Music and sounds effects

Retro Carnage has background music and sound effects stored in a directory called sounds. As the names suggest music files are stored in the music sub directory, sound effects in the fx sub directory. During development sound files - just like all other assets - are located in the retro-carnage-assets repository.

Audio format

Retro Carnage uses a single, fixed audio configuration for all music and sounds. These settings are hard coded in the source code - more specificly in the code of the stereo struct. These settings define that all music and files are expected to be encoded in:

• MP3 format
• with stereo channels
• in 32000 Hz.

Converting audio files to meet these settings

Converting audio files to meet the required encoding is simple. You can use e.g. the free and open source audio editor Audacity for that purpose. All you need to do is open your audio file in Audacity, edit select the export option from the menu and set the export settings as shown here.

References to sound effects

Sound effects and background music are managed in sounds.go. This file contains references to the sound files so that they can be used via constants in the source code. The file references are relative to their respective folder.