Game Design – Finding stock and free sound effects and music for casual games

Last week I was trying to find stock music and sound effects for my physics puzzler games for the iOS platform. The game is in its final stages and we needed some kick ass sounds for it. Trying to find good free casual game music and sound effects is a difficult task. Here are some of the sites and tools that I found really helpful to create casual game sound effects and music.

Stock casual game SFX and BGM sites

• Soundsnap.com
• Soundrangers.com

Free casual game SFX and BGM sites

• Opengameart.org
• freesound.org

Tools for creating casual game SFX and BGM

• Garageband for iPad
• Mixcraft for PC and Linux
• Wavepad Sound Editor

Offshored comics – stand and deliver

Don’t you just hate it when people do this at work. It’s like they dump all etiquettes before coming to work.

Created using Create a Comic for iPhone (www.tiltedchair.com)

Santa uses facebook – comic

Looks like this year not only did Santa use Facebook to figure out who’s been good and bad but also delivered some presents before time

IT Underworld cartoon – Santa takes to the cloud

IT Underworld
just published their new comic. I think with all the buzz around
SaaS, this is not too far fetched. Check out
more comics at http://www.itworld.com/blog/phil-johnson

Angry birds finally lands on Nokia Symbian

Finally nokia owners can play angry birds, or can they? It’s out for the nokia N8 and other symbian^3 devices Angry Birds (@RovioMobile) 12/17/10 9:36 PM In case you didn’t notice, Angry Birds Seasons is now available for Nokia Symbian^3 phones in Ovi Store! http://fb.me/N7hSrqef