Comments on: Ocarina of Meme: iPhone Plays Zelda by Blowing

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:10:08 +0000

great work Ge. I’ve been having some fun with ChucK ever since ISMIR. cheers,
Patrick.

By: JohnG

JohnG — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:00:04 +0000

Ah, interesting. This comes back to the question of how they can get this into the app store, as a chuck script is interpreted. Unless they have changed it so everything is hardcoded in.

Also strange that they are not advertising the fact that they are using Chuck…

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:29:47 +0000

From the application logs folder on a jailbroken phone :

[2008.11.12 13:31:31.119] starting chuck…
[2008.11.12 13:31:38.676] buffer duration – preferred: 0.016000 : actual: 0.016000
[2008.11.12 13:31:38.815] sample rate – preferred: 16000.000000 : actual: 16000.000000
[2008.11.12 13:31:38.931] route is ‘SpeakerAndMicrophone’
[2008.11.12 13:31:39.024] hardware sample rate of 16000.000000 (iPhone 3G) detected
[2008.11.12 13:31:39.116] route = ‘SpeakerAndMicrophone’ : output gain = 1.000000 : input gain = 1.250000
[2008.11.12 13:31:40.180] chuck ready…

By: JohnG

JohnG — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:50:08 +0000

I don’t see anywhere that says that it uses Chuck, where did you get that from?

By: RichardL

RichardL — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:46:29 +0000

Ocarina is currently the top paid iPhone app on iTunes. That’s impressive.

By: Axel

Axel — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:37:07 +0000

It's worth noting that the app is based on the ChucK audio programming language. The company behind the app was founded by ChucK's creator Ge Wang.

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By: ml

ml — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:37:16 +0000

it does in fact react on the strength of your blowing.

By: Mix

Mix — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:13:00 +0000

Novel idea, which makes you look a bit of a tool, blowing hot air up your iPhones dodar.

By: Ogrim

Ogrim — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:18:26 +0000

Haha, funny! :D I love Zelda. I have the triforce on my hat! Woo