These are a little dated, but still an interesting read. As noted at the top of the page, we will soon be lauching our own 3d sound game pages so stay tuned...

A



amen

ares rising





B

black & white

blade

blood2





D



daikatana

deliverence

descent:freespace



G

Gabriel Knight 3 

H



heretic2

hexen2

homeworld

hotstile waters





I



I-war


K



Kingpin

M



max payne

messiah

metroCop

monolith

montezumas revenge

motorhead





P

paxwars

powerslide

privatewars





R



rainbow Six





S



seed

slavezero

soldier of furtune

spearhead

starsiege



T

thrust twist turn

tonic trouble

tzar

Terminus

U

Unreal: Tournament

Kingpin: Life of Crime Will Support 3Dsound
- January 6 99 6:00pm EST - Mikael 

I've just spoken with our development group about your question. And
this was there reply:
        "without 3D sound, Kingpin couldn't work. All action, speech and dress
within the game is raw."They're in the process of working out the strengths and weakness' of one vs.
the other.

Erin

Unreal: Tournament will support 3Dsound
- January 6 99 6:00pm EST - Mikael

Unreal Tournament and Unreal 2 will use the same audio engine, so yes they will support
A3D/EAX. Right now we're working with both Aureal and Creative to add support for A3D2 and EAX2..

-Carlo

Terminus will support DS3D, EAX and A3D
- December 30 2 98 6:00pm EST - Mikael

Terminus supports 3D sound through multiple ways:

* DS3D
* A3D
* EAX (reverb)
* Software - we have a great software 3D sound system for those people
without 3D sound hardware. Included are features such as doppler shifting
so you can hear ships/weapons/missiles scream by around you!.

| Karthik Bala, Director of Development/CEO |
| Vicarious Visions, Inc.  WWW.VVISIONS.COM |

Blood2: The Chosen will support A3D, DS3D and EAX
- December 18 6 98 6:00pm EST - Mikael

Things are going well.  We've actually decided to use Miles to support EAX/A3D/DS3D.  We're almost done with the work we need to do (just working out a few minor issues with RAD on a couple of things).  Hopefully by early January we'll have something to release.

John Jack

Gabriel Knight 3 may support 3D sound
- November 30  98 6:00pm EST - Mikael

According to the producer of GK3:
Currently we support Direct 3D sound and the cards it supports. We will be
making some changes so this may not be true for all machines. Currently we
are thinking we will use Direct 3D sound only if the machine has 3D Sound
hardware support, otherwise we will fake the 3D sound in our code.

GK3 is scheduled to release in Spring '99- that is why do not have a
definite answer for this title. .

Kathy
PR Specialist
Sierra Studios

Homeworld will support 3D sound
- November 30 98 6:00pm EST - Mikael

Homeworld: We are hoping to support all the 3D sound API's out of the box
with Homeworld.
..
Genevieve Ostergard
Sr. PR Manager
Sierra Studios

Tzar: The Burden Of The Crown Will Support DirectSound 3D and EAX
- October 22.98 6:00pm EST - Frank 

When released Tzar: The Burden Of The Crown will support DirectSound 3D
and Creative EAX. The sound engine (including the EAX support) is ready
and the sound is just amazing. There is no Real Time Strategy game with
so powerful sound engine released yet. ;-)
Check some screenshots and music tunes at http://www.tzar.net
and at http://gods.heavengames.com

Best,
Julian Manolov
Lead Programmer at
Haemimont OOD (http://www.haemimont.com)

Metro Cop Will Not Support Any 3Dsound API
- September 3.98 12:28pm EST - Frank 

Havn't seen these in a while, eh? If you still dont know what these so called soundwaves are, we suggest you go to the Soundwaves section and do some slight reading. We sent our patented (We wish) soundwave to the developers at VX Software. We wanted to know if Metro Police would support any sort of 3Dsound API. We got a response and here was what they had said:

Our game Metropolice will not use any 3D API simply because
of our tight schedule and there will be no patch in the future, but
we will develop other games based on our 3D engine wich then
will include 3D sound. - Patrick

Pics: Pic1 - Pic2 - Pic3 - Pic4 - Pic5 - Pic6 - Pic7 - Pic 8
More Screen Shots and info can be seen HERE

Slave Zero to support A3d, Creative EAX and DS3D
- August 5,98 7:40 pm EST - Mark 

I was checking out Slave Zero, Accolade's forray into the big bot market and could not find any references to sound so I sent them a question about planned support. We got the following prompt response back from them.

