The real MVP was the spaghetti code all along.

ok #gameaudio people of the PNW, I have an ask of you.

Our Sonic Landscape is coming up and I'm looking to spread the word. I would greatly appreciate if you would share this news with another audio person to let them know about it. especially if they aren't on this site.

www.oursoniclandscape.com

Laryssa is a good friend. please contribute if you can. #gameaudio

Support Kyle Fraser’s Recovery after Two Strokes

Some of you may know I’ve been dealing with a personal matter over the last week. Most of you do not. I consider myself a very private person but I need to ask for help at this time. Last week, my partner and best friend, Kyle Fraser, suffered from two strokes in a single day. There is a very long and expensive road ahead, and our friends have been gracious enough to help organize a GoFundMe for anyone who wishes to offer their support. On it, we have written up more detail on his condition for anyone curious. Even a repost or share helps. The link to that is in my bio, my story, highlights - pretty much anywhere. Thank you for your thoughts and support at this time. Apologies in advance if I take some time to reply, I’m taking it one day at a time.

For those who don’t know him, Kyle is probably the most compassionate person I’ve ever met. He is as gentle and brilliant as much as he is strong and funny. He loves his two cats Poly and Moog, and adopted them with the explicit intention of ‘which cats are you having a hard time adopting?’ Though he can be reserved and introverted, Kyle has a fierce passion for his career and will always offer a helping hand to anyone in need, often taking calls to mentor professionals beginning their career. I’ve become a better person through knowing and loving him.

Photo of Kyle and I early last year

My partner and best friend Kyle suffered from two strokes last week. We need your help.

gofund.me/e25c60dfb

Anything helps, a like, a share, a donation. thank you for your support during this difficult time ❤️

we're closing up shop on speaker applications on Sunday for Our Sonic Landscape. submit now if you'd like a shot at speaking. going to be a great day!
and if you don't, grab a ticket to come down and listen to the great talks!

(this is in Vancouver, BC on May 2nd)
oursoniclandscape.com

#gameaudio

If any Seattle folks are on the fence and wanna carpool I got three seats and toons for days!

Does anyone else get absolute, complete and utter panic when their interface stops working?

I'm talking about the direct to amygdala heart rate increasing terrified fear of ohmygerdimgunnadie.

If so, would a calmingly worded, comprehensive audio interface trouble shooting doc help?

#gameaudio

My favorite thing I learned about woodpeckers was that they have this crazy evolutionary tongue that literally wraps around their brain to keep it from concussing from pecks. So metal.

Up Skilling and De Skilling: Generative AI and the Art Generative AI is a pretty potent topic, and this short blurb of an article doesn’t even to begin to cover a small facet of the effects it’s…

This article was prompted by a thread in the Field Recording Slack. Thank you Matt Miller, and I hope it's interesting to y'all. medium.com/@megan_75518...

So this isn't what you asked for, but check out Little Bitz. It's a fantastic introduction to synthesizers. I can be plugged into something like audacity which is free, and one of the simpler daws out there.

Money and the Art: When the Muse is Absent One of the things I’m embarrassed about is, very occasionally, I just don’t wanna do the stuff I am so lucky to do, professionally for…

Short. Sweet. Musings about Money, Art, and the Muse.

Enjoy y'all. #gameaudio

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Why We Rest as Artists I’ve been running a fair bit recently, and finally managed to clear Week 7, Day 1. The last two weeks of Couch to 5K are kinda interesting…

Hiya folks. This weeks noodle is about why we rest as artists. Bit wiggy, hope you dig it.

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Chooo chooo! All aboard! Next stop sustainable living!

Wait can I join the Megan game audio train?

Hey folks! This week's noodle thought is about one's relationship with money and one's relationship with the Art and how those two relationships can be inversely related.

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When life sends you airplanes, point the mic at them. The latest idea for MURDER STUFFIE GORE my inner child wanted to record was the sound of children chewing on entrails.

Hey folks!

This week, I wrote about the relationship with mental flexibility and mastery of the art.

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picture of meal prep ingredients for an autumn theme advanced salad, chicken sausage, arugala, butternut squash, fresh mozzerella, and pepitos

To all y'all ready for the insanity, this salad is the next one!

Or honestly, that workflow you've been scared to try because you hate that derping novice feeling of scrabbling about with your pants on your head. But then - CLICK adding roasted potatoes to your salad is ok, and the salad police isn't coming for you and all of a sudden you LIKE SALAD AND WTAF.

It's about finally realizing a missing bit of your workflow to allow you to SCALE. Its realizing that your library NEEDS to be in Sound Miner, or that you have wasted TOO MANY OPPORTUNITIES not to master that plugin (gawddamnit Envy why aren't you a VST yet).

What does advanced salads have to do with being an intermediate sound designer?

5 components generally is all I need to make a fantastically complex interesting salad I can eat all week. Meal prep is then: One weeks batch of protein for the week. Make a batch of "grain" for the week. Check cold components stores are sufficient for week - and assemble each night via microwave.

Cold components are cruciferous vegetables (spinach, arugala, etc) or "actual vegetables" (cucumber, carrots, etc) or fruits (apples, oranges, etc) or dairy (cow or goat). Warm components are protein (chicken, beef, beans etc) and "grains" (barley, couscous, potatoes).

This allows salads as a valid thing to eat to persist in most seasons (autumn, winter and spring) since the last thing I want to do is eat something cold when it's cold out. Even in summer unless it is CRAZY hot out, I usually want a warm meal for dinner.

But we've gotten away from Advanced Salads, which is my latest of the healthy sustainable endeavors I've been noodling on, and the unifying principle here. Advanced Salad is the frame work of an idea that salad comes in two components - a cold component and a warm component.

how ready your systems are when dev says it's greenlit to go, if you jam it in there for the first time, that is the first day you got to REALLY design. When rubber has actually hit the road and you are trying to break the sound barrier before the deadline to a build being cut is up.

If you only get one iteration cycle at the very end in the last hours of the milestone, every sound designer knows you aren't going to be at your best work, because no matter how many videos you watch to add your stuff to sync, how much source is ready when animators have finally stopped fiddling-

Intermediate to advanced game devs know: the game of production is often about scale and speed of which a contributer can complete an interation cycle. So for sound design, how fast can you get a "first pass" in.

That was until I moved to China for a year and discovered the secret to making vegetables taste great: drenching them in oil and spices. Unfortunately, my precious regional Chinese cuisine cooked veggie recipes are usually best only for a day as leftovers. They don't "scale" into a weekly mealprep.

When I grew up, salad was lettuce, tomato and ranch dressing.

I have heard worse stories from other people, but I still attribute this stringent lack of creativity to one of the key reasons why I have a mixed love-disgust relationship with vegetables.

salad from pagliacci in a pizza box

Advanced Salads - A Metaphor for Tackling Intermediate Level Professional Problems; a thread
#sounddesign #gamedev