Audiokinetic Wwise

Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine), is Audiokinetic's software solution for interactive media and video games, available for free to non-commercial users^[2][3] and under license for commercial video game developers. It features an audio authoring tool and a cross-platform sound engine.^[4]

Description

The Wwise authoring application uses a graphical interface to centralize all aspects of audio creation. The functionality in this interface allows sound designers to:

• Import audio files for use in video games
• Apply audio plug-in effects
• Mix in real-time
• Define game states
• Simulate audio environments
• Manage sound integration

Wwise allows for on-the-fly audio authoring directly in game. Over a local network, users can create, audition, and tweak sound effects and subtle sound behaviors while the game is being played on another host.

Wwise also includes the following components:

• Cross-platform sound engine
• Real-time game simulator
• Plug-in architecture for source, effect, and source control plug-ins
• SoundFrame API

Supported operating systems

Wwise supports the following platforms:^[5]

• Android
• iOS
• Linux
• Mac
• Nintendo 3DS
• PlayStation 3
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation Vita
• Wii
• Wii U
• Microsoft Windows
• Windows Phone 8
• Xbox 360
• Xbox One

Adoption by video games

Recent titles^[6] which have used Audiokinetic include:

• Age of Empires: Castle Siege
• Alien: Isolation
• Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Alone in the Dark: Illumination
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
• Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
• Assassin's Creed: Rogue
• Assassin's Creed Unity
• Batman: Arkham Knight
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
• Bayonetta 2
• BioShock Infinite
• BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
• Bleach Brave Souls (ブレソル）
• Borderlands 2(Vita), Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
• Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!
• Child of Light
• Contagion
• Crimson Dragon
• D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
• Dance Central: Spotlight
• Dawngate
• Daylight
• Dead Nation - Apocalypse Edition
• Destiny
• Deus Ex: The Fall
• DiRT Rally
• Dirty Bomb
• Divinity: Dragon Commander
• Divinity: Original Sin
• DmC: Devil May Cry
• DOOM
• Dungeon Keeper
• Dust 514
• Elite: Dangerous
• Entwined
• F1 2013
• F1 2014
• Fable Anniversary
• Fantasia: Music Evolved
• Fates Forever
• Firefall
• Firewatch^[7]
• Fuse
• Godus
• GRID 2
• GRID: Autosport
• Gunslinger Stratos 2
• Happy Wars
• H1Z1: Just Survive
• Halo: The Master Chief Collection
• Infamous First Light
• Infamous Second Son
• Infinite Crisis
• Karmaflow
• Killer Instinct
• Killer Instinct Season 2
• Killing Floor 2
• League of Legends
• Lichdom: Battlemage
• Life Is Strange
• LocoCycle
• Lost Planet 3
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
• Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
• Metro: Last Light
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Murdered: Soul Suspect
• Nether
• No Man's Sky
• Nosgoth
• Oddworld: New N' Tasty!
• Outlast
• Overwatch
• Payday 2
• Peggle 2
• Plants vs Zombies 2
• Powerstar Golf
• Professional Baseball Spirits 2014
• Project Spark
• Quantum Break
• Remember Me
• Resogun
• Ridge Racer Unbounded
• Rocket League
• Rocksmith 2014
• Saints Row: The Third
• Saint's Row IV
• Saint's Row IV: Re-Elected
• Saint's Row: Gat Out Of Hell
• ScreamRide
• Shadow of the Beast (2016)
• SimCity
• Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
• South Park: The Stick of Truth
• Star Fox Zero
• Star citizen
• Strider
• Sunset Overdrive
• Takedown: Red Sabre
• Tekken7
• Tengami
• The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
• The Elder Scrolls Online
• The Legend of Korra
• The Order: 1886
• The Voice: I Want You
• The Witcher 3
• Thief
• Titanfall
• Total War: Attila
• Total War: Rome II
• Tornado Outbreak
• Trine 2: Complete Story
• Trine 3
• Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War
• Wildstar
• Wonderbook: Book of Potions
• Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs
• World of Tanks
• World of Warplanes
• World of Warships
• WWE 2K14
• WWE 2K15
• Zoo Tycoon
• Zumba Fitness: World Party
• Zumba Kids

Commercial Game Engine Integration

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.^[8]

• Unreal Engine 3
• Unreal Engine 4
• Unity
• Cocos2d-x
• CryEngine^[9]
• Orochi 3
• Gamebryo
• Fox Engine
• Autodesk Stingray

Technology Partners

Audiokinetic partners with other audio developers to bring their audio technology to the gaming industry. Partnership add-ons for Wwise include:

• Astound Astound Sound^[10]
• Audio Audio Ease
• Auro 3d Auro Technologies
• CrankCase CrankCase Audio
• Epic Games
• GameBase
• iZotope
• McDSP
• Perforce Software
• Silicon Studio
• Steinberg
• AMD TrueAudio – there is an audio plug-in for Wwise which offloads computation to the TrueAudio DSP

Theatre

One play has used Wwise and its Interactive Music capabilities for live performance:

• Dom Duardos by Gil Vicente, co-produced by Companhia Contigo Teatro and Grupo de Mímica e Teatro Oficina Versus, with music by Pedro Macedo Camacho^[11][12]

See also

• Sound design
• Video game development

References

1. ↑ http://blog.audiokinetic.com/wwise-2016.1-is-out/
2. ↑ https://ask.audio/articles/review-wwise-for-game-audio
3. ↑ http://designingsound.org/2014/03/wwise-free-for-indies-too/
4. ↑ "Wwise: Smart audio" (PDF). Audiokinetic. Retrieved 9 July 2015. 
5. ↑ "Audiokinetic | Downloads". Audiokinetic. Retrieved 30 June 2014. 
6. ↑ "Customers". Audiokinetic. Retrieved 9 July 2015. 
7. ↑ Rodkin, Jake (March 2016). Level Design Workshop: Building Firewatch in Unity. Game Developers Conference. 
8. ↑ https://www.audiokinetic.com/products/wwise-integration/
9. ↑ http://docs.cryengine.com/display/SDKDOC2/Implementing+Audio+using+Wwise
10. ↑ http://www.genaudioinc.com/
11. ↑ dnoticias, Newspaper news about Dom Duardos from Gil Vicente, retrieved 2011-01-15 
12. ↑ [Audiokinetic], Audiokinetic interview with Pedro Macedo Camacho (PDF), retrieved 2011-01-15 

External links

• www.audiokinetic.com
• Alexander Brandon, "Audio Middleware, Part 2: More Contenders in the Emerging Field" Mix Magazine, 04-01-2007. Retrieved on 04-13-2007.