Hi Damien, Sound files are probably the most vital assets of your game(s). So we encourage you to make/buy these yourself. Audio Game Maker will come with a small library with common game sounds such as "footsteps", "gunshot", etc. which you can use in your game. However, probably in the first game you make you will find that you need a certain sound that isn't in the library so you need to get it yourself. You can use .wav and .mp3 files only. Simply copy the sounds you want to use in the Sounds-folder in the game directory. Then they are available in Audio Game Maker. Mind that each game that you are developing will have its own Sounds-folder. There is no "shared" sounds folder so if you use "gunshot12.wav" in two seperate games, each game will need a copy of this soundfile in its Sounds-folder.
Greets, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "damien c. sadler - head of x-sight interactive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] a few thoughts about what audio game maker couldcause > do you have to use sounds from the audiogamemaker library or do you have > the > options of using your own sounds? > > thanks. > > regards, > > damien > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "AudioGames.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 6:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] a few thoughts about what audio game maker > couldcause > > >> Hi people! >> >> I've been following this thread with much interest and I'm glad with many >> of >> your posts, both those filled with enthousiasm for our project as well as >> those questioning parts of it. Unfortunately I haven't got the time to >> reply >> all of your posts but I'd like to say a few things: >> >> First of all, Audio Game Maker is an experiment. Fact is that there is a >> bigger demand for audio games than there are audio games in existance. >> Another fact is that many people would like to have a go at making an >> audio >> game themselves but when faced with the challenges of game development, >> especially the the technical side to game development like programming, >> only >> a few brave souls make it. Audio Game Maker is intended as a solution for >> this problem and focus on the more fun side of game development, such as >> quickly turning your idea into a game. It is absolutely true that at some >> point you will have an idea for something in a game and that when you try >> to >> execute that idea in Audio Game Maker, you find that it isn't possible. >> In >> all of my experience with computers, I haven't encountered a single >> application where I couldn't think of something that would improve it. >> It's >> all the same for Audio Game Maker - there simply isn't an application >> which >> allows you to do "everything". Not for game development, not for >> word-processing, not for audio-editing, etc. The only solution to execute >> your specific idea is to start writing your own game in code. Many people >> have already posted about this, so I won't press this issue. But I wanted >> to >> repeat it, since it makes all the difference in the world. >> So where does this leave Audio Game Maker - where you are (fact) limited >> in >> what you can build? I believe, even with the limitations of the >> application, >> that Audio Game Maker can contribute a great deal to the field of audio >> games. First of all, I think that 'limitation stimulates creativity'. >> Many >> ideas for audio games that I read here are based on existing games, with >> only a change of narrative, but which still incorporate the same game >> mechanics. Since Audio Game Maker might not feature the functionality >> that >> allows you to rebuilt exactly the same game functionality of another game >> so >> you are forced to either use a clever work-around or change your idea. >> And >> this might lead to an even better, more original idea which might even be >> more fun. Of course Audio Game Maker should allow you with enough >> functionality to get somewhere. But I think it does :) >> Audio Game Maker is also an experiment in the sense that it is the first >> time that something like this has been tried. So far I haven't heard of a >> similar project/product. I know about RPG Game Engine and Audio Adventure >> Engine and so forth (please see >> http://www.audiogames.net/page.php?pagefile=links under "Audio Game >> Development Tools") but those focused on specific genres of games, so to >> say. Therefore it is still a big question what an 'audio game maker' >> should >> consists of (of which functionality). Time will tell and hopefully we can >> continue improving Audio Game Maker over the next couple of years. For >> this >> we do need your feedback, though!! >> Audio Game Maker is also an experiment in the sense that we don't know >> how >> it will impact the field of audio games. I hope that the community will >> see >> through Audio Game Maker's initial flaws and get their teeth in. I hope >> that >> many people will start co-operating on making games and sharing games. I >> can >> already tell you that Sander and I are already working on "online game >> sharing community"-functionality either for www.audiogames.net or to >> http://www.audiogamemaker.com . Kind of like YouTube, but then for games >> ;) >> . I personally don't think Audio Game Maker will put current audio game >> developers out of business. Instead, there will simply be "professional" >> games as well as "home-made" games, two categories that already exist for >> many years in this field. >> >> What is boils down to is probably this: most folks here are interested in >> games as a form of entertainment, aimed to fill leisure time with an >> interactive activity that is fun and exciting. Audio Game Maker provides >> you >> with a variety of tools to build interactive activities that are fun and >> exciting. You have to add the fun and excitement yourself. Maybe not >> every >> interactive activity can be achieved - no: you cannot use a webcam, >> microphone, joystick, wiimote or mouse as an input device in Audio Game >> Maker, no: you cannot build realtime multiplayer games that work over the >> internet with Audio Game Maker, no: you cannot create real-time online >> hiscore tables for a website, no: the sound library will not contain a >> sound >> sample of everything that can be recorded, etc. - but you can certainly >> create a fun game, like yes: you can create a ghost world where you roam >> free and have to hunt down the 13 ghosts before the bell of the old >> church >> tolls ;) >> >> Greets, >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. 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