Many things capture your eye, but only a few capture your heart. Pursue those.
— Michael Nolan
It’s time to get out of the silent era, get modern, and add a sound track!
If you have any questions or requests what I should discuss, please tell me in the comments.
Concepts discussed: Adding sounds, recording sound
As the next Greenfoot release nears, and I mentioned sound support in my last post, there’s now a short demo video available. It shows smooth animation, and sound support in Greenfoot (in an “Asteroids” scenario).
Watch it here.
And come the next Greenfoot release, do it yourself!
And the best thing about it (or at least one of the best): this whole program is written with only about 280 lines of code (in Java)! Not too bad, I reckon.
Greenfoot, the microworld framework we’re working on at Kent, is getting closer and closer to providing a full game programming platform.
Initially, it was designed for simulations. Then it got key control. Now it gets sound.
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