Editing Starship Titanic (section)

===Sound===

[[File:Terry Jones.jpg|thumb|[[Terry Jones]] voiced the parrot and wrote the tie-in novel]]

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 (actor)|Jonathan Kydd]], who voiced the bot characters in the game.{{sfn
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}} [[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,<ref name="NYT">
{{cite news
|last1=Herz
|first1=J.C.
|title=GAME THEORY; From Hitchhiker Spoofs to Starship Titanic
|url=https://nytimes.com/1998/04/09/technology/game-theory-from-hitchhiker-spoofs-to-starship-titanic.html
|access-date=21 September 2017
|work=[[The New York Times]]
|date=9 April 1998}}
</ref> while Cleese (who is credited as "Kim Bread")<ref name=Credits /> voiced the bomb.<ref name="PCMag">
{{cite magazine
|last1=Cruickshank
|first1=Alex
|title=Starship Titanic: a Douglas Adams oddity
|magazine=[[PC Magazine (British magazine)|PC Magazine UK]]
|date=July 1998
|issue=7
|page=403
}}
</ref> Actor [[Philip Pope]] was also involved, having voiced the Mâitre d'Bot.{{sfn
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}} Adams himself also did voice acting for the game,<ref name="Kotaku" /> voicing the Succ-U-Bus<ref name="Edge" /> and Leovinus.<ref name=Credits />

The ambient music for the game was composed by [[Paul Wickens]], who is also a member of [[Paul McCartney]]'s touring band.<ref name="Newsweek" /> Adams and Wickens were acquainted from school, but lost touch until Adams saw him performing with McCartney.{{sfn
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}} 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.{{sfn
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