Music

[JeffCrook]

Ok, here's a nasty one. Will the games have the capability of streaming background or mood music?

[ChristopherA]

Originally posted by JeffCrook:
Ok, here's a nasty one. Will the games have the capability of streaming background or mood music?

Probably not streaming, but we have considered ambient sound loops as 'background' to a room. Again, anything that can be done with a web page can be done with a game, so theoretically you could have general MIDI or other audio content in the background.

The harder problem is control -- right now the ActiveX (for IE) and Java applet (for Netscape and non-PC platforms) modify the web page on which they reside by using JavaScript. Anything that can be triggered or changed by JavaScript can be manipulated by the game.

However, timing can be a problem, as if you have too many changes to the web page that the game resides in then it may not keep up. Also, Netscape is notorious for its bugs in dynamic HTML and JavaScript, so what may work for IE may not work elsewhere.

-- Christopher Allen