Let’s make a BARKPACK!

This asset pack provides a variety of voice lines known as “barks” for game developers to use in their work as NPCs, placeholder audio, or on its own as a partial voice-acting work in projects like visual novels/IFs, RPGs, or even RTS, puzzle, horror, dating, and fighting games.

For Ren'py devs, this asset also includes a .RPY file that quickly labels the files in the voicepacks to be usable with the Smart Barks tool, which inserts barks into a Ren’py project quickly.

This pack also includes a “generic barks” sheet for gamedevs to take, edit, and pass on to actors to start recording and making your own barkpacks!

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This asset pack includes three major pieces:

• Bark bites (.ZIP)
• Bark tracker sheet (.XLSX)
• Bark code (.RPY)
• super cute placeholder doggie sprites to pat! 🐶

CREDITS

• Trenton Butt : Kaizo
• overdosemp3 : Rikk
• PowerPinch : Commander Claw

• script editors : Mathcat + PowerPinch 
  
• doggie artist : Meglizarts
• audio editor : overdosemp3

• Smart Barks : Stella @ MakeVisualNovels
  
• special thanks : lunamakaio

ACCEPTABLE CREDIT EXAMPLE

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Trenton Butt, overdosemp3, PowerPinch from Bark Bites. This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0

This audio pack is licensed under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Under CC BY 4.0, "you must provide the name of the creator and attribution parties, a copyright notice, a license notice, a disclaimer notice, and a link to the material."

Anyone may use this asset as long as properly linked credit is given to the voice actors. You are allowed to use these sound effects freely, even for commercial purpose, so long as you credit the voice actors.

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WHO/WHAT IS IN THE BARK PACKS?

Google Sheets - GEN. BARK SHEET

A Googlesheet link to a blank bark sheet template for you to copy/download and edit as you please to help generate barks for your project. Includes instructions, linked resources, and a sample script.

.xlsx - GEN. BARK SHEET

Same as above, but offline.

Kaizo - 102 .ogg files - Suitable for horror RPGs, fighting games, otomes...

A charismatic but foolhardy friend from childhood, despite the dorky antics that they get into. Full of bad jokes and worse surprises, but their heart of gold always seems to shine through.

Rikk - 94 .ogg files - Suitable for VNs, platformers, dating sims...

A youthful and bombastic teenager living their best high school life, surviving love letters, fighting crime, and saving the school dance prom king all in one night.

Commander Claw - 144 .ogg files - Suitable for RTS, FPS, military radio...

A gruff, seasoned military soldier leader who’s faced too many close calls to count.

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WHAT ARE "BARKS"?

Barks are quick one-liners dictated by NPCs (non player characters) with the intent to provide additional atmospheric effects that compound quality music and/or sound design.

• Rachel P from writeraccess.com

Barks are the lines and onomatopoeias delivered mostly by NPC (Non Playable Characters) or by the player’s character, in given situations (triggers).

For example, while passing a city’s gate, the player will hear a guard shouting: “We don’t like people like you around here…” or “Welcome, stranger!” A bark can also be this enemy provoking you during a fight: “Is that all you got?”, “I was expecting better…” and other variations. A dialog between two NPC you hear arguing is also a series of barks. In any case, the player won’t be able to react directly, unlike interactive dialog.

A bark is one of those elements that makes the player feel like the fictional world truly exists, and is evolving on its own.

• Sarah Beaulieu from sarah-beaulieu.com

EXAMPLES IN OTHER GAMES