The episode is a pretty fun time, so I encourage you to give it a listen. A decade later, there's still no game that sounds like it. Ironically, Rosenfeld's DIY workarounds for more traditional sound effects resulted in a unique soundscape that has stood the test of time. I came away from the episode with a stronger appreciation for how hard it must be to make a game sound distinct when you're an independent creator with limited resources. Gunshots are themselves micro explosions, so it's really an inspired solution. It has more bass, like you can tell it's not producing some big fireball. Creeper explosions do sound pretty strange compared to a traditional kaboom. This one really threw me for a loop, but it makes total sense.
'I didn't have explosion sounds, but a thing you can get on the internet very easily is gunshot sounds,' he said. Oh, and Creeper explosions? Those are pitched-down gunshots. Zombies sound pretty gross as they meander by my front door. So I just gurgled into a microphone.' Is this what it's like to be a sound designer-constantly thinking about how you can use the weird sounds coming out of your body? Well, it worked out. 'I had a horrible flu, my throat was shot. It turns out the sickly moans of Minecraft zombies are more accurate than you'd think.
