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If you want the sound of birds or a busy city, it’s much harder than you think to go record it in real life. With the internet, we have access to millions of files. First, it’s important to understand how you allowed to use sounds as we will be posting your games on the VGDC website.

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If a sound effect, music, or picture has these symbols, you are free to use someone’s files because you have their permission:

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If it says “Attribution” or “By” or has any of these symbols, you will have to put the author’s name in the credits.

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Now that we have explained that, let’s talk about using free sounds…

Free Sound Websites

There are a lot of websites that let you download “free” stuff.
Some of them have viruses or bad stuff so please only use what we tell you to use.

 

FreeSound.org

Freesound.org is a very popular site that has new sounds every day. Search for sounds in it to use in your game. Try to use sounds that have the ZERO. That's a license that basically says you can use it for whatever you want.You will need a login to download sounds.

Freesound.org is a very popular site that has new sounds every day. Search for sounds in it to use in your game. Try to use sounds that have the ZERO. That’s a license that basically says you can use it for whatever you want.

You will need a login to download sounds.

OpenGameArt.org

This is actually a great site for more than just sounds, but the sounds of this website are specifically made to be used for video games.https://opengameart.org/sounds

This is actually a great site for more than just sounds, but the sounds of this website are specifically made to be used for video games.

https://opengameart.org/sounds

SoundBible.com

This is another free resource for sounds.- soundbible.com There's a lot of great uploaded content, but pay attention to what you click. Some stuff may look like buttons but they are just ads.Click only the icons that look like these:

This is another free resource for sounds.- soundbible.com There’s a lot of great uploaded content, but pay attention to what you click. Some stuff may look like buttons but they are just ads.

Click only the icons that look like these:

Assignment

Make or find a sound effect for one of these .GIFs and upload it:


Name this one RobotFireball:

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Name this one ThreePunch:

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Name this one MegaJump:

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