June 1, 2004
Sound future for phone games
Audio in games looks set to get a lot better thanks, in part, to 80s pop pioneer Thomas Dolby, reports the BBC.
"Mr Dolby is the founder of software firm Beatnik which has campaigned relentlessly in mobile phone technology forums for a standard way to create audio files for handsets.
The result now is the Beatnik Audio Engine which looks set to make phone games sound as good as they look.
Usually, a typical game for a mobile phone would have to be written in six languages, conform to more than 83 different operator specifications and work on many different sorts of phones, so they end up with 100 of versions.
The standardised audio system makes it possible to make theme tunes for separate game screens and certain characters in the game can have their own signature tune".
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