Woden is actually a game engine. Currently there is even some support for using bullet physics, but it is actually a bit hard to use because it requires compiling the bindings.
Of course, using sound will be optional. Integrating sound support is quite easy. There is only three things that need to be added to woden: Sound sources, sound listener and sound data.
The hardest part with sound is actually being able�� to play a .wav, .mp3. or a .ogg. Currently I am looking in the PharoSound package for existing infrastructure for loading or streaming these sound formats. But i think, that I will have to add the support for Ogg/Vorbis. I don't like using MP3 because of the infamous patents.
Is openAL proprietary now.. ? I guess it was open source and there is a fork now.
I use OpenAL because it is the only cross platform 3D audio API/library that I know about, and because it is really to use. I don't have to worry about multi-threading when using it.
I am not using SDL2 audio support because:
- It uses a callback for filling the sound buffer, which is run in another operating system thread.
- No 3D audio support.
Greetings,
Ronie