Joint Responsive Production Playback
What is Responsive Playback?
Responsive Playback refers to a concept in Joint where the playback of Joint Manager can adapt based on the localized assets or client-specific settings.
This is one of the most powerful features of Joint, as it allows you to create a single Joint Manager that can handle multiple cultures or client-specific variations without needing to create separate Joint Managers for each case - while still maintaining a consistent structure and flow including timing specialized for each client. (which means that this magic still works for multiplayer games as well)
The Problem with Different Cultures & Clients
In many applications, especially games, content needs to be tailored to different cultures (localization) for a global audience; for example, voice-overs, text, and even certain visual elements may need to change based on the player's region.
And each culture may require very different timing adjustments; for instance, the timing of voice-overs may differ significantly between languages due to differences in speech patterns and sentence structures.
This creates a challenge for developers: How can you make them timed perfectly one by one?
In the traditional timeline-based systems, this often leads to the need for creating separate timelines or sequences for each culture, which can be cumbersome and error-prone, leading to increased maintenance overhead and potential inconsistencies across different versions of the content. Or you can try to "cramp" all the variations into a single standard culture's length, but this often results in a suboptimal experience for other cultures, as the timing may feel rushed or too slow.
How Joint Solves This Problem
Joint's Responsive Playback system addresses this challenge by the most elegant way possible.
It makes every content in a form of modules that can be dynamically adjusted based on the culture or client settings, allowing the next content to start right after the previous content ends.
Which means that you can achieve perfect timing for each culture without the need for multiple timelines or sequences.
We strongly believe that this concept alone is a game-changer for content creation and localization workflows.