Dannii, with the new version of Glulx Entry Points coming out and the updates to Parchment, I was thinking about (once the new version of Inform releases) updating Bisquixe and switching over to Parchment (because I’ll have time to learn it now and won’t have to recode all the music). I’m very excited to see the progress in the tools everyone has access to!
Do you have an example of a gblorb with sound on IFDB where clicking the ‘play online’ button plays the music that I can use as a baseline? Most of the ones on there have custom interpreters or play on people’s websites due to the many years of not having online play. Do you know of any normal games that are uploaded as a gblorb with sound included?
Or, alternatively, is there a way to use iplayif with a url? I could try Angstsmurf’s soundtest game: Glulx sound test
Another question for technical purposes is, how did you handle file types? When I was working on Bisquixe I found that Inform wouldn’t play mp3s (due to outdated rules about copyright on mp3s, I suspect) and apple devices wouldn’t play .ogg, so Bisquixe currently requires both file types. What types of sound files does Parchment currently play?