to pay for lower-quality sound effects when the full-quality version is readily available?

Take a look at sound-ideas.com which have been in the business for decades. Any sound, any length is sold at full-quality with a maximum price of 4.99$. 19.99$ for a single sound file doesn't make sense.

The only way I could think that someone would pay for .mp3s or .oggs in their game would be in the form of a genre-specific (FPS, RTS, RPG, etc.) ready-to-use audio pack; by ready-to-use, I mean separated in categories or with the asset files in the case of Torque2D.

Another idea would be a footsteps sound bank with custom code for T3D, making varied-pitch footstep sounds.

Bottom line, as an online sound effects provider, you are competing with free libraries which sound reasonably decent and professional ones which sell top-notch quality for cheaper.

#2 Thanks!

#3 Hey Same to ya!!