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Syngen: A library for audio game development
- codezero 6y agoThis is neat, when I was in college I was obsessed with making audio only games with Allegro as a game library and basically just used trigonometry for spatial audio. One of my games was a techno song where each part of the track was an NPC and you had to avoid one of the beats while chasing down the others using WSAD with no visible references. I always wanted to translate that into the real world with a mobile device + gps and an open field to actually chase unseen sounds :)
- c3534l 6y agoYou could certainly do it inside a single room with a camera. I'm sure there are plenty of libraries tracking a person's movement within a single area, since its used it VR and AR.
- codezero 6y agoOh for sure. Though I’ll say if you had a ominous beating sound chasing you in a small room you’re going to leap into a wall not to get hit :)
- JKCalhoun 6y agoWere there any audio samples that I missed? I want to hear what it sounds like (short of pulling sources, building, pulling down examples ....).
- smcnally 6y agoSyngen audio is synthesized via Web Audio API rather than sample-based. You can play the author's example projects on itch.io and view their videos on YT to hear in-game audio examples. https://shiftbacktick.itch.io/ https://shiftbacktick.itch.io/ https://youtu.be/WxExTdjoIMo https://youtu.be/WxExTdjoIMo
- germinalphrase 6y agoCan anyone share a favorite example of an audio game?
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- smoe 6y agoThere are a number of ear training or general practice apps for musicians that have been gamified E.g. https://youtu.be/2QQ-VDlPpA4 https://youtu.be/2QQ-VDlPpA4 Think would be cool to use such a library to make an audio based puzzle game where you need to develop your hearing skills as you proceed and don’t expose any of the music theory behind it to the player.
- rasz 6y agoThe most famous example I heard about was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Sound:_Kaze_no_Regret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Sound:_Kaze_no_Regret
- MattRix 6y agoElectroplankton is my all time favourite. Then there’s also games like FRACT OSC, Sound Shapes, and Everyday Shooter.
- georgeoliver 6y agoThis is neat, but I really enjoyed reading the author's post-mortem on their (very cool sounding) audio game soundStrider, https://shiftbacktick.io/devlog/2020/07/25/soundstrider-post-mortem.html https://shiftbacktick.io/devlog/2020/07/25/soundstrider-post...