ABSTRACT
Split screen for games, once tremendously popular before the advent of networked multiplayer, is once again becoming an increasingly popular method to encourage local social gameplay. This chapter details the constraints and challenges of supporting a split screen mode in a game audio engine. Split screen for audio is particularly challenging given the burden on CPU, memory, and content creation. A method is introduced which is a reasonable compromise and offers the simplest and most effective solution for split screen support for audio.
