Add exported properties for sound effects where contestants may wish to add them in Champ

[wjt]

@felixwalberg you mentioned a number of places that you imagined a competitor might add sound effects. If these places do not already have a good way to drop in a sound effect, can you list some such places here, and we can collaborate on making it easy to add SFX?

[felixwalberg]

@felixwalberg you mentioned a number of places that you imagined a competitor might add sound effects. If these places do not already have a good way to drop in a sound effect, can you list some such places here, and we can collaborate on making it easy to add SFX?

One area where I documented this in the GDD is the puzzle object interaction audio for the sequence puzzle. My question: The scene used for the rocks (puzzle objects) is custom to the Champ quest, but if I make changes to the audio attribute of the scene, it does not automatically swap for each of the instances in the sequence puzzle scene. My proposed workaround was to have learners replace the audio with a new file using the same filename as the existing one (which I copied and made Champ SQ specific) so that each of the 30 instances would point to the same updated file path.

I can also add a sound effect when the rocks submerge in the sequence puzzle level (this brings up your concerns with the logic of the level and how submerging/resetting progress should work), but this would give another option for customizing an audio file. That should be easily added to the champ_long_rock.gd script and exported to the inspector.

Another place where sounds could be added is to the projectile hit sound stream for the projectiles in the combat level. This attribute is already easily exported to the inspector and would only need to be changed for the two projectile throwing npcs.

Ben from BRIC also mentioned adding an export variable for looping background music for each minigame, which seems like it would be simple to implement.

[felixwalberg]

One area where I documented this in the GDD is the puzzle object interaction audio for the sequence puzzle. My question: The scene used for the rocks (puzzle objects) is custom to the Champ quest, but if I make changes to the audio attribute of the scene, it does not automatically swap for each of the instances in the sequence puzzle scene. My proposed workaround was to have learners replace the audio with a new file using the same filename as the existing one (which I copied and made Champ SQ specific) so that each of the 30 instances would point to the same updated file path.

I can also add a sound effect when the rocks submerge in the sequence puzzle level (this brings up your concerns with the logic of the level and how submerging/resetting progress should work), but this would give another option for customizing an audio file. That should be easily added to the champ_long_rock.gd script and exported to the inspector.

Another place where sounds could be added is to the projectile hit sound stream for the projectiles in the combat level. This attribute is already easily exported to the inspector and would only need to be changed for the two projectile throwing npcs.

Ben from BRIC also mentioned adding an export variable for looping background music for each minigame, which seems like it would be simple to implement.

#1851 addresses these areas for learners to add sound. Each scene has an AudioStreamPlayer node with background music, the submerging rocks have a sound effect with an exported variable to change it, the projectile sound already shows up in the inspector, and the sequence puzzle objects all have a sound editable via the inspector.