Audio Atlas Architect

Overview

Audio Atlas Architect is a build tool for game audio pipelines. It encodes raw sound files into optimized sound banks with JSON metadata, supporting configurable bitrate, channel count, localization, multi-bank layouts, and build caching for fast incremental builds.

How It Works

Define your sound bank structure in a configuration file:

{
  "name": "sounds",
  "concurrency": 4,
  "cache": ".cache",
  "banks": {
    "common": {
      "base": "/assets/sounds/common",
      "media": {
        "effects": {
          "channels": 2,
          "bitrate": 64
        }
      }
    },
    "unicorn": {
      "extends": "common",
      "media": {
        "music": { "channels": 2, "bitrate": 80 },
        "voice": { "channels": 1, "bitrate": 32, "localization": ["*"] }
      }
    }
  }
}

Then build with a single command:

audio-atlas-architect config.mjs

Features

• Multi-bank support — Organize sounds into separate banks (common, per-game, per-level)
• Bank inheritance — Banks can extend other banks to share configuration
• Localization — Automatic handling of localized voice assets
• Build caching — Incremental builds via .cache directory for fast iteration
• Configurable encoding — Per-media-type control of channels, bitrate, and format
• JSON metadata — Generated metadata for runtime sound loading

Tech Stack

Language	TypeScript (97.9%)
Runtime	Node.js
Encoding	ffmpeg

Source Code

The source code is available on the project’s GitHub repository.