Yes, we are planning to support most of the 3D sound cards and API's. Currently we support Creative Labs EAX and A3D. We also support DS3D (Direct Sound 3D). We will continue to support these systems and more in Slave Zero. Hope that helps!

Erica Krishnamurthy

Amen ...Planned To Support DirectSound3D
- August 2,98 11:11am EST - Frank   

You want a soundwave you say, well here is one hot soundwave. Although short, the folks at cavedog which are developing Amen got back to our email and gave a very short but helpful response. Here's what they said

Yes, we plan to support DirectSound3D.
- John Cutter

Reference:
Pics: Pic1 Pic2 Pic3
Amen Page

Rainbow Six Will Support DirectSound3D
- July 13,98 3:06am EST - Frank   

Mur Lafferty from Redstorm picked up our Soundwave on which 3dsound API they will support for Rainbow Six. Rainbow6 is sort of like SpecOps, and looks awesome and very detailed.Mur gave us a simple reply saying: Rainbow Six will support DirectSound3d. Check their site out for more info.

Motorhead Might Support A3D
- July 11,98 5:26am EST - Frank  

We fired a soundwave to the guys at Digital Illusions on behalf of Motorheads 3Dsound implementation. And Fredrik gave us a response. First off let me just say this game looks stunning! Along with this post I have provided some pic links that may help you see what I'm talking about. Pic1     Pic2     Pic3     Pic4     Pic5     Pic6   

We are currenlty looking into the possability to add
support for Aureal3D.  If it is succesfull in implementing this in
Motorhead we will release a patch. Fredrik - DICE 

Max Payne Will Be Supporting 3Dsound
- July 10,98 5:26am EST - Frank  

I'd like to thank our new member Joel Jordan to 3DsoundSurge. He was cool enough to transfer some of the work he did at his previous sound site (soundstop). He mentioned this would be good for a soundwave, so we had to paste this info on Max Paynes 3Dsound support. Does this guy look like Ace Ventura or what? They just updated their development script so you might want to check out the site. Here's an AVI and a Real Video , oh and some Images. Pic1 Pic2 Pic3

"Max Payne will be supporting 3D sound, but I'm not sure I'm ready to disclose which "standard" yet, as the discussion is quite heated on the subject (Aureal3D, Qsound, DS3D). We are experimenting what would be the best API to go for in the long run. Also it is not very clear yet what are the benefits of audio accelerators with different API's at this point. Music will be digital streamed audio. No XM or CD Audio."  

Best Regards, 
Markus 

Black And White Will Be Using QMixer
- June 8,98 2:02pm EST - Frank

We fired this up to Lionhead Studios where Russell Shaw gave us the information on Black & White sound system. With a short detailed answer, I'm sure you guys will like it. We'd like to thank the people over at Lionhead Studios for answering our SoundWave. Below is the full scoop along with some cool screenshots. Click Here for the Realaudio Lionhead music.

Black & White will be using the QMixer 3D library which obviously uses DSound3D.
Music will be AC3 Dolby Digital using a special API which allows interactivity between AC3 tracks.
Multi-Channel surround is the aim. - Russell Shaw Lionhead Studios

Pic1 - This is the stage we are at the moment.

Pic2 - And this is the kind of look we are aiming for.

I-War Will Not support Any 3D sound
- June 6,98 12:20pm EST - Frank

I-War from Partyicle Systems is one awsome looking game I must say, so we had to send them a soundwave to see if it would support A3D, Directsound3d, Qsound, Live! or any other 3d positional API. They had a quick response to our letter. Here's a Pic if you want to see how it looks. Below is the e-mail concerning the sound issue.

We don't have any plans at the moment to incorporate 3D sound support.
The game does have very good positional sound effects at the moment, but they don't use any 3D sound technology.
Our next game will almost certainly support 3D sound technology, as it'll probably be built into the API.

Hostile Waters Will Support DirectSound3D
- June 1,98 - 12:00pm EST - Frank

We recieved our soundwave from Rage and they threw in a line stating "Hostile Waters" will support Direct3DSound. Slated to release (Q1) 1999 Here are some pics:

Pic1     Pic2

John Romero - Daikatana To Use Miles Sound System
- June 30,98 - 3:25am EST - Frank

We didn't expect John Romero from ION storm to e-mail us back our soundwave do to the fact he must be a busy guy with his latest project Daikatana. But he did, he slipped us this little detail about the sound system in daikatana.

We will be using the Miles Sound System, which I believe uses DirectSound3D and ESS.

