Captivating with Sound

Immersion Starts with Sound

Audio really brings a game to life. So let’s immerse ourselves in the world of Unity’s audio options. This article will cover adding background music.

It would make sense to create a game object that will manage our game audio.

• Right click inside the Hierarchy panel, select “Create Empty”, and rename it “Audio_Manager”.

Because this will be my background music, I will create a separate game object to handle this.

• Right click on “Audio_Manager” in the Hierarchy panel, select “Create Empty”, and rename it “Background”.
• With “Background” selected in the Hierarchy panel, click on the “Add Component” button in the Inspector panel and find and select the “Audio Source” component.

• With “Background” selected in the Hierarchy panel, drag your background music asset from your Projects panel and drop it into the “AudioClip” slot in the “Audio Source” component.
• Because this is the background music, we want it to continually loop throughout gameplay. On the “Audio Source” component, click to add a checkmark for the “Loop” option.
• “Play on Awake” should already be checked. If not, click to add a checkmark for that parameter.

• Be sure to save your scene. You can run the game to test that the audio is playing in the background.

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