Improve game audio by switching to Web Audio API

[ASteinheiser]

Currently the game utilizes react-sound, which just wraps an HTML audio tag as far as I know. I've heard that Web Audio API is much more advanced and could help smooth out the audio issues we are experiencing. If anyone has experience, I would love to hear about it!

[Alaricus]

For this game it might be an overkill. Since all you are doing so far is playing certain sounds as particular events fire off, using is just fine. Unless you have plans to mix sounds or do something equally advanced, switching from tags to Web Audio API would be somewhat akin to switching from using tags to . That is you'd have to do a lot of extra work for no benefit (and would still probably end up using the tags as sources for the audio context.

As to the sound issues we are having, what are they? Maybe I can try to look into them.

[ASteinheiser]

@Alaricus I can see what you're saying. I've heard that the Web Audio API allows for playing multiple sounds at once better than tags. I'm pretty sure HTML audio tags have problems (especially on mobile) with multiple sounds at once (ie. game music + player walking, attacking, and monster death). This is mostly a mobile issue.

[Alaricus]

@ASteinheiser, ah I see. Yea, I have no idea how this works inside native apps, so will defer to someone who might.

[ASteinheiser]

Well, the "Native App" is just a WebView. So you could test on any mobile browser. After running the app locally, you can just go to the IP on your phone.

No worries though either way. I may tinker around with this one day. I'm hoping someone who knows more about Web Audio API on mobile can chime in.