Programming 2D Games

Sound Example 1

One spaceship bounces off the d\edges of the window. A different sound effect is played for each edge

• Demonstrates using the XACT audio engine to play game sounds.

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Limit Instances

Two spaceships are displayed, ship A and ship B. Pressing the 'A' key plays a sound effect that is limited to one instance by setting the Limit Instances Cue property to 1 in the XACT GUI tool. Pressing the 'B' key plays a sound effect that has unlimited instances.

• Demonstrates using the XACT GUI tool to control the playback of sound effects.

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Supplement

Chapter 7 Supplement, audio compression using XACT and pausing sounds by category.

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