Boston HTML5 Game Development

HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup

September 19, 2012 · 7:00 PM
Bocoup Loft (new location)

This month we have two speakers -- Kirk Israel and Tristan Jehan.

Kirk Israel will talk about his new HTML5 audio wrapper library, lowLag:

Historically, game audio has been a tricky beast, and HTML5 is no exception. While multiple sound libraries exist, there isn't a single technology that provides low latency sound clip playback across the full range of browsers. I'll discuss what I found in my search and the library I finally developed: lowLag.js, a light weight wrapper that encapsulates and automagically selects the best of several approaches (Webkit Audio, the HTML5 audio tag, and SoundManager2's Flash plugin (with HTML5 fallback)) for fast and convenient sound effects in HTML5 games.

Our second speaker is Tristan Jehan, one of the founders of The Echo Nest. He'll be discussing their audio API, which focuses on analyzing music and has really interesting applications for music games:

The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that provides a deep and granular level of musical information at scale, on both content and context. By listening to every song (tempo, rhythm, timbre, harmony), and reading every piece of music text online (blog posts, news, reviews), the "musical brain" constantly learns to reverse engineer music. Its knowledge on 35 million unique songs and 2 million artists was generated automatically and dynamically over the past 6 years. Through many examples and live demos, we demonstrate the power of big-data driven software in the context of personalized listening experiences and music creation, including music games, and remixing.

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Ryan

Lots to learn, and good demos.

0 · September 26, 2012
kirk israel

I did a bit of a summary of the event (a long with a small pile of the awesome Echo Nest links as well as the little proof of concept drum machine I made) on my dev blog, http://kirkdev.blogspot.com/

0 · September 20, 2012
- Darius Kazemi
  
  Thanks Kirk!
  
  0 · September 20, 2012
- Francois Laberge
  
  Yeah, thanks Kirk! Wish I could have been there to see you talk. I'm knee deep in audio experimenting right now and I would have loved to chat some.
  
  0 · September 20, 2012
Maximilian Alexander Dunn Thayer

Great variety of talks, solid demos, and awesome people.

0 · September 20, 2012
kirk israel

Good meeting! The Echo Nest presentation was a mind-blower. And that guy talking about lowLag was clever and devilishly handsome as well.

0 · September 20, 2012
Eddie Rivas

I have to agree with Tim, the presentations were really great and the Brainworth idea was a pretty cool concept.

0 · September 19, 2012
Tim McKenna

Friendly atmOsphere. Nice mix of presentations.

0 · September 19, 2012
Ashish

Really loved the presentations and the ideas. Wish to see a little basics covered in every presentation, like 15 mins for HTML5 game development 101s so beginners like me can get more involved and understand the context.

0 · September 19, 2012
A former member

Excellent!

0 · September 19, 2012