Audio Plywood
A downloadable app
Summary
Audio Plywood is a Minimum Viable Lovable sound board for the Playdate. Have you ever felt you needed a hotel desk bell? Or a bzzzzzzz “you're wrong!” buzzer? Fire off a good punchline, followed by a rimshot. We don't have the world's tiniest violin, but there is a sad trombone. All of these sound cues, and more, can live in the little magic yellow device in your pocket.
Each direction button as well as A and B kick off different sound samples. The crank lets you move between different sound groups.
Audio Plywood is free to download and use. I hope it brings you laughter and joy at just the right times. More information about the audio samples can be found on my website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How much space does it take up?
A: Audio samples, even at low quality, are large. The app is mostly audio samples. In total, you're looking at about 1.3MB of space on the Playdate.
Q: What's the best way to use Audio Plywood?
A: I find it best to launch the app, use the crank to select a sound sound, hit the power button to put the playdate to sleep, and then put it in the pocket of your jacket or hoodie. Without looking at the screen, you can double-tap the power to wake it up, hit the sound effect buttons of your choosing, then hit power to sleep the device.
Q: Is this technically the first fart app for the Playdate?
A: To my knowledge, yes. I can't wait to see the first flashlight app.
Q: Can I customize Audio Plywood with my own sounds?
A: At this time, no. But be sure to keep an eye open for future updates.
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Love the app! Although after a few button presses on any sound board, the sound quality starts to degrade severely and the app sometimes crashes, along with the playdate. Hoping for a patch, I like this app a little too much!
Thanks for all of your comments, I'm just having fun, I may make another one (G&W game) I'm currently making my own version of Tapper, the arcade game with some graphics that I created back in 2009 for the iPhone 3GS and never used. I'm creating it with Godot game engine. The tick was just an escalating tempo thing to create tension, like the thump, thump in Space Invaders that gradually gets faster and adds to the tension over time etc.
Cool app. I saw in ur q and a that u cant add sounds. turns out you can :) I grabbed some sounds in pda format form our game and replced them with your and it works great :)
Yeah — replacing sounds should generally work. Most sounds will continue to play out to the end once you release the button. Some are in a short loop that instantly stops when you release the button (such as the buzzer). That’s hard-coded logic. You might get weird behavior when replacing sounds tied to that logic. The Q&A response was more about an official configurable way to extend the app with prepackaged sound-packs.