Zapotec Civilization Audio

[AssassinsQtip]

Hello, I am the one who had first ported over the standalone Zapotec mod for Empires Ascendant from 0.26 to 0.27.  Recently, I had not only ported over to 0.28, but also finalized all the unfinished aspects, such as missing progression actor/templates for the mercs and the zapotec scout units.  Yes, even the lack of cavalry is not an impediment anymore, though you'll have to try it yourself or have someone else try it against you to see what I mean .

For those who wish to try it:
https://github.com/Yet-Again-He/0ad_zapoteca_0.28

As fun as playing the mod has been, that is not the point of this post.  In finishing the mod, I had also finished an ambitious goal for it, one still incomplete for even some of the base 0ad factions: I made a voice pack for it.  It is a full voice pack made with real people for the basic commands as well as alternate phrases for some of them.  As a result of this, two ideas have come into my head.
1.):  I can submit the audio for the Delenda Est mod so that their Zapotec faction (the original foundation for the standalone) can have voices.
2.): As far as I am aware, the zapotec faction is complete and designed for full integration into standard gameplay, even down to having edited duplicates of various json files so that I am not making unnecessary original technologies/auras.  This means that theoretically, the Zapotecs could be added with minimal fuss into Empires Ascendant.

So I wish to ask.  Who do I talk to about potentially adding the voice pack for Delenda Est, and who can I talk to about the possibility of Zapotecs for the base game?

[Thalatta]

16 minutes ago, AssassinsQtip said:

full voice pack made with real people for the basic commands as well as alternate phrases for some of them.

How did you deal with the problems of Proto-Zapotec tonal reconstruction? Which one have you followed?

The list of commands and a reference to their reconstruction would be nice to see.

[guerringuerrin]

1 hour ago, AssassinsQtip said:

 Who do I talk to about potentially adding the voice pack for Delenda Est, and who can I talk to about the possibility of Zapotecs for the base game?

@wowgetoffyourcellphone

[AssassinsQtip]

39 minutes ago, Thalatta said:

How did you deal with the problems of Proto-Zapotec tonal reconstruction? Which one have you followed?

The list of commands and a reference to their reconstruction would be nice to see.

Ah, I should clarify more on the voicepack.

It is all done in nahuatl, I completely avoided the original Zapotec language for several reasons.  Actual hard data that was not guesswork was frankly lacking, and I only later found anything worthwhile after I decided to abandon my original approach.  The modern derivates of the Zapotec language display heavy hispanification and are hydra-headed, and I am no Hercules.  Part of my goal was to make a voicepack that could be potentially utilized by the Maya faction civilization too, and so the emphasis switched to a more universal tongue.

The list of commands I had voiced should be right here in this link:
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Audio_Voice_List
Also as I mentioned in the above post, I made alternatives for several of them, though...that was due to confusing my memory of the list with the commands I was studying within Empires Ascendant itself.

[Thalatta]

3 minutes ago, AssassinsQtip said:

It is all done in nahuatl
Part of my goal was to make a voicepack that could be potentially utilized by the Maya faction civilization too, and so the emphasis switched to a more universal tongue.

I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense.

Nahuatl appeared centuries after the time frame of Empires Ascendant.

The Maya didn't speak Nahuatl. They didn't even speak languages that are part of the broader Uto-Aztecan language family.