SpearHead Wont Support 3Dsound Anytime Soon
- June 23,98 - 3:40pm est - Frank

Vince Mathew / InteractiveMagic / Product Manager of Spearhead sent our Soundwave back to us with some detail as to what may happen to SpearHeads 3Dsound support. Here is the full e-mail:

To answer your questions, unfortuantely at this time there are no plans to support 3D 
audio cards with Spearhead. However, 3D audio is a very hot topic with our 
dev. team and the producer assures me we are addressing this issue. A patch 
for Spearhead is possible, but not in the immediate future.

Pic1      Pic2

Blade Will Support Q-Sound
- June 22,98 - 5:58am est - Frank

We sent RebelActStudios one of our spicy sound waves on their upcoming Rpg based game Blade. We got a short reply stating it would support Qsound. So here's more information we would like to give the average gamer: With over 15 different environments, Blade has one of the most powerful engines you have ever seen.  The world of Blade is designed totally in 3D.    The characters and objects are created with polygons in real 3D and include skeletal deformation systems with gouraud shadowing, texture mapping and inverse kinematics - all in real time.  Characters walk, run, jump, swim, dive, crawl and fly. It uses Q-Sound technology 3D Positional Stereo sound. The game will support any screen resolution, starting from 320x200 pixels with 16-bit color depth up to 1024x768 pixels. Blade will also support special hardware such as the 3Dfx, Power VR, 3D Blaster Card, MGA Matrox acceleration, I-Glasses and MMX. Here's some pics. 

Pic1      Pic2

Seed Will have DirectSound For Now
- June 19th - 4:20am est - Frank

We recieved our SoundWave we sent to the developers of Seed. Based on its great looking game (pic at the bottom) Here's the soundwave:

We have not been implemented any 3D sound system into the game yet
however according to our hopes it will be.  Actually must admit we are
pretty unacquainted with such APIs therefore we are considering to use
Microsoft's DirectSound.  

Team Seed

Hexen2 Will Not Have A3D, Although Heretic2 And Soldier Of Fortune Are Possible
- June 18th - 5:05pm est - Frank

I played hexen 2 a while ago and just had to ask Raven if they had any intension of throwing a 3dsound patch on it. They gave me info on other games that will support 3d Positional sound. They replied

No, sorry. There are not currently any plans to support A3D or the like
in Hexen 2. Our new titles that we are currently working on will have
support for A3d in them. This includes both Soldier of Fortune and
Heretic 2.

Private Wars To Support 3D Sound
- June 18th - 4:53pm est - Frank

Our good man sergey from Tsgroup-inc gave us more info than we expected on this one. It appears private wars will support both A3d and Directsound3d Here is more:

Yes, we support for positional sound. In fact we believe that it's hard to
create "be there" feel without any 3D sound sources. We started using
positional audio in our previous project - racing game called "Lethal
Speed". We used our own proprietary algorithms for creating stuff like a
Doppler effects and so on.

Right now for Private Wars, we'll support both Aureal3D and DirectSound3D as well. Personally I think A3D will be our primary platform for positional audio.

Plus we use our own algorithms to create different sound effects from set of
basic sounds - imagine having several simple wilderness effects like a
cicadas and cricket sound, then add ambient wind and mix them to create
unique sound pattern for environment.

( T.T.T ) Thrust' Twist Turn Will Support Directsound3d, A3d
- June 18th - 5:03am est - Frank

Dont you just love the soundwaves? T.T.T. is going to be one of the best looking racing games yet. Why not make it the best sounding game yet? Cartsgame has a couple of pictures on it, and let me tell you, this is one game to look forward to. Since we were visually impressed by the graphics , we sent a soundwave to Cartsgame hoping they would reply back. They did, Check this out:

We are currently testing different methods to get surround sounds in T.T.T.
The game will support at least Aureal´s A3d and Microsoft´s DirectSound3D.

-Mika / CARTS

Emergent Sofware - Power Slide To support A3D
- June 17, 2:29pm est - Frank

GT-interactive E-mailed us today with 1 simple line stating :

-PowerSlide will support A3D sound.

What is PowerSlide?
Brace yourselves, speed demons, for the fastest, smoothest gameplay off-road racing has ever seen! PowerSlide^TM (W95) combines state-of-the-art technology with expansive, highly realistic terrain and hyper-resolution graphics - all at twice the frame rate of any other racing game! Features 10 off-road tracks, 6 vehicles, 4 classes, independent wheel suspension and superior A.I..

