IEEE Game Sound Design for Accessibility

This project was a 2025 IEEE Competition entry designing sound design targeting visually impaired users in a fighting game environment 'FightingICE'. The objective is to develop spatial and functional sound design strategies that support blind and visually impaired users in experiencing a game.

Details for the 'DareFightingICE' sound design competition is here. Details about the game itself and the competition rules is here and here.

Installation Quick Guide (latest update 2025)

Prerequisites

Before setting up the project, ensure you have Python 3.12 installed on your system.

Quickstart with Docker

• Boot DareFightingICE
• Run the docker container

docker run -it --rm -e SERVER_HOST=host.docker.internal ghcr.io/teamfightingice/generative-sound-ai

Instruction

1. Install dependencies with pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install OpenAL Soft

• For Windows, please copy the DLL files in lib/windows to C:/Windows/System32 folder.

• For Linux (Ubuntu, other distros should be similar)

sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libopenal-dev makehrtf openal-info

• For MacOS

brew install openal-soft
echo 'export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openal-soft/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

3. Run the generative sound AI

• Boot DareFightingICE
• Execute main.py

python main.py