My game has several different cannons / guns, and every time you shoot, it plays a small ‘pew’ sound effect. However, it seems Phaser 3 does not have a way to support extremely fast repeating sounds, which is a problem for my machine guns. With some of the faster guns, you can’t even hear the audio …

Depending on the result you are looking for, there could be a few different solutions. If you want to have multiple instances of the sound playing at once, for example each time you shoot a bullet we want to trigger an instance of the ‘pew’ sound, you could create pool of these audio objects and the…

A sound created by add.sound() is a single track that will restart if you call play() while it’s already playing. If you want to play simultaneous sounds and don’t care about when they complete it’s probably simplest to do this.sound.play('pew', { volume: 0.03 }) etc.

Repeating audio bug

Phaser 3

TomAtom August 3, 2025, 7:02am 4

Check my answer here. It is about building simple audio manager with slots, that allows you to play the same sound multiple times. It works well for me.

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Repeating audio bug

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