I have heard good things about FL "FruityLoops" Studio to make game music, but I don't know if it handles sound effects, though. And I haven't actually used it (though it is installed on my computer, I keep wanting to try it but get distracted :p)

Liking the particle effects, goblin flamethrower!

FL can easily fulfil your needs. almost any package can. With the sound FX keep it simple. One single simple nice wide reverb that you apply on everything. That's in terms of applying fx (which at the most you will need: chorus, flange, a bit of noise, a filter, a delay and a verb) most packages provide this and way way more. you dont "need" it, but yeah sometimes its nice to have presets. I guess.

for the record "a delay", a "reverb", a "flange", a "chorus" are all actually just specialist implementations of a basic delay. I.E. they are the same thing at the core. The point being the more you learn the more realise you need less.

In terms of "making noises" just go for basic oscillators and mangle noise/filtering into it. noisy sound start with noise and work back, harmonious sounds start with pretty and work toward noise.

keep the sounds sparse. lots of top and bottom frequencies not much mid. ( I typify MID as say 600Hz -> 3k for the purposes of the chat)

(REF http://www.dplay.com/tutorial/bands/)
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Midrange
600 Hz - 1.2 kHz

Note how the female voice, naturally brighter, is stronger in this band. But these frequencies aren't particularly critical for dialog, and you can mix music hotter here. Also, musical activity seems more organized in this image than the previous ones: this band contains the harmonics that let you tell one instrument from another.


Band 5
High Midrange
1.2 kHz - 2.4 kHz

This is a critical band for dialog: there's enough harmonic energy to tell most vowels apart, and all of the consonants start around here.
Our example singers are particularly strong in this range because they're trained to sing in the mask, opening resonances in their face to emphasize harmonics. But despite the activity in this range, volumes aren't as loud as they were an octave below.

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save that "MID" space for the warm strings or vocal overlays as the ear responds best to the "vocal" range (think hi bass <- mid -> low top) it's quite a short range of a few thousand k. you'll get a feel for it when you start mixing 20 sounds and they start to sound muddy. scrape out some mid to make space.

I was going to use the Accidental noise function library you used but it creates too much runtime junk for the Compact Framework to use effectively... Thanks for your posts. fascinating. Hope I helped in my own small way.

Twobob.