{"author_name":"oolealealealea","cat":"October Challenge 2013","comments":[{"author_name":"Draygera","time":"October 21, 2013 6:14 pm","epoch":1382397240,"text":"What distro do you use? The last Linux distro I used was Arch Linux and that one is good if you want to fully customize your system.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1382340960,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"37743","p_author":"oolealealealea","p_authorkey":"505330","p_urlkey":"73359","p_title":"Day 22: Sound effects","p_cat":"October Challenge 2013","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1382340960","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"505330","us_name":"oolealealealea","us_username":"oolealealealea","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Although I have a wast library of wav sfx files I accumulated over the years, I’ve seen other game devs use Bfxr<\/a> to create their own effects, so I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n

This is nice, because you own the effect 100% and you don’t need to prove where did you get the audio file. Some of the sites I used to download my sfx in the past are no longer online, and tracking people who made those is impossible. For example, my favorite mod music is Aspirating Milk which I found on modarchive. I tried to contact the author via e-mail in the tracker file, but got no reply. It was probably his address at university or something.<\/p>\n

Bfxr requires Windows or Mac, while I prefer doing my development on Linux. I thought about running it on Wine, but didn’t even bother to try because I found this:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.superflashbros.net\/as3sfxr\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a super easy to use and simple Flash app you can run in your browser. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

These sfx programs produce various simple sound effects. Some complex sound effect can be created by mixing a couple of simple effects in a program like Audacity. I used it to create sfx for Atomic Bomb powerup:<\/p>\n

\"Mixing<\/p>\n

BTW, I basically completed the game, I’m now testing on various Android devices. I’ll probably do the release on Google Play store tomorrow or day after.<\/p>","time":"October 21st, 2013 2:36 am","title":"Day 22: Sound effects"}