A Song in the Void
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Description
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Part creation myth, part emergent system, part musical instrument.

Made for the Super Friendship Club's Universe pageant:
http://superfriendshipclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=482


Controls
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Escape: Skip intro/quit.


Game Options
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The game will automatically start fullscreen at your desktop's current
resolution, with the game corrected to its desired aspect ratio.

You can pass the executable various command line flags:

Usage:
ASongInTheVoid.exe -w [width] -h [height] -a [val] -win -ns -nm -aa [name] -sl [val]

Flags:
--width [val] | -w [val]:	Set the width of the window.
--height [val] | -h [val]:	Set the height of the window.
--antialias [val] | -a [val]:	Sets the antialiasing level (2, 4, or 6).
--windowed | -win:		Sets whether to go windowed or not.
--nosound | -ns:		Switches off the sound output.
--nomusic | -nm:		Switches off the background music.
--audio-api [name] | -aa [name]:Sets the audio API to use.  Can be DirectSound,
				ASIO, MME, ALSA, JACK, OSS, CoreAudio.
--synthLimit [val] | -sl [val]:	Limits the number of synth voices to use
				(0->128).
--help:				Display this help.

These can also be set from the ASongInTheVoid.conf file that will be generated
when the program is first run. It resides at:

Windows XP:      Documents and Settings/<user name>/Application Data/ASongInTheVoid
Windows Vista/7: Users/<user name>/AppData/Roaming/ASongInTheVoid
Linux etc.:      /home/<user name>/.ASongInTheVoid
OSX:             /Users/<user name>/Library/Application Support/ASongInTheVoid


License Details
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Source code is licensed under the GPL v3. Graphics and sounds barring the
following exceptions are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The 'cacophony' sounds at the end are all from freesound:
http://www.freesound.org/people/Luftrum/sounds/48412/
http://www.freesound.org/people/sagetyrtle/sounds/36734/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/30832/
http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/18765/
http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/33827/
http://www.freesound.org/people/nofeedbak/sounds/41171/
http://www.freesound.org/people/han1/sounds/19026/
http://www.freesound.org/people/eric5335/sounds/52604/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/14604/
http://www.freesound.org/people/city11/sounds/118986/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/24205/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/22952/
http://www.freesound.org/people/lonemonk/sounds/31487/
http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/17185/
http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/13564/
(Some of the sounds have been shortened. All have been converted to .ogg)

And the image of earth comes from NASA:
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57723


- Niall Moody (08/02/12).
