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New SoundPad Preview: Ice Planet
🕑 Added 2019-10-22 20:57:47 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
I'm releasing the 23rd SoundPad Ice Planet today in sneak peak mode. This means it's available only via the direct URL listed below. Please share with gaming friends and family but not the internet at large yet as I'm still making some tweaks. I'll let you know when it's live for everyone.
When I first got the idea for this, I created a series of wind sounds, the low constant drone wind, the fearsome blizzard wind, then the interior cave wind and then - I got stuck. I thought I'd made a mistake picking this setting because I literally couldn't think of anything other than winds to be on this planet. Ok, ice. I added some ice sounds.
After another bout of sound designer block, I then I decided to think about what-ifs. What if there was a dungeon here? Maybe it has doors. Maybe a door could be a giant snow boulder that you roll across an opening? Maybe you've got a horse, or some kind of snow beast that you ride. Who or what else could be here?
This is why the word 'planet' gets added to many of the SoundPad names. It gives me a way to get 'unstuck'. Freed from the boundaries of creating something actual I can be a little more creative and bend some of the rules.
I believe this is fairly genre agnostic. You can play sci-fi games on barren frozen worlds, you can play D&D (I read about the frostfell environment for the first time) Modern games set in the actual polar regions even. As long as it's cold I think it will work.
I'll be making a few tweaks over the next day or so. After it goes live I'll add these sounds to the Custom SoundPad tool so you can play with the almost 800 sounds there.
Thank you all, as always, for your continued support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Tabletop Audio
This is live now! - Tim
Stu Driver
This is really useful. I also like the feature of being able to "broadcast" to players; should make running online games so much better. Excellent work! Please keep it up. You are making something really special. :)
Jeffrey P
+1. This really is exceptional. I think I'm going to start using more of the Soundpads in my games because of the flexibility. I just flicked on Wind: Howl, Singing Crystals, Ice Creaks, and Music Tension and I have a fabulous inhospitable environment.
Myron Dietz
This is really good. The wind sounds are spot on. If you are looking for inspiration/ideas, the sound of x-c skis/downhill skis/sled on snow, Ice skates, the whoomph of something big falling into deep snow, random cracking of freezing trees in a forest. Crystal/icicle shattering.
