Attention Melbourne! I'm talking at High Score next week on sustainable business in games. Been working my buns off for years on it. It's a good talk. Also: would love to hang.

If you're curious how things flow while playing Band Mates, here's a super quick example from just now, starting from the initial session state. We'll be opening up a public beta in the near future. Follow @grooveboxgames.bsky.social for more.

　 . ★⋆. ALBUM RELEASE . ★⋆. stutter is out now ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ♡ 🖇️ ⋆｡「 linktr.ee/laryssaokada 」 this record is a reflection of my innermost thoughts & pains over this past year. my god it's been a long one. but despite the world's horrors, we must persevere & create art. we must maintain our whimsy!

tonight !!!!

🚨 A rare freelance position at iGame.Audio opened up!! 🚨 Pls apply especially if you're from an underrepresented background in games!! Applications only open for a day or two - go go goooooo 👇👇👇👇 igame.audio/jobs/ #gameaudio #gamedevjobs

Hey everyone, I'm offering a product research & design workshop for software development teams! I've taught this process to dozens of teams, and now I'm offering a hybrid workshop/consultation package, perfect for teams without full-time designers! experioso.com

Y'know what. I'm going to post one song a day from now until I forget. Today's song is I Swear You Wanted Me Dead, by A Shell In The Pit, from Pacific Drive youtu.be/nF1uBf5gI_w?...

"File for bankruptcy" at an all time high.

[email protected] is where the greater part of my career was born & I was honoured to speak at Full Indie Summit on Saturday. Proud to say it got (as far as I can recall) the first standing ovation of my life 🥲.

Holy crap has anyone else come across reference to this? US company focused on "outdoor leadership" wanting to take long-term leases on over 77 locations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands? WTF? Here's a link to the application: comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/applications... Number: 1412379

How my plans to podium in the granfondo were foiled: In 2023 I noticed after the race that if I'd had different wheels, I would have qualified for the Classics category, & would have placed 2nd. Because only like 18 out of 6000 people signed up for Classics. I made it my mission to win Classics.

Knocked out my 2nd Whistler Granfondo. I blew a tire in the 1st 30 mins & while I was pissed in the moment, it made me chill out & enjoy the rest of ride more than I may have otherwise.

See ya tomorrow at 9AM 🚀👀 cherof.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt...

midnight blessing from child as I was debating whether a tooth is worth $50 bc who the heck carries change anymore

Overheard as kids are leaving for 1st day of school: 3yo: mom. grownups are annoying. 6yo: i didn't want you to *TELL* them!!

First really big ride in a couple years. Will see ya at the Whistler Granfondo after all (but it's gonna hurt). Love my new wheels.

fun fact: cut-&-come-again kale turns into mini palm trees after a while

my first several games the only production tools used were google sheets & skype/Gchat kinda miss it in a way

Time to officially announce my UX workshop! I've used this workshop with every client I've had in the past decade, and now I'm gonna try and sell it by itself. And I'm giving it FREE next Friday, the 29th, if I can get 6-12 people to reply in the next few days! Here it is! www.experioso.com

this one stays

never in a million years could I have seen this coming

Soundrop increasing their rates for distribution by 500% is so, so funny/confusing/wild. Support is quite literally nonexistent. I have no idea what you're paying for. Like does the parent company just want them gone? This seems like a "we're actively trying to bankrupt ourselves" move.

just surprised my wife by picking her up from the ferry in the Pulsar, kids in the back, blasting Taylor Swift. ngl: biggest natural high I've had in years.

That time again, new Beards, Cats, And Indie Game Audio podcast episode is ready for you. @asitp-gord.bsky.social joins me again and we chat about what's been going on since the last time we chatted and answer a few listener questions. indiegameaudio.podbean.com/e/beards-cat... #gameaudio

Hot take: most important filmmaker of the past century? David Attenborough. Scorsese & the Cohens & Miyazaki & Malick will all be forgotten first.

Just when I thought LinkedIn couldn't get more unbearable they're now **DMing ads** from arguably the most evil company on planet earth

Good (if true that they haven't been using creator content). My stuff remains pulled for the time being. That they leave themselves open for creating gen-AI tools (even if opt-in) is a bit shifty tho. press.soundcloud.com/249951-a-let...

Why this is important in games: devs want as many rights as possible. Rights to AI sounds are legally unenforceable. People can't steal exclusively-licensed library derivative sounds, even if you can't sell those rights--*someone* owns them. You cannot sell a license to an asset that has no owner.

New Waves (big shock lol) plugin "illugen" makes sounds from text prompts. They claim you own your output. Not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this is in contravention of the US Copyright Act.

while I was in the shower 3yo nabbed the brown sugar & supercharged the shit out of his oatmeal

I took a week off last month but my wife wound up being out of town for work & one of my kids got sick so I got absolutely nothing done & was more exhausted than the prior week.

It's coming Friday. Full mastering workshop. I know people have short attention spans... so I made it over an hour long because listening and being present is more important.

Hmmmmm

New Three Hour documentary about competitive Fantastic Contraption just dropped! youtu.be/L1AgRH-Rh-4?...

Seriously pull your music from Soundcloud ASAP.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

‼️ New Mythmatch Demo ‼️ We got rejected from all the summer showcases so just dropped our new demo! AND we've created a Steam page for it! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... So if you haven't played yet, enjoy this new polished version! And if you enjoyed it before, please leave a review!

One of my coolest career experiences was last week. invited to Estonia to do a keynote on sustainable business in games, then a full-day dynamic music workshop where we had access to a recording studio. Attendees wrote music & got it working dynamically. Then we found a LOTR bar.

Never given a talk in slippers before

Couldn't sleep on my flight and read a whole book cover to cover in one sitting. Cannot for the life of me recall the last time I did that.

Doing a talk at Music X Gaming in Estonia next week. I like this slide.

Yesterday we saw sea lions & seals, a sea otter, eagles, cormorants catching herring & endless tide pool curios. 5 mins from home where we looked at a jelly under the microscope. Love the city but I'm grateful we realized when our chapter there was done. This is where my kids were meant to grow up.

I am so pumped up for spring/summer dude

i just released Sneaky Sasquatch Vol 2: Sneaky Seconds. Been working on it since 2019 (oh god). If you like big fat obnoxious synths & big crashy beats with frequent left-field genre callouts you'll like it & so will your kids. open.spotify.com/album/7snAjv...

On Mar 31st 2020 we released Treachery in Beatdown City! Now we're putting out Beatdown City Survivors in 2025! To celebrate, I'm giving out a brand new Zelda TotK OLED Switch! Repost this, reply with a Beatdown City Survivors wishlist & at 500 reposts, I will pick 1 winner! 👉🏼 bit.ly/bcsrvrs

ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/the-el... The game and soundtrack are out now~

Working on the big finale of a podcast I have been editing for 3 years (The Real Brady Bros), and thinking about my freelance dance card. If you or someone you know needs a remote podcast editor/mixer with 17 years post-production experience (and reasonable rates), let's talk about it! 🎤🎧

i just released Sneaky Sasquatch Vol 2: Sneaky Seconds. Been working on it since 2019 (oh god). If you like big fat obnoxious synths & big crashy beats with frequent left-field genre callouts you'll like it & so will your kids. open.spotify.com/album/7snAjv...

Tell me ur 6yo taught themselves to read with Calvin & Hobbes w/o telling me ur 6yo taught themselves to read w calvin & hobbes