Tonic Trouble To support DirectSound3D, A3D2.0?
- June 16, 4:07pm est - Frank

E-mail from Ubisoft on Tonic Trouble

Tonic Trouble--the upcoming Retail version of the game:

This version uses Dolby Surround Sound tracks and, if hardware is available,
DirectSound3D.  An A3D2 version is TBD. Tonic Trouble OEM version
(bundled with Pentium II machines):This version uses Dolby Surround sound
effects and sound tracks. The upcoming DVD version of Tonic Trouble:
This version uses Dolby Surround sound effects and sound tracks.  FMV and DVD
Video partly uses Dolby Digital (AC3).

Starsiege - Rick Overman
- June 15, 4:07pm est - Mark

As we promised you yesterday, with special thanks to Helen Pai and Rick Overman of Dynamix, here is some excellent audio information on the upcoming title from Dynamix,  Starsiege.

Let me start by saying that the Starsiege development team is dedicated
to providing our users with "bleeding edge" 3D audio.

Starsiege will support the following 3D audio solutions:
-Our proprietary software 3D sound positioning system.
-DirectSound3D
-Aureal A3D
-Creative Labs LIVE! environmental audio extensions
-Dolby encoded Redbook audio

Rick Overman
Lead Programmer/Director Starsiege
Dynamix, Inc.

Ares Rising - Joel
- June 10,  5:22pm est - Frank

We fired a Soundwave up to Imagine Studios. We asked if Ares Rising would have any sort of 3Dsound API implemented or a patch coming later on . Joel from ImagineStudios replied:

Here is what our producer said:

"We support DirectSound through Miles sound system, but there isn't any support for DirectSound3D.  We've got stereo, but that's about it."

-Joel
Just thought you might wanted to know that.

Spencer Maiers from Monolith
- June 10, 12:34am est - Frank

Well, here's a new *SoundWave*. We contacted (Spencer) from Monotlith and asked him if they would support 3d positional sound in games to come? He replied:

"Our 3D products will definitely support 3D positional audio... In fact,
we support many new audio features like Interactive Music in our 3D
games. Check out our 3D engine here: http://www.lithtech.com"

Special thanks to spencer for the reply. We keep it short all the time so that we get a reply.Watch for more Soundwaves to come.

Micheal Puffy - and Deliverence
- June 5, 2:34am est Frank

I gave Big Mike there a question on whether Deliverence would support A3D or DirectSound3D, He e-mailed me back saying:

"Right now we have no plans for 3D positional audio in Deliverance From
The Dark.  It is a pre-rendered 3D isometric perspective game, so you
won't be "in" the environment.   Our next engine will be 3D and we will
use 3D sound at that time, but that's still a couple years in the
future. (^_^)"

Later,
Michael Duffy

*He also gave me a happy face with that.

Pax Wars E-mail
- June 4, 12:01am est Frank

"We're currently supporting Direct sound with the 3d stuff.  We'll probably be doing other stuff as we get closer to release. Patches suck...Anything we care enough to support, we'll ship with."

-Randy Pitchford aka DuvalMagic™
 Chief Game Architect
 Rebel Boat Rocker, Inc
 www.rebelboatrocker.com

Obviously not a patch supporter, The folks at id should talk to him about that.

Shiny's Messiah E-mail
- June 4, 12:00am est Frank

Shiny Working With Dolby Labs? I fired an E-mail off to Shiny Entertainment asking about any planned support of positional audio for A3D or DirectSound3D and got the following prompt response from Scott Herrington of Shiny.

"Let's just put it this way, we're working closely with Dolby Labs on the sound design for the game.... We think you'll be quite pleased with our spatial positioning techniques in the game"

Scott Herrington

Skip Sends Us An Important Tidbit About Descent:Freespace
- June 3, 12:25am est Mark

" Skip from Aureal mentioned in an E-Mail to me today that Descent: FreeSpace from interplay,
which is to be released later this week, includes A3D Authentication and will
not run in 3D audio mode without real A3D hardware."

Montezumas Revenge e-mail
- June 1, 12:08am est Frank

Ok about a week ago I E-mailed Utopia Technologies about Montezumas Revenge, if it had A3d or Directsound 3d or will be getting it anytime soon? Even though i dont understand some of it cause he stated some of it wrong, ill e-mail him about it again Here is the info:
Hello Frank.

Thanks for the email.
There will be a D3D port done with the final release in Sept. I'm not sure about Direct Sound at the moment.

All the best,
Steve
http://www.utopiatech.com 

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