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GameDev Market vs Freesound

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When comparing GameDev Market vs Freesound, the Slant community recommends Freesound for most people. In the question“What are the best sources of royalty free game assets?” Freesound is ranked 5th while GameDev Market is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Freesound is:

All assets made available through Freesound are required to be licensed under either CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC.

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What are the best sources of royalty free game assets?

Pros

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Offers a good variety of resource types

GameDev Market includes 2D, 3D, UI, and audio resources.

Pro
Creative Commons licensing

All assets made available through Freesound are required to be licensed under either CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-NC.

Pro
Extensive asset information

Each sample has a details page which includes a waveform view, a full-length audio preview, user-assigned tags, author-assigned "pack" grouping, and an author chain ("remixes and sources") for derivative assets.

Cons

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Personal storefronts could have better discoverability

Currently personal storefronts / seller profiles have a simple list of assets. There are no categories, tags, genre-information, type information, etc that could help narrow the list down.

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Basic search

Search only matches keywords with titles. No way to search based on type, color, etc.

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Some assets may have restrictive licenses

Freesound permits uploaders to select the CC-BY license, which disallows the use of DRM, and the CC-BY-NC license, which disallows commercial use entirely. Licenses are prominently displayed on an asset's details page, and represented by a small icon in list views, but there is no option to filter by asset when searching or browsing.