The continued adventures of Obiwan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker! In this episode, Anakin learns some dark, dark things about himself… then he gets married! Yay!
Had a dream last night about... my Blockland deathmatch gamemode of all things. Those were good times, I should like throw a bunch of my friends at that game and just play that gamemode outta nowhere one day.
I absolutely adore CDs that are just collections of resources - texture CDs filled with random pictures, sound CDs filled with sounds, they're all amazing. Truly a by-gone time, a time I miss more than most.
The thing is, you'd go out and buy these CDs from random companies, then you'd just... get loads of stuff to use. Vaguely related. And the thing on-top of that, is everyone would also buy that CD, and you'd all use similar assets.
I was doing some searching around on teh interwebs and found a Blockland Forums post, and I think I've hit the holy grail. Not only does it include just about every sound used in my favorite childhood game, it includes so much... crufty stuff.
It's the "Expert Software's 5000 Sounds" pack. It appears to be from 1998, putting it just before the Activision acquisition of Expert Software.
I doubt that it's the source for every sound included in it, I mean, it includes a rather familiar sound-
-which is used as the 'gun-shot' sound of Doom 64, and Doom 64 released in 2007.
Anyway, yes, good amount (5000) of sounds, very nice sounds as-well, but today's post is more focused around the music included. It appears to have 'After School Special' of Blockland, which also happens to be longer than what was included in Blockland. The full song, perhaps?
But it also has a lot of new stuff (read: stuff I've never seen before). And they're all really, really lovably goofy. Take a listen, to what might be the most "90's point and click quirky shop music" I've ever heard:
Or, what sounds like a lullaby of the soviet national anthem.
It has a lot. I encourage you to download the pack (torrent & seed to be kind towards Archive.org's servers :) ) and take a peek yourself. It's the best sound pack I've come across. Now, just to find a physical copy...