Wwise (Wave Works Interactive Sound Engine) is Audiokinetic's software 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]
| Original author(s) | Audiokinetic |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Audiokinetic |
| Stable release | 2023.1[1]
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| Written in | C++ |
| Platform | Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox One Xbox Series X/S |
| Type | |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Description
editThe 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
- Apply the Windows Spatial Audio API, or Dolby Atmos.
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 (Wwise Authoring)
- Multichannel Creator (allows creation of multichannel audio)
- Plug-in architecture for source, effect, and source control plug-ins, part of Wwise Launcher
- SoundFrame API
- Wave Viewer (allows for sampling of WAV audio files)
Supported operating systems
editWwise supports the following platforms:[5]
Adoption by video games
editTitles[6][7] which have used Audiokinetic include:
- Abzû
- Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
- Age of Empires: Castle Siege
- Alien: Isolation
- Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Alone in the Dark: Illumination
- America's Army: Proving Grounds
- Anno 1800
- Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
- Astroneer
- A Plague Tale: Innocence
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- Arena of Valor
- Ashen
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
- Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
- Assassin's Creed Liberation HD
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Assassin's Creed Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla
- Astral Chain
- Battle Prime
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
- Bayonetta 2
- BioShock Infinite
- BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea
- Bleach: Brave Souls
- Borderlands 2(Vita), Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
- Borderlands 3
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
- Child of Light
- Contagion
- Control
- Crackdown 3
- Crimson Dragon
- Cyberpunk 2077
- D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
- Dance Central: Spotlight
- Dawngate
- Daylight
- Dead by Daylight
- Dead Nation - Apocalypse Edition
- Death Stranding
- Destiny
- Destiny 2
- Detroit: Become Human
- Deus Ex: The Fall
- Devil May Cry 5
- DiRT Rally
- Dirt Rally 2.0
- Dirty Bomb
- Divinity: Dragon Commander
- Divinity: Original Sin
- DmC: Devil May Cry
- DOOM
- Dungeon Keeper Mobile
- Dust 514
- Elite: Dangerous
- Entwined
- Event[0]
- F1 2013
- F1 2014
- Fable Anniversary
- Fantasia: Music Evolved
- Fates Forever
- Firefall
- Firewatch[8]
- Fuse
- Gears 5
- Genshin Impact
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Godus
- GRID 2
- GRID: Autosport
- Gris
- Gunslinger Stratos 2
- Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
- H1Z1: Just Survive
- Halo 4
- Halo 5
- Halo: The Master Chief Collection
- Halo Wars: Definitive Edition
- Halo Wars 2
- Happy Wars
- Hello Neighbor 2
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Hitman 2
- Hunt: Showdown
- Infamous First Light
- Infamous Second Son
- Infinite Crisis
- Inside (video game)
- Journey to the Savage Planet
- Karmaflow
- Killer Instinct
- Killer Instinct Season 2
- Killing Floor 2
- League of Legends
- Lichdom: Battlemage
- Life Is Strange
- Life Is Strange 2
- LocoCycle
- Lost Planet 3
- Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
- Mario Strikers: Battle League
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Metro: Last Light
- Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 video game)
- Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
- Monster Hunter World
- Mortal Kombat 11
- Murdered: Soul Suspect
- Nether
- Nier: Automata
- No Man's Sky
- Nosgoth
- No Straight Roads
- Oddworld: New N' Tasty!
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Outlast
- Overwatch
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker
- Payday 2
- Peggle 2
- Plants vs. Zombies 2
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
- Powerstar Golf
- Prey
- Professional Baseball Spirits 2014
- Project Spark
- Quantum Break
- Resident Evil 2 (2019)
- Resident Evil 3 (2020)
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Resident Evil Village
- Remember Me
- Resogun
- Ridge Racer Unbounded
- Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
- Risk of Rain 2
- 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
- Samurai Shodown (2019)
- SCP Unity
- ScreamRide
- Silent Hill 2 (2024 video game)
- Shadow of the Beast (2016)
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- SimCity
- Skull and Bones
- Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
- South Park: The Stick of Truth
- Spider-Man
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- Spyro Reignited Trilogy
- Star Fox Zero
- Star Citizen
- Starfield
- Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
- Stormland
- Strider
- Sunset Overdrive
- Takedown: Red Sabre
- Talos Principle 2
- Tekken 7
- Tengami
- Tetris Effect
- The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
- The Council
- The Elder Scrolls Online
- The Grand Tour Game
- The Legend of Korra
- The Order: 1886
- The Outer Worlds
- The Voice: I Want You
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Thief
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- Tom Clancy's The Division 2
- Total War: Attila
- Total War: Rome II
- Tornado Outbreak
- Trine 2: Complete Story
- Trine 3
- Tropico 6
- Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar
- Valiant Hearts: The Great War
- Wattam
- Wildstar
- Wonderbook: Book of Potions
- Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs
- World of Tanks
- World of Warplanes
- World of Warships
- Wreckfest
- WWE 2K14
- WWE 2K15
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
- Yooka-Laylee
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
- Zoo Tycoon
- Zumba Fitness: World Party
- Zumba Kids
Commercial game engine integration
editWwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.[9]
Theatre
editOne 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
editReferences
edit- ^ "Wwise 2023.1 What's New". Audiokinetic Blog. 2023-07-06.
- ^ "Review: Wwise For Game Audio". ask.audio.
- ^ "Wwise Free for Indies Too!". designingsound.org.
- ^ "Wwise: Smart audio" (PDF). Audiokinetic. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ^ "Audiokinetic | Supported Platforms". Audiokinetic. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ "Powered by WWise". Audiokinetic. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "Hall of Fame | Audiokinetic". www.audiokinetic.com. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ Rodkin, Jake (March 2016). Level Design Workshop: Building Firewatch in Unity. Game Developers Conference.
- ^ "Wwise Integration - Audiokinetic". www.audiokinetic.com.
- ^ "Implementing Audio using Wwise - CRYENGINE 3 Manual - Documentation". docs.cryengine.com.
- ^ dnoticias, Newspaper news about Dom Duardos from Gil Vicente, archived from the original on 2011-10-07, retrieved 2011-01-15
- ^ [Audiokinetic], Audiokinetic interview with Pedro Macedo Camacho (PDF), retrieved 2011-01-15
External links
edit- Alexander Brandon, "Audio Middleware, Part 2: More Contenders in the Emerging Field" Mix Magazine, 04-01-2007. Retrieved on 04-13-2007.