How to trigger audio events while programming games?

[Nuudles]

Hi,

 

I'd like to explain my titel a bit better here.

For example if you play a RPG and you strike with your sword, your character says something like "hugh!". Now everytime you do this the game knows when to play that sound.

 

But where is this information stored? Is there a special software where you can assign different sounds to different events in the game? And tell them when to trigger?`Or is there a kind of audio motion track of a game?
Or are there single/multiple assignments in the programm code? Or do they use a special file format to connect event and sound? e.g. something like a file with meta data like they have in the movie file section.

Hope my question is somehow intelligible 

Otherwise feel free to ask me again
 

Thanks and greetz
Nuudles
 

[LukeSavenije]

well, let's say it's a programming language (doesn't matter which)

It will tell the game if something happens, do that

on this one it's simply said (but different in the programming language) if swing sprite (sword) play sound (hugh)

 

edit: I use wav as it can be converted to both mp4 and ogg vorbis

Edited November 30, 2018 by LukeSavenije

[Nuudles]

Ok. The programming process is just what I thought.

So there is no way to give me all the sound events of a game in a file or format?
If there would be something like this I could take the sounds from a game, put in my own sounds and I could hear them when the game sends the right trigger for it.
 

[tikker]

4 hours ago, Nuudles said:

So there is no way to give me all the sound events of a game in a file or format?

If you can find the sound, technically you can change it. How difficult this is depends on whether the sound files are simply stored in an audio directory as e.g. sword_strike.wav or in a more fancy way somewhere less obvious.

[Nuudles]

On 11/30/2018 at 7:36 PM, tikker said:

If you can find the sound, technically you can change it. How difficult this is depends on whether the sound files are simply stored in an audio directory as e.g. sword_strike.wav or in a more fancy way somewhere less obvious.

Yeah, old games had a directory with all the soundfiles but this isn't the case today. 
I was just wondering if there is a different solution today. Like the file or format i mentioned.