Audiokinetic Wwise

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]

Audiokinetic Wwise
Original author(s)Audiokinetic
Developer(s)Audiokinetic
Stable release
2023.1[1]
Written inC++
PlatformAndroid, iOS, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Vita, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Type
LicenseProprietary EULA
Websitewww.audiokinetic.com

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
  • 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

Wwise supports the following platforms:[5]

Adoption by video games

Recent titles[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)
  • ScreamRide
  • 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

Wwise is intended to be compatible with proprietary and commercial engines.[9]

  • Unreal Engine 3
  • Unreal Engine 4
  • Unity
  • Cocos2d-x
  • CryEngine[10]
  • Orochi 3
  • Gamebryo
  • Fox Engine
  • Autodesk Stingray
  • Open 3D Engine (which superseded Amazon Lumberyard)

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[11][12]

See also

References

  1. "Wwise 2023.1 What's New". Audiokinetic Blog. 2023-07-06.
  2. "Review: Wwise For Game Audio". ask.audio.
  3. "Wwise Free for Indies Too!". designingsound.org.
  4. "Wwise: Smart audio" (PDF). Audiokinetic. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. "Audiokinetic | Supported Platforms". Audiokinetic. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
  6. "Customers". Audiokinetic. Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  7. "Hall of Fame | Audiokinetic". www.audiokinetic.com. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  8. Rodkin, Jake (March 2016). Level Design Workshop: Building Firewatch in Unity. Game Developers Conference.
  9. "Wwise Integration - Audiokinetic". www.audiokinetic.com.
  10. "Implementing Audio using Wwise - CRYENGINE 3 Manual - Documentation". docs.cryengine.com.
  11. dnoticias, Newspaper news about Dom Duardos from Gil Vicente, archived from the original on 2011-10-07, retrieved 2011-01-15
  12. [Audiokinetic], Audiokinetic interview with Pedro Macedo Camacho (PDF), retrieved 2011-01-15
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