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Closeauthor=yuna21
May I suggest a source? I got most of Enelysion's music from this site:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Have fun. There are 500,000 tracks there, covering every single genre known to man. And they're royalty free.
Oh wow, this site looks awesome, thanks!
ubon
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^^^^^ this, this, this!
don't just robble shit from extant video games, find royalty-free stuff because it exists for the express purpose of small-to-no-budget projects like ours
don't just robble shit from extant video games, find royalty-free stuff because it exists for the express purpose of small-to-no-budget projects like ours
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
CC Mixter is another site with a lot of free-to-use music with open licenses. Good stuff, seems to be very similar to Jamendo. Extremely detailed search criteria. I just searched for music that is free for commerical use, that has female vocals, that is in the jazz genre, that is ambient, that is designed for video game use. I mean I got zero results, because that's a weird-ass combination (ambient jazz with female vocals that loops perfectly? wtf?), but you get the idea.
Newgrounds Audio is supposedly also full of free music. I've been linked to it multiple times. I've never really been able to figure out how to find anything though. The site is flashy and attractive, but hard to use if you're looking for anything more specific than a certain genre. Maybe you'll have better luck than me. On the plus side I've heard they have stricter submission criteria, so I guess there's less low-quality garbage to sift through.
Freesound is good for sound effects. I get most of my sound effects here. It has good search capabilities - you can search by length of the sound effect which I really like - and you can listen to the sounds right from the search results, and download files in like a hundred different file types. Neat.
Newgrounds Audio is supposedly also full of free music. I've been linked to it multiple times. I've never really been able to figure out how to find anything though. The site is flashy and attractive, but hard to use if you're looking for anything more specific than a certain genre. Maybe you'll have better luck than me. On the plus side I've heard they have stricter submission criteria, so I guess there's less low-quality garbage to sift through.
Freesound is good for sound effects. I get most of my sound effects here. It has good search capabilities - you can search by length of the sound effect which I really like - and you can listen to the sounds right from the search results, and download files in like a hundred different file types. Neat.
ubon
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ooh, I just mentioned it in another thread but I have to second the freesound recommendation. most of the stuff you'll find there will take a bit of processing to exactly fit what you want, but with some creativity you can do a lot! just remember that professional foley artists will, for instance, create the sound of shattering bones by recording themselves hacking at a ripe cabbage. lateral thinking!
Yeah, Jamendo is an amazing site. Not only can you download entire albums of music for free, but you can license the work if you wish to use it in a commercial project and support the artists by making a little donation. =) And I'm sure there are some 8-bit tracks there for all the retro-game lovers.
Whoa, awesome sites, Yuna and LockeZ! Thanks :D
I was thinking of the possibility of using the soundtrack of the old NES Silver Surfer game for a project. Most people agree that the game itself is pretty terrible, so I'm not sure how recognizable the soundtrack is. But the soundtrack itself, to me at least, sounds amazing. Though it might be too fast-paced for a normal RPG...
I was thinking of the possibility of using the soundtrack of the old NES Silver Surfer game for a project. Most people agree that the game itself is pretty terrible, so I'm not sure how recognizable the soundtrack is. But the soundtrack itself, to me at least, sounds amazing. Though it might be too fast-paced for a normal RPG...
I definitely understand using music from popular games, especially when your focus is on developing your game. If anyone's currently looking for new game music, the stuff I write is very Final Fantasy like, feel free to check it out: https://soundcloud.com/natasha_gita
Hit me up if you'd like me to write you something similar; I have some time at the moment. :)
Hit me up if you'd like me to write you something similar; I have some time at the moment. :)
