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Building Games with Flutter

You're reading from  Building Games with Flutter

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816984
Pages 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Paul Teale Paul Teale
Profile icon Paul Teale

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Game Basics
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flutter Games 3. Chapter 2: Working with the Flame Engine 4. Chapter 3: Building a Game Design 5. Part 2: Graphics and Sound
6. Chapter 4: Drawing and Animating Graphics 7. Chapter 5: Moving the Graphics with Input 8. Chapter 6: Playing Sound Effects and Music 9. Chapter 7: Designing Your Own Levels 10. Chapter 8: Scaling the Game for Web and Desktop 11. Part 3: Advanced Games Programming
12. Chapter 9: Implementing Advanced Graphics Effects 13. Chapter 10: Making Intelligent Enemies with AI 14. Chapter 11: Finishing the Game 15. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Answers

Controlling the volume

Fixing the volume of the music and sound effects is very easy and only requires a few small changes. Let's take a look:

  1. Open the main.dart file. In the onLoad function, where we added the call to play the background music, change this line to pass the volume parameter:
    await FlameAudio.bgm.play('music/music.mp3',
      volume: 0.1);

Here we set the music volume to 0.1, keeping it low so we can hear the sound effects better. The volume parameter can be any value between 0.0 and 1.0 (0.0 mutes the sound of the music or sound effect completely, whereas 1.0 plays the sound at full volume).

  1. Open the george.dart file and let's update the calls to play each sound effect to use the volume parameter. In the onCollision function, update the enemy dying sound effect like this:
    FlameAudio.play('sounds/enemy_dies.wav', volume: 1.0);
  2. In the update function, change the two calls to play the running sound effect, and...
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