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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for writing this. 🙏🎼🎶 The feelings you describe are familiar and you are not alone. It seems every which way we turn these days something bad is happening.

I am so glad you're in a place where you can be selective about projects and be creative with less chronic pressure from all of it.🎹

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 4d

Blog Roundup (November 2, 2025)

I haven’t done one of these in a while! I really need to do non-roundup posts but I like pointing people to other websites that I like since it maybe makes the internet feel a tiny bit less small? Anyway, if you see something you like, consider adding the site to your RSS feed reader. […]

virtualmoose.org

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

What's your favorite scary ~movie~ Game OST?

The Diablo 1 album creeped me out as a kid and still gets me years later.👺👹🐐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKl...

Stay awhile and listen🕯️
🎃👻🦇Halloween is Today!🦇👻🎃
#Halloween #gameaudio

Diablo + Hellfire [COMPLETE OST ~ HIGH QUALITY]

YouTube video by Soundtrack Games

www.youtube.com

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

I built mine with a Ryzen a year or two ago. It wasn't bad, but it was the highest pressure part of the build by far. All I can say is watch the videos, align the arrow and notches, and go for it! You got this, hope you share the build once it's up and running!

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

Deacon Frost, from Blade I, sitting in a corner listening to electronica and likely brooding over ancient vampire glyphs.

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

Two months later, and it's still going strong. It came across my feed just in time for Halloween! Was this all a clever plot from the beginning?!>🎃👻🧛🧛‍♀️🧛‍♂️⚰️🦇

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

🔥 You've got the best textures around FD.

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

The GPU crunch is worse than the CPU crunch but not nearly as tense.

Have fun, you're embarking on the most fun Lego-tinkertoy build that exists!
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Make sure your PSU is correct side down, cable manage as you go, careful with the GPU support brace, double check your plan for airflow.

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 6d

In good Halloween form, our likeness, data, & employment history is going deeper into the maw of big data..not that it hasn't been there for awhile.🤷

Wish I could opt out of LinkedIn. But Imo it's worth un-checking a box so that they minimize the use of your data.

www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 7d

Omg that's amazing

John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 7d

Sounds spookily lovely, lol. Hope the countryside is relaxing and mysterious all at the same time. 🌫️🌲🏡🌫️

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 7d

Ah man, I never gave PoE a real try. I'm replaying D2 remastered now and welp no question about it, I've gotta try PoE next!

John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow is Halloween!

Don't let the title fool you, the Chapel of Skorm, from Fable is some top tier creepy music for the season.

youtu.be/9_9_HxGl844?...

#halloween #gameaudio

Fable 1, 2 and 3's Most Peaceful and Calm Songs (Albions Greatest Hit's)

YouTube video by Loopy Longplays

youtu.be

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 8d

Halloween is 2 days away, and it's a perfect time to throw on the D2 OST.👹🎃🦇🔊📈

I began D2 at the end of the era of SOJ currency and ended sometime after the Rust Storm when Anni Charms were being circulated. youtu.be/0nflBqFCtFs?...

Any zons or cold sorcs in the crowd?🏹❄
#gameaudio #halloween

Diablo 2 Resurrected Soundtrack / OST (final)

YouTube video by Salim Müller

youtu.be

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 9d

And then Halloween was merely 3 days away.

👻The 1977 Suspira ost by the Italian band Goblin is ridiculously good. It's creepy af to start, turns into the jammiest of groovy jams later on, and ends creepy. Definitely worth a spooky season listen.👺👻😱

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Icj...

#Halloween

Suspiria - Soundtrack - Full Album (1977)

YouTube video by mytangoinparis

www.youtube.com

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 10d

T’was 4 days til' Halloween!
🎃👑Pop this one on👻🍂 through and through, it's a solid revisit. One of the best Halloweeny soundtracks of all time. 👑🎃

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Muz...

#halloween

The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack

YouTube video by BEST SOUNDTRACKS

www.youtube.com

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 11d

#Rip 🪦🔊👻👻 sounds quite frustrating.

Fixed a delay in a speaker for an outdoor event /w voicemeeter on 🪟. 10min before showtime, a gremlin (human variety) tweaked 🪟 audio settings and broke the sync forever tangling the drivers.

Everything worked out, but some say the laptop is haunted to this day.

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Jonathan Shaw @jonshawsound.bsky.social · 13d

Graduate Audio Designer role at Frontier! Come work with our linear design team, they're incredible 🔊

Frontier Developments - Graduate Audio Designer (Creative Services)

WHAT’S THE ROLE? We’re looking for a Graduate Audio Designer to join our Creative Services Audio team. The Creative Services team provides support for publishing, community and studio facing content s...

jobs.eu.lever.co

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 15d

I'm in a similar boat. My seasonal double crunch just ended for a next fest demo and (offline) autumn festival.

Do you have any tricks for falling (or staying) asleep after insane workworkwork days? My mind will just keep going.

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 15d

KISS your design. Build with simple well formed blocks, test by subtraction.

Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.

Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team. 📣📋

(keep it stupid simple)

Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 16d

What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 15d

KISS your design. Build with simple well formed blocks, test by subtraction.

Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.

Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team.

(keep it stupid simple)

John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 17d

preach it🔥.

In the sound field, we make audio for an audience that listens on earbuds, gamer headphones, studio monitors, 5.1 setups, TVs, laptops. Multi mixing helps, but it is critically important to listen and assess work on different speakers throughout the creative process.

Nick Duguid @tumerboy.bsky.social · 17d

God, this. I remember when our Art Director went on a campaign to calibrate every monitor in the building, so we were all seeing the same colors.

Tilting at windmills, man.

Way better to just check your work on a variety of devices.

Crimson 💀 (spooky) @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 17d

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

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Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer @audiogre.bsky.social · 19d

Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at #GameSoundCon this year about the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei. I'm really excited about this talk and am so proud of these systems that the team built.
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...

Ghost of Yōtei talk at GameSoundCon 2025

Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at GameSoundCon this year about some of the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei

bradleymeyer.com

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John Stolzle @ambientartstyles.bsky.social · 22d

One of my favorites of all time. It really changed my perspective on things and helped me live more in the moment. 🗿🦢🧭📜🗿📆

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LIGHT ODYSSEY @teamssun.bsky.social · 24d

The Light Odyssey demo is OUT NOW!

📅 October 13-20
🌌 Steam: bit.ly/40Kd69J

It will be up for a week so come try it out! Start your odyssey, face the first three colossi, and tell us your thoughts! 😊

#SteamNextFest #IndieGame #GameDev #LightOdyssey

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