Crowd recordings by tim.kahn (real group performances), licensed CC BY 4.0.
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
cheer.mp3: cheer 01.wav, https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/337000/
laughter.mp3: laughter 01.wav, https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/337001/
sigh.mp3: awww 01.wav (group disappointment), https://freesound.org/people/tim.kahn/sounds/336998/
Downloaded Freesound HQ MP3 transcodes on 2026-10-16. Original recordings unedited;
in-game playback changes gain, pan, rate slightly, fades and adds light arena reverberation.

Footstep and metal contact recordings: Kenney, Impact Sounds (1.0), CC0.
https://kenney.nl/assets/impact-sounds
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Selected carpet, grass, concrete and light metal recordings bundled unedited.
Playback layers textures, varies pitch/gain, and filters high frequencies.

crowd-murmur.mp3: Busy Room Ambience / People talking in background #2,
by Breviceps, CC0. https://freesound.org/people/Breviceps/sounds/465699/
city-night.mp3: Seamless City Loop by qubodup, listed CC0,
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/223093/
Based on a CC0 city recording by jmbphilmes.
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
HQ MP3 previews downloaded 2026-10-18. Local recordings are unedited.
Runtime: 1.5-second overlap crossfade, distant high/low-pass filtering,
slow crowd-level variation, and ducking beneath shots and hazard cues.
Crowd ambience follows Crowd volume; traffic follows Sound Effects volume.

Music: Welcome, Contestant, original menu theme created for The Last Hole.
An eight-bar music-box waltz, looping across menus after a trusted interaction.
Silent during gameplay and while hidden; separate Menu Music toggle and volume controls.
Original melody and synthesized instruments; no third-party music samples.

scream.mp3: Male Death Scream 1.mp3 by areischen, CC0.
https://freesound.org/people/areischen/sounds/432057/
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
HQ MP3 preview downloaded 2026-10-17; recording unedited, playback fades and varies pitch slightly.

scream-woman.mp3: Female Scream by DigestContent, CC0.
https://freesound.org/people/DigestContent/sounds/449702/
scream-older-woman.mp3: Female scream 02 by missozzy, CC0.
https://freesound.org/people/missozzy/sounds/169811/
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
HQ MP3 previews downloaded 2026-10-17; separate recordings for Maya and Evelyn. Playback fades and varies pitch slightly.

flyovers/hole1-broadcast.wav: Original Hole 1 dialogue for The Last Hole,
performed by fictional commentators Ellis Ward and Jack Mercer using locally
rendered Kokoro-82M v1.0 AI voices bm_george and am_michael. Not recordings or
imitations of real sports announcers. Generated 2026-10-21; 24 kHz mono PCM.
Kokoro model by hexgrad, Apache 2.0: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
ONNX export/inference by thewh1teagle, MIT: https://github.com/thewh1teagle/kokoro-onnx
Model-files-v1.1 export; kokoro-onnx 0.4.9. Model weights and generation tools
are development-only and are not distributed to players. Original script:
docs/hole1-broadcast-script.json. Reproduction: scripts/render-hole1-broadcast.py.
Postproduction: separate voice delivery speeds, trimmed exterior silence,
75 Hz high-pass, matched RMS, soft peak limiting and short click-free fades.
Bundled performance uses no runtime voice generation or external audio service.

flyovers/hole2-broadcast.wav and hole3-broadcast.wav: original two-presenter
performances rendered 2026-10-21 using the same licensed Kokoro model, voices
and postproduction described above. Scripts: docs/hole2-broadcast-script.json
and docs/hole3-broadcast-script.json. Generate with render-hole1-broadcast.py
2 or 3. All model/runtime files remain development-only.