· HTML5Chiptune in WebAudio: a soundtrack with no files
No mp3s, no assets: all of FIDATI.'s music is synthesized in real time with WebAudio. Square and triangle waves for the voices, filtered noise for percussion, a forty-line sequencer reading patterns written as strings. Each world has its theme: Geometric Space is almost cheerful (it's the tutorial, it has to fool you), Mars is in a minor key, Inferno is a bassline rising a semitone every bar, like the lava. The practical win: the game stays a single HTML file under 50KB. What WebAudio gave me in simplicity, the SID is now making me pay back with interest. But that's another story, further up this devlog.