page_title: Starship Titanic
section_title: Sound
hierarchical_section_title: Starship Titanic / Development / Sound
caption_attribution_description: English: Terry Jones reading in 2007
context_page_description: Starship Titanic is an adventure game developed by The Digital Village and published by Simon & Schuster Interactive. It was released in April 1998 for Microsoft Windows and in March 1999 for Apple Macintosh. The game takes place on the eponymous starship, which the player is tasked with repairing by locating the missing parts of its control system. The gameplay involves solving puzzles and speaking with the bots inside the ship. The game features a text parser similar to those of text adventure games with which the player can talk with characters.
  Written and designed by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy creator Douglas Adams, Starship Titanic began development in 1996 and took two years to develop. In order to achieve Adams's goal of being able to converse with characters in the game, his company developed a language processor to interpret player's input and give an appropriate response and recorded over 16 hours of character dialogue. Oscar Chichoni and Isabel Molina, artists on the film Restoration, served as the game's production designers and designed the ship's Art Deco visuals. The game's voice cast includes Monty Python members Terry Jones and John Cleese.
context_section_description: Sound designer John Whitehall, who was in charge of the company's sound studio during the recording process, worked with Adams on creating the sound for the game. Whitehall and Adams had previously collaborated in the radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the BBC, where Whitehall was a studio manager. The voice cast included actors Laurel Lefkow, Quint Boa, Dermot Crowley and Jonathan Kydd, who voiced the bot characters in the game.
  Monty Python members Terry Jones and John Cleese also lent their voices to characters in the game. Jones, a longtime friend of Adams, provided the voice of the parrot,
  
  while Cleese (who is credited as "Kim Bread")
  
  voiced the bomb.
  
  Actor Philip Pope was also involved, having voiced the Mâitre d'Bot.
  
  Adams himself also did voice acting for the game,
  
  voicing the Succ-U-Bus
  
  and Leovinus.
  The ambient music for the game was composed by Paul Wickens, who is also a member of Paul McCartney's touring band.
  
  Adams and Wickens were acquainted from school, but lost touch until Adams saw him performing with McCartney.
  
  Adams also wrote additional soundtrack himself, including the music in the Music Room puzzle, which was based on a tune he had written on the guitar years earlier.
caption: Terry Jones voiced the parrot and wrote the tie-in novel
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