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Audiokinetic Wwise

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Original author(s)
  
Audiokinetic

Development status
  
Active

Stable release
  
2016.1

Written in
  
C++

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

Type
  
Game middleware Game development tool Digital audio workstation

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

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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:

  • 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 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
  • 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.

  • Unreal Engine 3
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Unity
  • Cocos2d-x
  • CryEngine
  • 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
  • Audio Audio Ease
  • Auro 3d Auro Technologies
  • CrankCase CrankCase Audio
  • Epic Games
  • GameBase
  • iZotope
  • McDSP [1]
  • 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

    • References

    Audiokinetic Wwise Wikipedia
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