Comments on: Gnome Stew’s First Contest: Win Custom Sound Effects for Your Game

By: Martin Ralya

Martin Ralya — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:21:21 +0000

This contest is now over — thanks to everyone who entered! Winners will be announced on Wednesday.

By: rwiedeman

rwiedeman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:05:13 +0000

I like to have CD/MP3 tracks that I loop while a certain scene is going on, then click to the next soundtrack at the next scene. I would think specific sounds for specific events would be... corny. But maybe there's a way to pull that off, if used sparingly.

By: penguin133

penguin133 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:02:17 +0000

I like virgil's idea of a mix CD of contemporary music, not sure if it would work for Fantasy however, or even Victorian era? 1940s music does set a "feel" though. I also once played in a game where the GM had his CD of the "Temple of Elemental Evil" game in the computer as background noise, it had a steady background track of rattling chains, creaks, groans, and things going bump in the night, and set the scene beautifully! I also remember a scary game where we, the PCs, spent the night in an eerie Dungeon corridor with a background wailing noise, faint and inexplicable; we found out later that it was totally harmless, the wind blowing across the neck of a bottle would you believe, but it produced a feeling of genuine alarm even though it was only described to us; if it had actually been playing in the background it might have really had us wetting our pants! Ian Winterbottom

By: joshx0rfz

joshx0rfz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:53:48 +0000

I like sound more then DaveTheGame. Would these be usable for a video game? That's what I'm interested in...

By: Virgil Vansant

Virgil Vansant — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:36:07 +0000

I've never used sound effects in a game before, but I am looking to make a mix CD of music from 1947 to help set the mood of my next campaign. And some sound effects coming from creatures That Man Was Not Meant To Know would work nicely, too!

By: MadBrewLabs

MadBrewLabs — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:03:46 +0000

It would be pretty nifty to incorporate sound effects into a virtual game table...

By: Kimari

Kimari — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:01:27 +0000

The prize is certainly interesting. Those sound effects could come really handy for my next project =)

By: Vampir

Vampir — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:36:57 +0000

I've never used music in a game, I hear a lot of people do it but I was never into music that much... might have to change that, I don't know :/

By: Storyteller

Storyteller — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:27:21 +0000

Huzzah! I heavily use music in my games and would love to get some SFX going. I already have a great idea!

By: ebertran

ebertran — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:46 +0000

I have tried this, there is a usenet newsgroup dedicated to SFX, and you can get some good stuff on there... galloping horses, swords clashing, stuff like that... if you have an audio editor on your pc, you can make all sorts of things like this. It's pretty cool. I had a lot of SW SFX I ripped from games and stuff, that also work great for a sw game. Nothing beats scaring your young jedi PC, standing in a dark chamber and seeing the player's face as he listens to the hiss of a red lightsaber igniting behind him... good stuff this contest...

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:16 +0000

Great idea! Not sure how I’d use sound effects, but I’m curious about it now.

For those interested, here’s a site that has some free sound effects:

http://partnersinrhyme.com/

By: The Sound of Gnomes : Critical Hits

The Sound of Gnomes : Critical Hits — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:03:02 +0000

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By: CoarseDragon

CoarseDragon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:48:26 +0000

This is a great contest. Normally I do my own SFX but this would be very cool.

By: questing gm

questing gm — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:15:59 +0000

I WANT FREE STUFF! Ok....that worked.

By: penguin133

penguin133 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:27:58 +0000

Just thought of another application for SFX, apropos of a comment I just made in mixing SF and Fantasy, the sounds could give the atmosphere of both or either? What does an Elven Archer or plated Paladin think when he starts to heare eerie, SF-ish sounds around him, or a disembodied voice in his head (Speakers!), or the doors hiss-SLIDE open a la Star Trek? What does he think is making those "lightning" noises, or what (or who) is that wierd looking Monster (?) with all the arms or three legs? It might be an Alien "Ally" if he can be restrained from skewering it?! Those sounds could just give the clue? I don't remember whether anyone (including me) has mentioned the idea of having Character themes, yet? Ian