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I need some sound effects for my game. Where can I find some? Or any programs that can easily generate them?

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GPWiki has a list of game asset resources. – Josh Petrie Jan 17 '12 at 19:17
Policy change, these kinds of questions are now off topic. There are other resources that are better suited to these kinds of issues. – Tetrad♦ Jan 21 '12 at 20:21

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This is the one I hit up the most: The Free Sound Project

Some others:

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml

http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html

http://amazingsounds.iespana.es/en/

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Freesound is a great resource. Most of it still needs some editing, but they make a great start. – Sean Edwards Jul 14 '10 at 19:28
Freesound is absolutely great. Thanks a bunch for posting it, I already just found some of the most important effects for my game in about five minutes. I might need to chop them up, but that's totally fine! – Christopher Horenstein Jan 11 '11 at 20:27
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SFXR is a neat little tool for quickly & easily generating basic sound effects. It's a downloadable tool, but someone ported it to Flash, so you can use it online as well.

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That was a fun way to spend five minutes playing around :P – BarrettJ Jul 14 '10 at 19:40
Same thing I posted ( gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/8/… ), but thanks for mentioning the Flash version – Bryan Denny Jul 14 '10 at 20:15
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Pick up a cheap microphone, download Audacity and go wild!

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Freesound is a good website to find sounds for a game.

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Really amazing! Thanks! – pimvdb Mar 28 '11 at 19:55
+1 I've used freesound before and it's got some nice sounds and even nicer licenses. – Ray Dey Mar 28 '11 at 19:55
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I know these aren't free now, but they are relatively cheap. I've used them for a few things, and I like the quality. http://www.soundsnap.com/

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Agreed. I use Soundsnap a lot. The question should have read "free or cheap". – Chris Garrett Jul 16 '10 at 18:39
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http://www.bfxr.net/ is excellent for making this kind of thing.

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In addition to the Free Sound Project, I've used sounds from http://www.get-sounds.com

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There's lots of links to various resources (sound, music, art, etc) on the pygame site.

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