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The Nocturne

WOOOO! BIG NEWS! The BBC Sound Effects library is now FREE TO EVERYONE! This is amazing news for indie devs... sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

EDIT: So, it appears my enthusiasm got the better of me and it's not "free", unless you are a student or non-commercial project. :( Still good for game-jams and prototypes, but ... sigh... sorry...

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.ukBBC Sound EffectsBBC Sound Effects

@NocturneGames @sarahdalgulls According to the terms, it's "For non-commercial, personal or research purposes" or "For formal education purposes while you are a student or a member of staff of a school, college or university".
It is not free for everybody, and the BBC have lawyers who can be impatient about abuse.
sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.ukBBC Sound EffectsBBC Sound Effects

@NocturneGames I read the licensing information and don't think this is of any use for indie devs.

edit: sadly comments to federate, so I only saw the other comments to the same effect after i visited your post on the original site. Btw. you can edit you post to include the license trouble information.

@Tom_ofB Hey thanks for reminding me I can edit the post. I have done just that to clarify that "free" isn't quite correct (sadly).

@NocturneGames is this a new development? I thought this had been available for a few years already.

@NocturneGames When I got a copy, I was listening to the laugh tracks and totally recognized them from BLACK ADDER b/c even though that show is the best, they ran that sh!t until the wheels came off.

@NocturneGames @Nazani interesting you can create “mixes” of sounds so easily

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Video Games inspired by 70s British SF is the next logical step.

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I wanted to be excited but… lousy collection, mediocre search, browsing essentially nonexistent, and the audio seemingly recorded by interns with iPhone 1s or something 🤷‍♂️

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Bookmark the site, download good audio. Good news.

@NocturneGames Some of the pricing doesn't sound too bad, either way I don't have commercial projects so these are brilliant for my needs.

@NocturneGames Freesound has long been my goto but this is a valuable collection.

Just wish the licensing was a bit more explicit with a true open license declaration. Reading the terms sounds like:

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.ukBBC Sound EffectsBBC Sound Effects

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It's amazing how little actual tech was used in the early days of the Radiophonic Workshop.
They pioneered quite a lot actually.