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Bfxr. Make sound effects for your games.

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This is the most awesome thing I've seen here in a while. I'm in serious danger of blowing off the rest of my day to make a video game to stick these into.

It really opens some doors doesn't it :)

This looks like a great implementation of the sfxr tool that's been around for a long time. I've seen it in Flash and there's an EXE version too. This one has some nice new add-ons I haven't seen yet, and a GREAT interface.

If you REALLY want to go nuts, here is a massive list of indie game development tools that can keep you busy for a while:

http://www.mangatutorials.com/forum/showthread.php?742-The-U...

If this is your idea of a great interface then you need help :-)

Seriously, as someone that works with sound and software synths a lot, it looks awful to me. What is it that you like about this?

I'm right ahead of you on that one

Related: http://thirdcog.eu/apps/cfxr (aka Cocoa sfxr) better UI than sfxr and bfxr, but simpler than bfxr.

Original project: http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

SFXR and CFXR have been two of the most useful tools I've had while developing games. So simple yet so flexible. I really recommend them for any game developer.

SFXR/CFXR are so much fun to play with. I'm glad this dev listed them as inspiration.

And this is the javascript one http://www.egonelbre.com/js/jsfx/ :)

Well... was there ever a shortage of 8-bit sounds you can put into your games? These creators have been around years, i remember fiddeling with one 10 years ago when i was playing with RPG Maker 2000...

A High Def Sound Creation Tool would be nice...

... like, say, any synthesizer?

For free, I suggest: Synth1 - www.kvraudio.com/get/214.html

You'll need a VST host, for which I suggest www.reaper.fm

ZynAddSubFX is a very nice sounding, open source synthesizer. The UI is a bit awkward, but it can make some very diverse sounds.

Those of you who are simply enjoying the bleeps and bloops should drop by a music store and buy yourselves a Monotron (or two!) for Christmas. $60 each and you can download the circuit diagrams from Korg, who has designed them to be hackable.

http://www.korg.com/monotron

I just set up a cache of sounds to use in place of verbal responses today - mostly Coins, Lasers and Jumps. They just seem to say so many things better than I can. It has already gotten me into trouble. In other words, it's awesome. Thanks.

This has been around for a while, it's pretty cool nonetheless. I used it for sond effects on a pong game I made while learning C++.

On a side note that's the best way to learn to make games (or a new language for that matter), recreate old games from scratch. You'll also learn some trig and calculus while you're at it.

The one problem with the *fxr family is that it is a cliche already. It's like the official soundtrack to Ludum Dare...

Wow, that is just incredible.

Just randomly hitting a few of the buttons, it produced really excellent 2 x Atari 8-bit style explosions, and as near as damn it, a perfect Defender gunfire effect.

I haven't looked to see if it can do musical notes, but if it can, surely this would be excellent for chiptunes.

Wow cool! Reminds me of this standalone I used to use to make a ton of simple drum sounds and blips to put in trackers...

http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/drumsynth.shtml

Have you seen Sunvox? Tracker/synth/sequencer all in one:

http://www.warmplace.ru/

Lots of fun.

This is pretty awesome. I hit randomize and got this http://goo.gl/EuMtA , I can totally see it as a warp engine, or something like that. I'm going to play with it for a while...

Did same thing and got this: http://bit.ly/vjDZDG This is so awesome. Woah!

This is what "transporters" should have sounded like: http://bit.ly/svTHFI

Really neat extension of sfxr, but man I wish there wasn't that inner scrollbar.

I am going to use the hell out of this site.

I kept hitting randomize and got this: http://t.co/Av3WNjzB

Now I want to make a game around it.

Interesting. By the way, no need for URL shorteners: http://www.bfxr.net/?s=4%2C0.5%2C0.7518%2C0.0237%2C0.1582%2C...

(People avoid URL shorteners here. Keeps the Rick Rolling low.)

Wait what just in time for Ludum Dare 22?

Sweet!

I've been finding the LD entry posts all quite interesting; they often have stuff (like bfxr) that I didn't know about, or at least, didn't know was that popular:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/

You're twelve LDs late to the party. ;-)

Whoo! They finally added history so you can keep track of a few sfx that interest you, very cool. :)

Truly awesome, but could need some interface improvements.

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