add some basic sound FX

ScriptaGames / zorbio

A 3D multiplayer WebGL game

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add some basic sound FX #24

Closed Jared-Sprague closed 8 years ago

mwcz commented 8 years ago

For alpha I'm thinking just adding one sound effect would be good. would make it really easy to add more before beta

mwcz commented 8 years ago

I've been looking at web audio libraries, trying to find a good one.

howler.js looks great for replaying audio files, but can't procedurally generate music or tones
Tonejs looks great for generating tones. it would allow procedural music in the future. here are some examples that have cool ambient music. not perfect, but moderately close to the music I'm imagining for Zorbio!
- hypercube made with tonejs
- audio game of life
- YUME beautiful procedural music and visualization. totally worth a look!!!

mwcz commented 8 years ago

To keep it simple for now I'm just going to use howler.js to play audio files from freesound.org :D

Jared-Sprague commented 8 years ago

Sounds good!

mwcz commented 8 years ago

Done! I added a set of 7 soft chime sounds. A random one is played each time you capture a food. I think it's a good start! It gets a little bit noisy when you're large and capturing a lot of food, but NOT nearly as bad as I expected!

The Howlerjs library has a really cool feature that allows you to set the 3d position of the sound, and it decreases the volume based on that distance. I created Beta issue #146 to handle that.

mwcz commented 8 years ago

Hmm, right now I'm not hearing any sound effects on my Android phone. I tried Firefox and Chrome. My best guess is that wav files can't be played on Android. I can convert the files to other formats and test.

mwcz commented 8 years ago

No sound on Cas's iPad either. Must investigate.

mwcz commented 8 years ago

My mistake! I think it's because I didn't copy client/sfx into the build via build.sh. Sound doesn't work in production at all, likely because of that.