• Register

Machinations is a real-time strategy game where you manage and direct swarms of ships to take over and destroy your enemies. Plan your attacks carefully to gain the the most tactically advantageous Nodes (space-stations which build and house your fleet). Upgrade your Nodes with defensive lasers or build shipyards to augment your fleet. Capture super-weapons to cut swathes through your enemies' fleet. Play against up to three AI players in frantic, randomised melees matches. Or complete the Campaign mode to help Admiral Sudo (your robotic commander) reclaim his lost empire.

Forum Thread
  Posts  
Global loss of sound on device during gameplay (Games : Machinations : Forum : Bugs : Global loss of sound on device during gameplay) Locked
Thread Options
MilkFairy
MilkFairy Yoghurt enthusiast
Nov 10 2012 Anchor

Present in versions 0.0.1 and 0.0.2 .
Only seen on Android Gingerbread 2.3.6, not observed on Android ICS 4.0.4 yet.

No steps to reproduce for this one, as it happened out of the blue for an unknown reason.
During gameplay, I suddenly realised all sounds had stopped working.
Turns out all sound had stopped working on the *entire* device, not just in Machinations.
I have never seen this happen on my device, so I assume it was something that Machinations did.
A restart of the entire device was necessary to restore sound.

Other side effects as a result of this bug was the failure to play the opening Graham Games video (presumably because the audio was not working, Android decided that the entire video could not be played) . I just received a message from the Android system saying the video could not be played, but then the game still launched OK (without sound, of course) .

I seem to also recall from memory other times where I've lost sound in the game after being interrupted by an external OS event, but in those cases it was not global loss of sound on the entire device - restarting Machinations brought back the sound in-game.

--

MilkFairy
Bippity-boppity-MOO!  :P

Reply to thread
click to sign in and post

Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.