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256 NES Samples

Chris B — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:56:22 +0000

A collection of 256 short percussive samples produced by an emulation of the 2A03 soundchip used in the NES console in 48kHz 16-bit WAV format.

You are free to use these samples for any purpose, but please don’t redistribute them in their original form.

Blarg VSTi Released

Chris B — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:48:54 +0000

It’s a VSTi synthesizer for 32-bit Windows. Click here for more information and demo download.

Chompston Gameplay Video

Chris B — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:00:37 +0000

Video of my recently completed game Chompston, a single-screen maze game made mainly in order to experiment with procedural level generation and a music system based on playing sound effects in key and in sync with XM format music.

Pterosaur VSTi Updated

Chris B — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:26:35 +0000

Pterosaur VST synth is updated with polyphonic mode and a few other new features. Get it here.

Generative Abstract Pixel Art

Chris B — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:02:20 +0000

A continuously evolving abstract composition on a 320×176 canvas, produced by dynamically blending a series of random image layers, inspired by Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings.

Windows Download : art-thing.zip

Screens

Dagion

Chris B — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:37:13 +0000

Dagion – a 2D platformer game that was originally made for the TIGSource AGBIC competition in 2010. It’s been lurking untouched on my hard drive in an almost complete state for quite some time now, but I figured it was worth tidying up and making availble.

More info and download here.

Yamaha PSS-560 Percussion Samples

Chris B — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:40:16 +0000

More sounds from the archives. This is a full set of percussion samples recorded from a PSS-560 PortaSound keyboard produced by Yamaha in the ’80s.

18 PCM sounds sampled at 48 kHz in 16-bit WAV format.

Download: pss-560_percussion_samples.zip

Assorted Ambiences

Chris B — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:06:28 +0000

A collection of 12 atmospheric drones and soundscapes, originally created as assets for the Assemblee competition hosted at TIGSource.

The sounds are all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so you can use them for whatever you want as long as you give me a mention.

30 second previews of all the sounds.

Download from Freesound.org.

Procedural Island Generator

Chris B — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:22:57 +0000

I made a little Windows app to test out some code for randomly generating simple islands to be used as the basis for a tile map in a 2D game. Essentially it’s just recolouring some fractal noise generated with a standard midpoint displacement algorithm with a few added tweaks.

Download: islands.zip

In this instance a 128×128 array is seeded with a random value every 16 rows and colums then each 16×16 square is filled in using the midpoint displacement method.

Seeding the border with zeroes before filling in the 16×16 squares guarantees that the result is always an island completely surrounded by water.

Setting the central point to the maximum value makes the generated islands a little more consistent. To ensure that every part of the generated terrain is accessible to the player I remove any isolated sections by performing a simple flood fill from the center in order to identify any disconnected points above the water level.

Finally a boundary of shallow water is added around the coastline to make things look a bit nicer.

Yamaha PSS-80 Rhythm Loops

Chris B — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:04:41 +0000

A complete set of drum loops sampled from a Yamaha PSS-80 keyboard in 48 kHz 16-bit WAV format.

The device features the following preset rhythms using synthesized bass drum, snare and hi-hat sounds: 8 beat, 12 beat, 16 beat, march, samba, swing, tango and waltz.

Download: pss-80_rhythm_loops.zip