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Monthly Archives: June 2020

Audio Accessibility Features for Roguelikes

By Kyzrati | Published: June 30, 2020

Anyone who’s followed my development work over the years will know that I’m big on providing all sorts of quality of life features, optional functionality, configurable settings, and so on. This is also why even from the earliest stages (pre-7DRL!), and ever since, I’ve given the utmost priority to Cogmind’s interface. How players interact with […]

Posted in Dev Series: Sound Effects, GUI | Tagged Accessibility, Ambience, Audio, Cogmind, Sound Design, Sound Effects | Leave a comment

Building Cogmind’s Ambient Soundscape

By Kyzrati | Published: June 15, 2020

I first introduced Cogmind’s ambient sound system back in 2014 during the pre-alpha days, as it was initially developed for Cogmind’s predecessor (X@COM) in the years before that, and sound would continue to play an important role going forward. It wasn’t an especially long post like the ones I tend to write these days, but […]

Posted in Design, Dev Series: Sound Effects | Tagged Ambience, Audio, Cogmind, Sound Design, Sound Effects | Leave a comment

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