Journal 28 — Immersion in Games Using Sound

Audio adds another dimension to the game experience. In this example, we will update this game to add background music, and in the next Journal, we will add all the sound effects.

To start, we will create an empty game object, and call it Audio_Manager.

Unity Inspector, add empty game object and call it Audio_Manager

After the Audio_Manager is created, we will add child game object called Background, to play the background music.

Unity Inspector, add a child to the Audio_Manager and call it Background to handle the game music

With the Background game object selected, we will add an Audio Source component.

Unity Inspector for Background, add Audio Source component

Finally, now that we have an Audio Source, we can attach the background music audio clip. Also, we want this to play on awake at the start of the game, and we want it to loop, so make sure those options are checked.