Game Development News, Tutorials and More
In the news that isn’t new category, audio middleware maker Audiokinetic have added a new free “Indie” tier to Wwise. Wwise is an audio middleware solution, similar to FMod (who also added a free indie tier back in 2020), that is available on most major game engines and supports all …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Sound and Music for Your Games bundle. It is a collection of sound effects and music tracks under a reasonable license from a variety of developers on the GameDev Marketplace. The bundle is organized into tiers: 1$ Tier …
Explorer is a new free product from Sound Particles (learn more here) that provides powerful audio organization and management tools. Able to handle high end audio files (10+ channel IMAX files, 7.1 surround, ambisonic encoded audio and of course stereo and mono) in a variety of different formats, Explorer enables …
Microsoft have just released Project Acoustics, a wave based 3D audio system for the Unity and Unreal game engines. In a method somewhat similar to raytracing, Project Acoustics simulates audio by defining audio properties in your scene and then simulating millions of waveforms within the environment. It only works on …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the BIG Royalty-Free Game Dev Music and SFX Bundle from Dark Fantasy studio. The bundle contains over 50 packs a mix of soundtracks and sound effects in WAV and MP3 formats, often in both mono and stereo encoding. As …
Humble Bundle are running another bundle of interest to game developers, the Mega Sound Designer Loop Crate Vol 3, which features the excellent Mixcraft DAW (which we reviewed here way back when Vol 1 was released). As you may notice from being volume 3 all of the software from this …
Mega Sound Designer Loop Crate Vol 3 (Mixcraft 9) Bundle Read More
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically musicians, in the form of the Music Creators Unlimited Sounds, Loops & Instruments bundle. This is a collection of sales, loops, instruments and effects to create music, including 3 VSTs. The Contents of the bundle include: 1$ Tier …
GodotSfxr is a new plugin released for the Godot game engine. This is a port of the long running sfxr audio tool to run inside the Godot game engine. sfxr is used to quickly and easily create a wide variety of 8bit-esque sound effects using a series of parameters and …
Surge XT is a free and open source synthesizer that started life as a commercial synth from Vember Audio. Surge is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and is implemented as a VST3 module as well as an AU on Mac platforms. The 1.0 version of Surge was recently released, …
FamiStudio is a cross platform, free and open source application for creating old school Nintendo NES / Famicom style soundtracks. We first looked at FamiStudio back in 2020 but since then there have been several new features added including support for Android devices (where it is a free download). The …
