Great to see Dispatch win this year’s Audio Achievement BAFTA. Really excellent sounding game. That team did an amazing job 👏

America I love you but your president is severely mentally ill

Air drumming during a work conversation about a music project. Something in my back went ping, months of pain and physio ensued.

News just in…

Sigh…

I’ll be at Develop Brighton on 10th July talking about how we made the audio for LEGO Horizon Adventures with some brilliant colleagues from Studio Gobo and Sony Creative Arts. Come along! @developconference.com #gameaudio

A rough and ready sourdough loaf cooling on a rack

Baking, as I often do on a Sunday, can’t wait to dig into this & soup & cheese!
Also prompted me to donate again to a fav charity - Good Bread is a Kyiv bakery that employs people with disabilities and distributes bread to people in desperate need in the frontline cities.

goodbread.com.ua/en-us

On the other hand “a bit crap” is a massive improvement over what we’ve had in recent years…

4 BAFTA nominations and Best UK Console Game at the UKIE awards - not a bad week for LEGO Horizon Adventures!

Been enjoying playing Humanity today but the dog barks when you place commands were breaking my dog’s brain so we had to stop and go for a walk.
Hope I’m able to continue at some point because it’s excellent!

There’s something quite charming about the idea of an application being simple enough that all its features are visible.
Anyway, back to my Reaper scripting project…

Not sure you can really call him (my MP, unfortunately) a moderate. One of the last in the bunker with Boris, then team Truss. He seems more of a “go along with whatever seems career-advancing at the moment” kind of guy.
What he wrote is a total disgrace of course, but in-character.

‘Dune: Part Two’ and ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Lead MPSE Golden Reel Awards Feature Nominations 'Alien: Romulus,' 'A Complete Unknown,' 'Emilia Pérez' and 'Wicked' follow close behind in the Motion Picture Sound Editors feature categories.

Ooh, we got a Golden Reel nomination for LEGO Horizon Adventures - Outstanding Achievement In Sound Editing - Game Effects / Foley
Well done to all the talented and lovely people involved!

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I suppose there are some plugins that do things very specific to music production with not many obvious applications in sound design - maybe something like Vocal Rider or mastering plugins.
Probably harder to think of examples in the other direction?
And everything can be abused creatively so… 🤷‍♂️

Timelines Molly Walsh · Single · 2024 · 2 songs

My daughter released her first couple of songs on Spotify today, which makes me feel:

a) proud
b) old

open.spotify.com/album/0FsLT1...

Defining / adjudicating that is not straightforward…

So true. Not right for every situation but having a bit of game capture or a build running live that you can drop in to hear a bit of relevant audio context behind what you’re working on can help with this. At least for a quick impression of what pops or disappears.

LEGO Horizon Adventures made it into Time’s top 10 games of the year, nice!

True and related to this other issue for the adulting-afflicted gamer: gaps between plays of a given game too big to remember the combos and nuances of control required to be any good.

HumanScale Diffrient - no knobs and levers, its thing is self balancing to how you sit which seems to work, very happy with it!

When my eldest daughter was a baby I recorded her playing with toys for a creepy nursery kinda thing. Our cat walked past her and she said “cat!” - her first word.

Similarly, my Spotify algorithm when I’m doing music reference gathering….

Doing some experiments with granular manipulation of items in #ReaScript - slicing things up and moving them around, potentially large numbers of small slices. Wondering how many is too many when iterating over items, takes etc…

Kneecap movie is great and who cares which bits are true and which bits aren’t - it’s funny, it has heart and the beats slap

How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia In Lewis Packwood’s book Curious Video Game Machines, Voja Antonić explains how he built a console and published instructions for anyone to make their own

Ramshackle technology with a niche politics/history back-story, what’s not to love www.theguardian.com/games/2024/o...

LEGO® Horizon Adventures™ - PS5 and PC Game | PlayStation Join machine hunter Aloy and dive into boundless adventure with a colourful crew of LEGO Horizon heroes!

What I’ve been up to for the last couple of years:

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Oh an influx of #gameaudio people - I guess some new gross Musky thing happened…
Anyway, welcome, should probably try to get round to posting every now and then…

Unless you’re living in the EU, all @LinkedIn users have been automatically opted into the platform’s shitty new program to use your data to train its shitty AI tool.

Opt out steps: Settings and Privacy > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement (OFF)

Don’t knock Reaper til you’ve forced yourself to use it and grudgingly realised it’s the best despite also being the ugliest

As a rugby playing 80s kid I read JPR’s book, was a fan. I had an injury and my stepdad wrote me a fake letter from him as a poorly judged joke, then felt guilty, contacted him and he wrote me a real letter. RIP.