Return to the Audiokinetic Launcher application, select the Samples page and choose Samples.

Click Run Cube.

As the Cube game launches, you may get a notification indicating the Windows Firewall has blocked some features of the program. This is because this version of Cube uses a network connection to speak to Wwise as you’ll learn in Lesson 1: Quick Start–From Silence to Sound. It’s important that this capability is not blocked by Windows.

If you get a Windows Security Alert window, click Allow Access.

The game opens. Each time you run the game, you’ll begin in an empty level, which provides you with an opportunity to run around and explore your sound design without having to worry about the monsters finding you.

The game uses standard first-person keyboard controls. For this tutorial, the main controls you need to familiarize yourself with are:

Briefly play the game and be sure to fire the Wwizard's default magical monster minimizer, the ice gem.

As you move, you'll hear footsteps that change based on the surface you're walking on. When you throw the Ice Gem from your staff, you'll hear its blast as well as the sound of the gem falling to the ground and breaking apart with a different audible pattern each time it's played. This sonic feedback makes the game much more gratifying than if there were only silence. In the subsequent exercises, you’ll discover the basic principles of how these sounds and many other sounds are integrated into Cube using the Wwise sound engine.

	On Windows, press Alt+Tab to return to the Windows desktop or the Wwise program.

Once you’re done familiarizing yourself with Cube, you’ll need to exit the game.

Press Esc and use the up and down arrows to select quit and then press Enter.