A new guide is here! The Game Audio Toolbox lists some of my favorite tools beyond the DAW that help me get the other 40-60% of my work done! From solving audio math to improving your file search experience, from batch-editing attenuations to capturing GIFs… #gameaudio #sounddesign #wwise #gamedev

pushing 1417 files on perforce and going to bed, you can ping me in my dreams if the build breaks

Now with Lynked: Banner of the Spark fully released I can share the work I did for the late game areas. Here's a compilation of some of my favorite sounds I made for the enemy robots!

came across this sick lighting vfx animation and had to do a sound design take on it - been practicing my synth game lately, so took it as a challenge to only use synths for this one the original artwork was posted by Deeamo Julien here: lnkd.in/epP49-fH

New from me—I had a great time at PAX East last week and met truly incredible developers. I was also pulling my hair out at how many small teams outnumbered proper-sized studios. It's good that indies can punch above their weight. It's bad that it's replacing stable work in games!

a few weeks late, but i now work at thatgamecompany as an audio designer!

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

Lynked: Banner of the Spark spotted in the wild! pretty cool to see a game I worked on in the PAX floor :)

I think I haven't posted Joy on her own here yet. This is Joy~

in the conned clave. straight up "choosing it". and by "it", haha. well. let's justr say. My pontiff.

From the creators of user stories and jobs to be done comes a new Product Management framework

pour one out for the kids who used to write other kids essays for money, that's a rapidly disappearing market

I 100% would have used ChatGPT for homework when I was in school, because homework sucked ass. However, if I hadn't been forced to bullshit a lot of essays 15 minutes before class I wouldn't have learned that I enjoy writing. The moral is to destroy both ChatGPT and homework.

how much of video games discourse is people seeing a game sell well and automatically going "this game Did Things Right and is Good and Moral" or seeing a game flop and going "this game Did It Wrong and is bad"

there's always, always some unexpected hit game with a lot of resources behind it that gamers want to create confirmation bias narratives of success and be like "just make a good game" about, from Disco Elysium to Clair Obscur. one of the most perpetually irritating aspects of the game sphere

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Your mangled brain would like you to know there is a boxer called Contact Mike. YOU - Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother? ENCYCLOPEDIA - Nope.

I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶

Gonna be doing a panel among some fine folks at Pax East talking about how we started our careers in game audio! @noabeazley.bsky.social @chelwongaudio.bsky.social and Aizhou Liu!

Please take the GameSoundCon #GameAudio industry survey! We have been conducting this survey since 2014 on game audio trends, salaries and other info www.surveymonkey.com/r/GSCGameAud... The survey is anonymous It should take 5-7 minutes to complete. Results will be posed this summer.

the sly devil #gaming #oblivion #blutoid

Another cpu-melting patch from today

Ok I genuinely need some input. I have this game concept and I can't tell if the idea is just too fucking weird to have an actual audience. There's a little "beta signup" at the end of this thread so you can register your interest to tell me if I should build this! You could also repost! Thread:

they should have Guitar Hero guitars in karaoke rooms

Lynked release date announced! The world will finally be able to peep the sfx work I did on the final boss :)

Boston Gamedev Week is gonna be so rad! Come hang out! I'm leading a few discussion sessions in the Relaxing Chats blocks--should be a good time: Survival Game Design Innovative Game Mechanics Team Culture and Vision Holders

Introducing BOSTON GAMEDEV WEEK - May 5-11! 🥳 Traveling to Boston for PAX East? Join us early for a week full of developer-focused events including meetups, roundtable chats, GodotCon, indies demo night and more! Full schedule at gamedev.boston #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

This one's been in the works for a long time and we're so excited to see it coming together! If you're in Boston for PAX East week and looking for dev-facing events to attend, we've got you covered! Signal boosts greatly appreciated.

Hey bsky! We're Boston Game Dev, a community nonprofit supporting the local game development scene. We help groups big and small run meetups, jams, demo nights, lectures and more. Watch this space for more news about what we have coming up! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Note for future GDCs: if you find yourself in possession of male genitalia, DO NOT alleviate yourself in the bathroom of the 2nd floor of the West Hall (there are no dividers on the urinal and you WILL see hog and show hog)

people thinking an NPC that outputs different text forever is good remind me of (no shade to people reading this it applies to I love y'all) new game programmers who are sure randomizing everything will lead to replayability without enough understanding of design yet to first achieve one playability

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The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.

Our book, Elevate Your Audio Production with REAPER is finally available worldwide! Written by Marco Galvan and myself, this book will provide you with a thorough primer for many different audio workflows in an easily digestible format. I can't wait to hear what you think about it!

hello, I'll be at GDC this year for the first time! would love to chat and grab a drink with friends old and new alike - see you all there :)

being seeded probably feels good asf if ur a torrent

doing some talking at game audio boston this month!

Lynked is running for best sound design LETS GOOOOO

To cap out my recent shareout of my work on Lynked: Banner of the Spark, I put together this reel showing my favorite sfx I did for the early access release. Excited for v1 to release next year so I can show even more stuff I did for the game! #gamedev #gameaudio www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNK-...

Suoer excited! We've just announced our next game! And believe it or not, it's our first sequel - A Matter of Murder: Second Stab. It's a rogue-like point and click puzzle game inspired by the golden age of detective fiction. #indiegame #indiegames #SecondStab www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D4v...

Crafting some magic source material for this month's #SFXSwap with some of my crisp icicle friction recordings and #SoundParticles. #gameaudio #sounddesign #fieldrecording #soundeffects #gamedev

Some of the sfx I made for the chests of Lynked: Banner of the Spark! One of them is not like the others.... #gamedev #gameaudio

A good ol’ throwback to a 2021 jam of mine sounding like Spyro had one too many coffees. #bassplayer #gameaudio #vgm #ableton #bassplayer

If you ever wondered how you can use your Xbox controller to do sound design, I made this video going over how to set up your gamepad as a midi controller in Reaper and how I've been using it to get some cool motion in my sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAT...

Some more work I did for Lynked: Banner of the Spark! This one is a compilation of some of the interaction sfx I designed - the grapple is such a fun mechanic of the game and I had a blast making a range of interactions for it, from tactile Foley to powerful blasts #gamedev #gameaudio

Hey everyone! Since this is shaping up to be the new hub for #gameaudio and #gamedev folx we decided to join as well! We’re the hub for game audio people in New England and part of the Boston Game Dev organization. Join us for monthly meetups, talks, networking opportunities and more! 👾🎧🎤

One of my favorite tasks I did for Lynked: Banner of the Spark was the Inquisitor Obsidia boss fight sound design - specially since I got to perform and design all of her combat vocalizations myself hehe #gamedev #gameaudio

Here’s the YouTube video, for those who don’t have / want to see on Instagram youtu.be/nEjwX9C1Oj0?...

legit one of my favorite parts of working doing sfx for Re:Awaken is that I get to listen to Noa's sick music before anyone else xD

Super excited about the recent release of Lynked: Banner of the Spark on early access! Meaning I get to finally share some of the work I did for the game Here's a compilation of some of my favorite traps I did sound for :) #gamedev #gameaudio