Programming my sounds into my game
- 1. Michael Hughes 02/06/2015 Programming My Sounds into my Game In orderto program soundsinto mygame,I firstneededtoaddthe soundfilestomygame maker project.Thisisdone by rightclickingthe “Sounds”Assetfolderonthe lefthandside thenclickingthe “Create Sound”Option,itthenopensa popup window thatallowsyoutoimport.WAV or .MP3 soundfilestogamemaker.Italsoletsyouselectaname for the sound,Control the Volume andEdit the soundif you have the neccassary external software. Otheroptionsthatcan be changedare also the Attributes like UncompressedorCompressed –Streamed. Aswell asthe Bitrate,Sample rate, either8 or 16 bitand the device the soundsare playingfromforinstance monoandstereo. After checkingall of these settings,Ithenwentontobrowse mysoundlibraryfor eachfile. Selecting the sounds To program my soundsintomygame,I wasrequiredto browse eachof the soundassetsI had gathered,todo thisI navigatedtomyREAPER mediafoldertofindthe soundsIhave downloaded.I thenplayedeachof the soundsto ensure theyworkedingamemakerandputthemintothe “Sounds”Folderbyclicking“OK”.
- 2. Michael Hughes 02/06/2015 Programming the sounds into my game To actuallymake the soundswork,I wasrequiredtouse a line of code to make sure theyplayed whenI wantedthemtoo,Ibeganusingthe mainmusic forthe game,I decidedtoplace thisinthe PlayerCreate Eventbecause whenthe playeriscreated,itwill playthe musicforthe game automatically. The line of code is: audio_play_sound(soundID,Priority,loop); “soundID”“Priority”and “loop”can be changedaround. Thisis the methodthatplays the sound,ittellsthe game to playthissoundwhenever the eventistriggered,for instance inmygame,I made the code triggerwhenthe playeriscreated. The “soundID”is the name of the sound,so whateverthe soundwas namedwhenIselected themiswhat wentin here,inthiscase “Game_Theme_level_1” was the soundIDbecause that iswhat itis called. The priorityissetto a number,itisn’t as importantas the other variablesbutitisstill useful,dependingonhow highthe numberis,this soundwouldtake priority overothersoundswith lowernumbers. Thisis either“true”or “false”andthis determineswhetherthe soundwill playagain once it finishes.
- 3. Michael Hughes 02/06/2015 I used this piece of code for every single sound, although I put them in different places so they would work. I repeated this process so I added a total of 4 sounds into my game. Jumping Sound Next level Sound Game over Sound
- 4. Michael Hughes 02/06/2015 Trap Sound