I’ve written in many posts about how much I’ve been dreading working on the music for BattleGrid. It’s something I’d like to learn, but I simply have no skill when it comes to music. Unity has been running an “Asset Store Madness” sale this month, and I picked up a “Retro SFX” pack for half price. Some of the sounds in the pack are similar to some I had created using a simple, free tool I found, but were a better quality, so I’ve started using them where they’re better than what I had.
After using the sound effects, I thought, “Hey, maybe there’s music available, too.” So I did some searching and it turns out there’s some very good music on the asset store. I had to wade through tons of music that wasn’t great or didn’t fit the style of BattleGrid, but a few things I found are perfect – almost exactly what I had in my head but could never reproduce in reality.
Even better, as this is an asset store for a game development platform, several of the tracks are designed to be looped or have sections that can be looped, making it easy to make use of the tracks within a game. And the licenses are appropriately flexible, as well: royalty-free use in practically anything as long as the tracks aren’t able to be redistributed.