Play Music
Play music media
Description
The play music
action let's you, as it name says, play some background music for your game. You can play as many songs as you want simultaneously.
To stop the music, check out the Stop Music documentation.
Action ID: Music
Reversible: Yes
Requires User Interaction: No
Parameters
Properties
The following is a comprehensive list of the properties available for you to modify certain behaviors of the play music action.
Assets Declarations
To play a song, you must first add the file to your assets/music/
directory and then declare it. To do so, Monogatari has an has a function that will let you declare all kinds of assets for your game.
Supported Formats
Each browser has it's own format compatibility. MP3 however is the format supported by every browser.
If you wish to use other formats, you can check a compatibility table to discover what browsers will be able to play it.
Examples
Play Music
The following will play the song, and once the song ends, it will simply stop.
Loop Music
The following will play the song, and once the song ends, it will start over on an infinite loop until it is stopped using the Stop Music Action.
Fade In effect
The following will play the song, and will use a fade in effect.
Custom Volume
The following will set the volume of this song to 73%.
Please note however, that the user's preferences regarding volumes are always respected, which means that this percentage is taken from the current player preferences, meaning that if the player has set the volume to 50%, the actual volume value for the song will be the result of:
All Together
Of course, you can combine all of this properties, and remember the order doesn't really matter, you can write the properties on the order that feels more natural to you.
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