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Ben Wolland

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Technical Audio Designer @ FuturLab and Freelance Sound Designer https://linktr.ee/benwollandsound Ex TT games and ex CIG. #gameaudio 🧱lego games franchise 2012-2024 🔫suicide squad kill the justice league - 2023 👨‍🚀star citizen - 2024

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Dec 9

Happy #Monday everyone. Just a message to let you know that I've created a web site to promote my services as a #sounddesigner.

www.benwollandsounddesign.com

Feel free to pass it around to anyone you know is in need of #sounddesign TIA for your support

#gameaudio #gamedev #indiedev

Ben Wolland Sound Design

Ben Wolland Sound Design offers full audio solutions to video game developers all over the world. With over 12 years of development experience, your project is safe with me.

www.benwollandsounddesign.com

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 8d

I am so, so inspired by the workers at ZA/UM who unionized. This is such a fantastic step for @gameworkers.co.uk in the UK. Our first recognized union!

www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

After layoffs, cancellations, and controversy, ZA/UM UK staff unionise as the Workers' Alliance

"We like being here. We want to continue being here. So let's try and get a seat at the table in the big management meetings."

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 9d

FFS. How could they be coming up with even worse policies? This is the bottom now right? Right!?

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 9d

I would argue the games industry is pretty disrupted right now without AI. I'm not sure AI gets us the same sort of disruption that 3D brought to games (which was an exciting one to me anyway). What sort of disruption do you think would be for the better?

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 9d

That EA buyout based on using AI to bring down costs could well be an even bigger catastrophe than I'd assumed.

Peter Hansen @pitecohansen.bsky.social · 9d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 20d

Behold!
Curse of Cards has a minimap now.

It's inspired by Metroid Prime's lovely little isometric display (with an added bit of perspective so you don't randomly go cross-eyed while staring at it).

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 29d

#tonight #gameaudio #manchester #audiodrinks

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Sep 8

This Thursday is the bi-monthly Manchester audio drinks. Hope some of you can make it.

#gameaudio
#audio
#postaudio
#networking
#manchester

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Manchester Audio Drinks

A social for Manchester audio workers and aspiring audio workers in games and post.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Sep 8

This Thursday is the bi-monthly Manchester audio drinks. Hope some of you can make it.

#gameaudio
#audio
#postaudio
#networking
#manchester

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Manchester Audio Drinks

A social for Manchester audio workers and aspiring audio workers in games and post.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm trying free movement instead of grid-based for Curse of Cards.
Whaddya reckon?

Pros: Better interaction with water and foliage; less disorientating; rooms can be any shape.

Cons: You lose the vibe.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · Aug 30

Time and space are inextricably linked in Curse of Cards' Amber Archives...
Here's some exploration and card match gameplay.

Also, also, have some early music from Ben Wolland, the game's composer!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 15

Thanks @joakimenigksjoberg.bsky.social this was interesting. I'm yet to play split fiction but my wife and i have enjoyed it takes two a lot. Great sounding game.

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 8

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

Alt: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

media.tenor.com

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Rus McLaughlin @rusmclaughlin.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's rare I see a Music Composer job opening, and I believe I know a fair few of those.

#gamejobs

www.twine.net/projects/b8w...

Soul Story freelance job | Twine

Robbie is looking for a Music Composer: Soul Story

www.twine.net

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 6

yeah, my kids like to watch something called om sum (probably not how it's spelt, its how it's said) which i've decided to block because it's just Ai garbage (i think) as it's basically a format that recursively repeats in an endless loop. It's awful to listen to. But it doesn't seem to bother them.

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 6

my 6 year old is playing #untitledgoosegame on her own for the first time. She just asked me for a pad and paper so she can write the list down so she doesn't have to use "that button" to see the list. Been playing games for 5 seconds and she's already trying to optimize her playthroughs...

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 3

a little semi circle window thing. This is open and she crawled her way to freedom from there. Partially proud, partially annoyed she's still up and eating into our precious post bedtime freedom i zip the window shut and tie the two zips together. She can't untie knots yet... so we're ok...

a close up of a person 's face with a hand reaching out

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with a hand reaching out

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 3

out of the front door of the tent grinning from ear to ear. We go inside to inspect how she did, find part of the inner tent that forms her room has collapsed. The zip for the door is exactly where it should be. How did she get out? It's the only door. Going inside we find that the inner tent has

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 3

for her to get to. First night, some alien baby in tummy moments, but she relents and goes to sleep only an hour after bed time. Night two we do the same and then our eldest says "Esme is out of her room". We assume this can't be true and while asking "did you zip it up properly?" she appears

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 3

2 year olds, maybe should be used an elite QA testers? Or i'm just a tired dad.
So we've been camping this week in North Wales. It's our youngest first camping holiday. The only way she sleeps if she believes there is no way out of her sleeping room in the tent. So we zip it so the zips are too high

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Aug 1

Nice. I do like form although I don't often reach for it. This definitely inspired me to have a little play with it on the next thing I'm working on.

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Giovane Webster @giovanewebster.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just finished a quickdesign exercise using synth layers in this visuals of a Esoteric Device VFX by Lefi S using UE5 Niagara. FORM + Prism in NI Reaktor were key tools for the sound here, specially the “Tetris” moment 🎧 Fun little experiment!
Visuals: artstation.com/leficious
#GameAudio #SoundDesign

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.

Not anymore.

My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn

More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

www.theguardian.com

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Jul 22

Agreed. tbf i think Nintendo are pretty close to doing this. At least my only experience working as a first party dev for them was that they had a high bar when it came to bugs. I'm not really a nintendo gamer, so perhaps i miss the complaints. But i don't hear people complain about bugs with them.

Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Jul 21

the ground if they had their wish. The C-Suites have their belief that enormous marketing budgets reap the biggest rewards and marketing want their campaigns to hit date X. Who do you think wins in an argument between people who sell people ideas for living and people who make games?

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Jul 21

I know. When it comes to AAA marketing budgets are probably as big as development budgets. AAA companies are run with different mindsets in each department. The devs want to make a great game with no bugs. The people making decisions want a smash hit and are sure the devs would run the company into

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · Jul 21

They probably had the bug reports. Especially if they pushed a lot of fixes for day 1 patch. It's always a question of marketing strategy with big releases. Delaying AC doesn't mean they fixed the pipeline issue. Only when it's released you can see that. So the article is perhaps overly optimistic.

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