About the Music in Guess the Drawing
There is no music file in Guess the Drawing. Nothing is streamed and nothing is downloaded. The soundtrack is generated by your browser while you play.
How it works
Classic game music from the 8-bit era was not recorded — it was a list of instructions for a sound chip, which produced square waves, triangle waves and noise in real time. The game does the same thing with the Web Audio API:
- a triangle wave for the bass line,
- a square wave for the arpeggio,
- a short burst of filtered noise for the hi-hat.
A scheduler plays a four-bar chord progression at 104 BPM, changing the arpeggio pattern each bar so the loop does not grate. The whole soundtrack is a few dozen lines of code and adds nothing to the page weight.
Licensing
Because nothing is sampled or recorded, there is no third-party copyright involved:
- No licence is required to listen to it or to let others play the game.
- No attribution is required.
- The composition and the code are original work by Line2Art and are used here commercially with full rights.
- No performing-rights society, no royalties, no expiry.
Turning it off
Open the game, tap the gear icon, and set Background music to Off. The choice is stored in your browser, so it stays off next time. Sound effects have their own separate switch, so you can keep one and drop the other.
If the music does not start at all, your browser is probably blocking audio until you interact with the page. Press the Start button — that counts as the interaction and unlocks sound.