Dark Deception w/ 3D spatial sound 🎧 (X3DAudio HRTF) WEAR HEADPHONES!
Channel: I Drink Lava - 3D Game Audio
Date: 2018-10-07

Turn up your volume and use headphones only with any virtual surround features turned off. Best scary binaural audio at 0:38, 1:36, 3:11, 8:20, 9:15, 11:45, and 12:40.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/332950/Dark_Deception/
It seems that only once in a lifetime, our culture is graced with a true work of art that transcends generations. A greater tale of love and tragedy than Romeo & Juliet has never been written, nor a song more beautiful than Beethoven's Ode to Joy movement of Symphony No. 9 ever performed. My friends, the year 2018 A.D. is when we shall witness the most terrifying work of horror ever created in any medium: Dark Deception. Glowstick Entertainment has undoubtedly added a whole new layer to Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous words: "[...] the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself".

Using the X3DAudio HRTF wrapper (and preferrably an Oculus Rift if VR support is ever added), you too will learn what it truly means to be frightened. Yes, the terror of Dark Deception in fact goes beyond the inability to shut off Motion Blur or Chromatic Aberration. Impressively, the effects of binaural audio are two-fold: it makes locating monsters within the labyrinth much easier but it also magnifies the fear of impending doom when you are inevitably cornered. Indeed, there are few genres of games that benefit from the immersion of 3D positional audio as much as "a story driven first-person horror action maze game". The subtle XAudio2 reverb and occlusion effects are a nice touch, as well.

...Okay, but in all seriousness, this is just some crappy, Twitch-bait meme game that's pretty much unplayable in its current state without the HRTF wrapper. It's Five Nights at Pac-Man's; take that as you will. Frankly, I wish more Unity games would transfer over to UE4 so we could get 3D audio this good.


HRTF grade:
A

Settings:
Windows Control Panel: Stereo
IRC_1037 HRTF tables placed in "HRTF" directory and renamed to "MIT_KEMAR_32000.mhr", "MIT_KEMAR_44100.mhr", "MIT_KEMAR_48000.mhr", and "MIT_KEMAR_96000.mhr".

Links:
https://github.com/kosumosu/x3daudio1_7_hrtf
https://mega.nz/#!iKp1XCxZ!2Ja9MXE_5JR2GS1PH_r-58qEiXYAtVFcz4vhkEQVP8Q
(you'll need this to fix any sounds playing at full volume at all times)
http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/salles/listen/

Credits:
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps/332950/header.jpg?t=1538269704
(Use of this logo falls under fair use laws for non-profit usage.)



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