Dear authors, Every time your characters speak, especially when delivering exposition, they should be furthering our understanding of their character and role in the story. Don't just info dump. Respectfully, A reader.

Had a great time tonight chatting with Brian Michael Fuller and @ebuch.bsky.social about mixing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8p... #GameAudio #Mixing #ChatChatChat

🗣️ See you tonight at 6 PM PT for GADA's Town Hall Stream! Hear about what we do as a nonprofit dedicated to making #GameAudio a more diverse and inclusive industry, and learn how you can support us and our scholars! Youtube stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-h...

Want to learn more about what The Game Audio Diversity Alliance does? Check out the live Town Hall stream in half an hour:) #gameaudio #diversity #accessibility #lgbtqa #poc #bipoc #sounddesign #music #implementation #opportunities #networking #support #community

Today is my last day at Blizzard! Working with the World of Warcraft team has been such a fun, positive experience. I can't wait for players to see what we made together. Now I'm looking for my next role in games, full time or contract, indie or AAA. You can check out my portfolio on my website! 🖤

New experimental feature in MetaSounds found in Unreal Engine 5.7 is Live Audition update while editing a MetaSound! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TU8...

Creativity is not divine. Creativity is not talent. Creativity is a practice, it is an exercise. If you're not feeling creative, you need to practice creating. Breaking a writer's block is only achieved by writing through the block! GenAI doesn't unlock your creativity, it atrophies it.

Imagine hiring the best engineers in the industry and then having them reach for the mediocre output of gen AI. What a way to realize your quality bar is way lower than what you're paying for. Who needs the best engineers in that scenario?

Horray! I am psyched to be joined by the fabulous @pengarr.postes.club, @lauraintravia.bsky.social , Kelsey Mira, Annette Walker and @jillianaversa.bsky.social for our panel at #SoundGirls Virtual Conference this December:) tinyurl.com/SoundGirlsVi... #women #voice #singing #arranging #recording

Tonight's stream found us demonstrating techniques for runtime procedural variation in MetaSounds and revisiting the oxbow river formation example with a lighter weight real-time solution that has the same smooth result! #Unreal #Audio #Variation #MetaSound #MetaData #DoesAustraliaHaveCream #Tea

Going live with @ebuch.bsky.social and David Weaver in about 15 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Bw... Returning from a short break! Ready to eat MetaSounds for breakfast again!

Inside me there are two wolves and they’re named Williams. Inside me there are two Williams? #BookHaul #Biography #Williams

I'm receiving my last full unemployment payment this week. I would really love to line up some work! Open for Spot Illustrations, Portraits, Covers, Designs, and so much more! Personal use and commercial! Please get in contact if you've got a project! Thanks! www.coveofmadness.com

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Animation by Matt Williames & Bruce W. Smith* | The Princess and the Frog (2009) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

big thx to dan for having us on his livestream to do a wacky performance live! hilarious setup to make it work, including multiple streaming protocols and me (in LA) remote desktopping into aaron’s laptop (seattle) to do keyboard/scene changes

Folks, @tapes.club on Keyboard and @minuskelvin.bsky.social on Cornet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN5D... #Unreal #MetaHuman #MetaSounds #Performance

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Michelle, an illustrator/concept artist open for freelance, contract, and fulltime. Particularly hope to work on TTRPG, TCG, Fantasy/History adjacent projects! 💼: coveofmadness.com 📧: [email protected] #illustration #ttrpgart #conceptart #fantasyart

Yeah, no. I'm a contractor, I write for games, and sometimes that means writing 100% of a game's text. I'm a valuable part of the team! Contractors aren't just "support", they deserve to be credited (and treated) better than this

As a contractor, I have been on the core brand team, defining the look, voice, tone, and vibe of a game. I have developed workflows and processes that are used throughout an entire AAA publisher on multiple titles. I have written whole parts of a game. I have edited major aspects, too.

📰 GADA in the news! Our Fundraising Chair Colin Andrew Grant was featured in the MPSE magazine sharing his insights on interactive #GameMusic design, getting into #GameAudio, and advocacy with GADA. Thanks for your hard work Colin!

Look what I found in storage! #GANGAwards

Sending this out into the universe like a distress call from a stranded astronaut on a dead moon: Someone give me three million dollars to make a grungy little PS2-spec game where you build housing, sanitation, and electrical infrastructure for people living in the remains of a post-apocalypse

We have published the #gameaudio industry survey! Our bi-annual survey covers game audio salaries, freelance rates, contracts, education, and trends in game music and sound design A few stats: Outsourcing is up Salaries are up AI use is small, but growing www.gamesoundcon.com/post/gamesou...

