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Ashley Wills

@ashleywills.co.uk

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🎮 freelance game sound designer & technical implementation 🔊 🎤 working on Ascend and X-Gravity 👾 🐦 making a pigeon tamagotchi like game 🕹️ 🌈 they/them 💜 🎧 www.ashleywills.co.uk 🖥️

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Nov 14

Hey all! A little introduction post:

I’m a freelancer based in the UK working in game audio, before that I was freelancing in film & TV for 6 years.

Favourite game is Apex Legends

Pronouns are they/them

Hoping to connect with other game devs and audio people ☺️

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Emma Kidwell | Looking for work ✨ @emmakidwell.bsky.social · 3d

hideo kojima ass bread

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 3d

This is fricking cool! I gotta make myself one of these…..

Steve Simpson @demonhousedesign.bsky.social · 5d

My lil box of horror!

#gameaudio #sounddesign #ambient

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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 8d

UK workers at Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM have unionised - the first recognised video game union in the UK.

(Read more: GamesIndustry)

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Steve Simpson @demonhousedesign.bsky.social · 9d

Not long now until our next #gameaudio Liverpool meet up, join us at COMMUNE, Constance Street on the 12th October. Find out more here…..
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-audio...

#liverpoolnetworking
#sounddesigner
#audiodesigner
#gamedev
#postaudio
#audio
#gameaudioliverpool

Game Audio Liverpool -October Edition 2025

A spooky social for Game and Post Audio folk, everyone welcome !

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 9d

We’ve released Ascend! Thank you to everyone at @miamiavalon.bsky.social for having me on this project 💜

store.steampowered.com/app/1944260/...

Save 10% on Ascend on Steam

Solve ancient puzzles, collect tarot cards, and complete the zodiac trials to climb the mountain and save your people in Ascend, a 3D puzzle adventure. Shift between Day, Twilight, and Dusk with your ...

store.steampowered.com

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 13d

People aren’t starting with the dialogue edit first and building the soundscape around that? Dialogue has been dethroned

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 20d

Yeah I’m up for chatting and sharing what I know. I’ll DM you

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 20d

Hey hey, I make sound effects for games and also do audio implementation. Currently wrapping up on a game where I’ve used FMOD and UE5

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 24d

Thinking AI can eliminate all crime is fundamentally misunderstanding what causes crime and what it is.

But yeah I guess saying that will make the shareholders giddy with excitement and increase the share price

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · 28d

UK media frothing at the mouth to use anything to be transphobic

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 10

Maybe it’s the nostalgia, maybe it’s the longing of a simpler time; A device that just plays music. Doesn’t track me, show me ads, sell my data, notification pop ups, endless scrolling…

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 10

Taking up DJing I’ve missed having an actual music collection.

I’ve missed curating music, instead I’ve left it up to whatever the algorithm suggests.
Such a detachment from music and the artists, consume this content and be done with it, move onto the next thing

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 10

The old battery (top), was inflated a fair bit… no way I’m charging that! (Not that I can find the charger anyway)

Replaced the battery and the hard drive still works?? All my music still on there and Rockbox already installed.

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 10

In order to reconnect with music and get away from crappy streaming services (that love AI and fund a military company), I’ve dug out my old iPod

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 7

Love the pink netted top! 💖

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 6

Watch out, they’re gonna steal your chips!!

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Sep 5

Congrats to you both! 💜

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Luna ✨ | Wishlist X-GRAVITY on Steam 👽🛹 @luna97x.bsky.social · Sep 3

I created a quick guide on how to create custom nodes for PCG using Blueprints and C++

I hope this helps someone out there, as I was struggling to find the resources myself!

blueshift-interactive.com/2025/09/03/h...

#unrealengine #pcg #gamedev #indiedev

How to Create Custom PCG Nodes in Unreal Engine

Introduction to creating custom nodes in Unreal Engine's PCG framework using Blueprints and C++

blueshift-interactive.com

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jaida @anarchyasf.com · Sep 1

how the hell is it september already

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 25

I held a chicken the other day and last night I had a dream looking after a chicken.

I will become a chicken chaser 🐓

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 18

Congrats! Well deserved to be on the cover!

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 18

This is wild! Why even play the game just get an LLM to play it for you while you do something else 😂

Also it feels like an extra work to ask an LLM how to play a game, why not play the game and let the game teach you??

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 15

Thank you so much! 💜

Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 15

👀

youtu.be/80ydXS-EOSU?...

X-GRAVITY - Official Reveal Trailer | Gravity-Defying Open-World Skater

YouTube video by Blueshift Interactive

youtu.be

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Ashley Wills @ashleywills.co.uk · Aug 15

Thank you so much! 💜