basic sounds for arcade shooter

[7yl4r]

sounds needed:

player:

• shield fully charged (notification)
• shield critical warning sound (looped)
• shield damaged from collision with CA

base weapon:

• energy shot fired
• energy shot collided with CA, destroys CA in radius (explosion-like?)
• out of ammo sound

music:

• ambient space-shooter track on loop (or hey, procedurally generate it using CA like wolframTones, why not?)

UI

• button click or keypress event

[7yl4r]

uh oh, another link with more information on CA-music. I'm trying really hard not to get distracted and end up writing a procedural music library, but it's looking more and more tempting.

[7yl4r]

oop, one more: CAMUS

[7yl4r]

JFugue looks like it could make procedural, CA-generated music that much easier...

[7yl4r]

I couldn't resist... Now exploring generative music using CA in this repo.

[7yl4r]

I'm finding a really surprisingly large body of existing work in the area of generative and adaptive music for games. FMOD even seems to have a slew of commercial-level tools for this kind of thing free of cost (for indie devs). Here's a nice demo of how FMOD Studio works.

[BrianErikson]

We might want to get some basic sounds and a simple background track in there for the first public alpha -- people will definitely notice the lack of sound effects, and that might detract from other useful critiquing

[7yl4r]

libgdx + fmod links for later reference

• http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=36081.0
• http://astrangergravity.com/binding-to-fmod/

[BrianErikson]

This issue is basically resolved for now -- we are triggering sounds based on an event system. The background music generation should probably be a different issue