Because early on (like december and hoot 0.2) I decided to init audio context on page load. I carried this code over and only found out last day that chrome requires a user gesture before it will allow starting the audio context.
Of the time I got to work on it, most of it was figuring out how to get the hoot 0.2 stuff to compile on 0.4 because I'm a scheme noob and didn't understand import changes. With all the technical details identified now I'm going to make it more user friendly and will do an ANN on mailing list afterwards.
The game jam was a great spark to get back into things, much appreciated!