New Game: Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze
I hope you have all tried my new game: Mr. Hopwit and the Mysterious Maze. Technically the big new thing is the sound engine. It requires Java 1.3.1+ so it is likely that you are not hearing anything since Microsoft’s Java 1.1 still is the most common applet plugin. But if you are, then you are hearing an emulated 4 channel FM synthesizer with two oscillators pr. channel and a lowpass filter with resonance. The oscillators are really just precalculated wavetables which means that I can throw in any waveform in the synthesizer.
I was able to figure out FM synthesis on my own but the low pass filtering is from an astoundishing good resource: www.musicdsp.org which I found at javagaming.org’s discussion forums. It is a true treasure box of synthesizer techniques and with Java sound it was an absolute joy to add sound and music to the game.
If you wish to upgrade from MS Java 1.1, you can find Sun’s latest virtual machine at www.java.com.
-- posted at 2004-04-25 09:19:38
Nice game. Thnx.
-- www.advplace.com at 2004-07-05 18:14:51
Of course I could also point your attention to its sequel: Mr. Hopwit hits the Roof. :-D
-- Christian at 2004-07-30 12:46:04
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