Sound Effect?

Hi guys, it's got the point in my game where I need to put sound effects in. It's a space game (www.3030deathwar.com) and would have lasers, explosions, etc.

I'm busy trying to find any free ones but there don't seem to be many OR I can't find them.

Where do you guys look? Do you buy them? And if so where from and what is the quality like?

Matt

for the most part, I would suggest finding some free sounds even if they're rubbish, then use a sound editor to warp them into something completely different. It's amazing what can happen when you slow down/reverse/speed up an otherwise normal/crap sound.

try www.findsounds.com

for example, this used to be my voice (or a portion of a sample containing it anyway).

mmmm, ion cannon: http://new.wavlist.com/movies/234/sw5-ioncannon.wav

cheers guys. Oh, by the way. Are you a moderator perty? And if not, *slaps table* why not?

no, I'm not.


I don't know, maybe I smell really bad and they don't want me hanging around all day. (Mind you, I seem to be doing that a lot anyway).

your voice sounds strange. A bit like a laser. So I suppose it was easy for you to just record you voice and pass it off as a laser sound. *slaps table*.

That's right, you have discovered my secret identity. I am in fact... Laserman! *slaps table*


actually, it came from this sound which I recorded as a voice message for a turn in the beta of Naked War.

*EDIT*
just to make things clear, that's not how I sound normally either.

For a SciFi Theme I'd probably install a software synthesizer, you know, one of the real synthesizers, they have a number of "modifiers" and you can plug the order of the effects as you wish. Just like the real synthies, but a software emulation.
eg:
http://www.soundalot.com/freeware/synth/synth.html
http://www.geocities.jp/daichi1969/softsynth/

There is no sound in space. Problem solved.

actually what about being hit by a projectile? You'd hear it on the inside of your hull. Yeah, but ahhhhhhhh.