game.Sound

Everything WICK is heard as. Mounted once, on mount_audio.

The shaft is a granite tube on a storm night, and the mix is built the way you would hear one: the weather holds the floor, the sea gets louder as it climbs toward you, the score comes in a layer at a time as the metres do, the cat's own sounds are close and dry, and the Keeper is the only thing allowed to push the rest of it down.

What it owns

Eight sources, created under the mount on first awake and reused across a hot reload:

The three score layers all start on the first frame at volume zero, so they stay in step with each other for the whole session and a layer arriving is a fader move rather than a new clip starting out of phase.

What it listens to

Every event in game.Core's table:

kick land grip slip fall hazard splash milestone surge lamp say phase — plus lightning and beam, which the staging slice may raise for its own beats and which the game does not depend on: the storm makes its own thunder on a timer, and lighting the lamp brings its own beam.

hazard is played by kind — spike, wire, plaster, chain each have their own sound.

It writes nothing. It never touches Core.state.

Where the sound comes from

• audio.synth — the bank, computed on the CPU out of raw f32 PCM. No service, no network: it cannot go quiet because a generation failed. Beds are stored as PCM and written so the last sample runs into the first.
• audio.voice — the Keeper, generated once and cached as a clip per line. A line whose audio is missing is still said: the caption is emitted by Core.say whatever happens here.

The mix

Four channels — ambient, music, sfx, voice — and the fields below set their levels. The Keeper ducks ambient and music while he speaks and gives them back a beat after he stops.