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Master Audio 2022 is the Best Way to Handle Sound in Unity

Posted on by Patrick Fluke

Master Audio 2022: AAA Sound

Game development is never an easy process. Even for a simple game there are thousands of decisions that an indie developer will have to make on their way to guiding their game to completion. Dealing with Audio doesn’t have to be one of them if you pick up Master Audio 2022.

One of the challenges that you’ll face when setting up any games is getting the audio working just right. On the face of it it seems to be a pretty simple concept. Get your audio file into a format compatible with the Unity 3D engine. Then once a condition in your script is satisfied go ahead and call the appropriate function and boom sound. Right? Well… that’s part of the story. But you’ll quickly find that you’re lacking a lot of the features that make Master Audio 2022 the amazing tool that it is. When you want to make your game today, you don’t want to sacrifice quality. Master Audio 2022 is just the tool to help make sure you don’t.

What Does Master Audio 2022 Do?

Master Audio 2022 ensures that your games sound needs are meet to the highest standards of todays games. You’ll have:

  • Easily set up multiplayer, that will have all your players experiencing the same sounds at the same time. You won’t need to struggle with any extra code, just check a quick check box and you’re on your way.
  • You will save on run-time memory. Your sounds and music will load and unload automatically from your resource files and it even includes a very simple multi-language support system.
  • It’s just plain immersive! Master Audio 2022 lets you set up multi-layered music that can fade with another track, and provide you with transitions that you won’t even know happened.
  • You can experiment as you test, and then keep those changes for future use. 
  • It’s easy. No code needed, and just plain fun.

With Master Audio 2022, you’re in complete control of the audio in your game. You won’t worry about conflicting sounds playing. You’ll have an extremely easy time getting the sounds to play at just the right time. Best of all, with all of the reviews you can tell they provide an absolute stellar level of support for their product at Dark Tonic Inc.

Can You Afford Not to Get It?

Some things are worth spending a little bit of time on and you’ll find when you’re putting your game together sound can be one of them. Unless you’re an expert in the various components that Master Audio simplifies for you you’ll find it to be an excellent tool in your belt. Think of the time you’ll save not having to worry about the code for the audio components of your game. You’ll be able to focus on story, focus on graphics, or gameplay. It will open your game up to excel in other areas because you’ll already be set when it comes to audio. All thanks to Master Audio 2022.

This is one of those assets that I think literally deserves a place in every indie developers tool kit. It provides some amazing utility and saves each of us a ton of work. Perhaps you use a different solution? How have you have you handled sounds in your game today?

Lego Game From Unity

Make Some Games with Your Kids

Posted on by Patrick Fluke

You know, in today’s world it’s easy to forget to spend a few minutes with the people around you. Have you ever thought of making games with your kids? The bonus of game development is that, in general, kids love games. You know what else? They tend to love making games too! If you’ve got children, or a younger brother or sister, take the opportunity to share what you can with them!

Lego Game From Unity
Lego Game From Unity

Tonight, my son and I took a spin with the Lego tutorial from Unity. I’ve got to say, it went pretty well all things considered. The tutorial walks you through each step of the way, and you accomplish small goals as you go. Overall, the game making process was turned into a game itself. All while building real skills which he can then turn around and use to make his own games someday! Mind you, the lego game had these condition blocks which may have changed the mechanism for a lot of game building, but that’s okay!

My son was excited, although maybe spent a little too much time actually playing the game. He’d click Restart faster than I could explain to him what the next step was. But he was engaged. Have you tried getting kids engaged these days? It’s a nightmare!

Take Part in their Learning

You’ve really got to be there. You’ve got to sit with them and explain what Unity wants them to do. Otherwise, if your kid or sibling is anything like mine they’ll just play the game. Once I explained it though, once I explained triggers, and variables, and the like, lightbulbs went on, and better yet, they stayed on. My son is excited to keep learning with Unity, and since this is literally a professional game-making studio, his journey certainly doesn’t have to end with the lego game. No, this skill can grow with him, and become his hobby or even his career.

At the very least, he’ll learn some coding. My son was already learning Scratch, so the jump to Unity isn’t insane. I sat with him and we worked through this little book that we bought him that has a ton of these little scratch projects. We found that about two-thirds of the way through he felt limited. He felt as though the program itself was preventing him from making the game he wanted. I thought back then about trying to jump to Unity but we decided to stick it out, and wait for him to finish off Scratch.

Suffice to say he lost interest. Time passed, and I wasn’t sure whether or not he was going to get back into programming. Then Unity has their super sale. While I was checking it out, I stumbled across this beautiful tutorial. The Lego tutorial from Unity has rekindled my son’s love of programming, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

So, I’m going to keep making games with my son, and when my younger son is ready, him too. If you’ve got someone you can share this with, I hope you do. If you don’t and maybe you just want to get into programming, check out all the Unity Tutorials, they’re very well done, and very good at getting you up to speed.

Have any family co-programming stories? Comment below!