This is the Strudel (I think) or related live coding thing we were looking at, @minuskelvin.bsky.social--they're killing it!

US TRANS FRIENDS: Drop your gofundmes, venmos, whatever ways of supporting you you have, in the replies. Then go make sure you have plans with loved ones to deal with the worst. I love you all. We will get thru it CIS PEOPLE: Go through the replies and donate money to someone. Then reskeet.

✈️ GADA #GameSoundCon 2025 Speaker Travel Stipend Applications are open! If you are an accepted speaker, check your email for the application link! We encourage underrepresented voices in #GameAudio who face financial hardship in attending the conference to apply.

Hey all! I am now open for commissions over on #VGen! I've got all my sketch options, simple shaded, and full render options available, as well as Custom Inquiries! vgen.co/CoveofMadness I look forward to working with ya'll illuminate your beautiful blorbos! #commissions #commissionsopen

Just did a little tech rehearsal with @tapes.club and @minuskelvin.bsky.social and I'm excited! Be sure to check out this novel live performance on tomorrow's livestream! Thursday, 6pm PT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUA... #Unreal #UE5 #VeryNormalJazz #MetaSounds #MetaHumans #MetaDataToDriveTraffic

Join us this Thursday when we squeeze even more people on screen at once and push the limits of screen sharing! What does all that mean? You'll just have to see to find out! 6pm Pacific! www.youtube.com/live/dLUAc5c... #UnrealEngine #Performances #UnrealPerformances #WhatDidYouThinkItWasAbout

If it feels like there is more outsourcing in #gameaudio, it looks like it's not just a feeling.. we have data to back it up. We're finishing up the Game Audio Industry Survey results. Report should be up next week <fingers crossed!> Check back at: www.gamesoundcon.com/survey

Really nice breakdown from 'The SFX Guy' on implementing custom impulse responses in Unreal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na_-...

team cherry is like "there wasn't any development hell. we just took seven years. you can wait." incredible. unparalleled. more of this.

A quick demo of what it looks like when Soundscape's Color Point system is powered by Unreal's PCG graph! Preview now, walk-through later this week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3e...

now that i am aware of the Precise Tone Plan i am unstoppable en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precise... #metasounds #synthesis #gameaudio

🎤 We're live in less than an hour!! If you can donate in any amount to help support our mission of building a more diverse and inclusive #GameAudio industry, we appreciate it! ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/dynamic-do...

Things are getting tense between me and Google search.

I don't know how I missed this, but a cool video from UnrealFest2024 was published showcasing audio tips for indie dev teams, including working with Soundscape! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaMX...

Keep making stuff. Let your soul be heard in the work you create, and release it into the world. We need it, now more than ever.

🎶 We'll be live on Wednesday at 7 PM PT! Join us for Dynamic Downbeats: A GADA Fundraiser with #GameMusic Composer Gordy Haab. Free admission, but donations help support our scholarships, such as our current GameSoundCon scholarship! Even if you can't donate, help spread the word! Links in 🧵

Fun chat tonight around FM Synthesis with @minuskelvin.bsky.social, @ebuch.bsky.social, and David Weaver! www.youtube.com/live/7Bnt3wj... #Unreal #UE5 #Audio #FM #PM #Synthesis #MetaSounds

📺 Save the date! Announcing our next livestream: Dynamic Downbeats: A GADA Fundraiser featuring Game Composer Gordy Haab (@gordyhaab.bsky.social) on Wednesday, August 13th at 7 PM PT on the GADA YouTube channel. Free admission but donations appreciated. ❤️ More info to come! #GameAudio #GameMusic

Patch made with an experimental Thru-Zero FM Node. Despite the fact that I think I ended up making a PM node instead, it's still useful for making tunes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMk... #UnrealAudio #MetaSounds #Synthesis #FM #PM

Save the date for the annual GADA stream fundraiser, this time with the exceptionally talented composer @gordyhaab.bsky.social where we’ll chat with him about his illustrious career composing for games! Keep an eye on @gameaudiodiversity.bsky.social socials as more info gets posted!!

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Pretty cool website. thanks for showing me. @dannthr.bsky.social benui.ca/why-i-refuse...

Process thread for the cover to my art book Carbon Based coming August 11 to kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni... Final vs layout 1/

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Fog/Clouds are so fluffy now! 4ms cheaper than my previous fog implementation and much prettier imo. Using Niagara particles with a topdown projection of the areas it should clear out.

Tomorrow night, @ebuch.bsky.social will be joining me on the Tech Audio Chat where I'll be going over some aspects of MetaSound Node Configuration, incorporating Data Assets to pass lots of config data into MetaSounds, and procedural music design and theory. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkcg...