For the third year in a row, the sound design company SONNISS is giving away a substantial amount of free SFX material in celebration of the annual Game Developer’s Conference (currently being held in San Francisco, California). The latest release is called #Game Audio GDC Bundle Part 3 and contains 20 GB worth of premium quality sound effects.
The library of over 20 GB of effects tailored towards video game developers is available for download via Dropbox, Torrent, Google Drive, and direct links as well. This is the largest free sample pack I’ve seen, containing 830 sound effects in total – some as a short as a single footstep and others being extended background noise tracks that set the scene.
See also: Free Cinematic Sound Effects By Generdyn @ 99Sounds!The sheer amount of variety on offer here is staggering, but I wish the labeling on some of the included files was a little bit clearer. Filenames such as EDUcon_B3.wav don’t really clue us in to what we’re about to hear. Thankfully, the majority of the included sounds come with more descriptive labels, so these negative examples are more of an exception.
The included files are organized into folders such as “Sci-Fi Weapons” and “Creaks & Squeaks” but also titled by the name of the sample pack they originated from. Suffice to say there are a lot of folders to shuffle through in order to find what you’re looking for. Searching by text is probably a better method.
All of the included samples are 100% royalty-free for personal or commercial use, and no attribution is needed. The only stipulation is that you do not sell any of these samples “as they come”, which is a standard rule in sample and stock music licensing. It appears that SONNISS does not keep promotional free libraries on their site forever (although you can still grab their amazing freebie released last year), so if you could use more sound effects, I would check this out sooner than later.
#Game Audio GDC Bundle Part 3 is available for free download via SONNISS (14.8 GB download size, ZIP archive, contains 830 sound effects in 24-bit WAV format).
7 Comments
Samuel
onLooks like a nice selection of sound effects here, I like it :)
Tomislav Zlatic
onIt’s very good, definitely worth the download.
heavymetalmixer@gmail.com
onI’ll start downloading 2016 and 2017 from here, this looks awesome. I’ll search for 2015 on torrents.
Roman
onThis library saved my life yesterday! Great stuff.
Tomislav Zlatic
onCool! :) It never hurts to have more SFX on your HDD.
Roman
onIndeed. Going to get their other two packs.
Chris
onThis is good stuff!
To get the previous 2 torrent files just replace “GameAudioGDCPart3.torrent” in the link on the sonnis website with “GameAudioGDCPart2.torrent”
and then “GameAudioGDCPart1.torrent”.