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Game Audio Boston @gameaudioboston.bsky.social · 15h

Join us for a virtual career and networking focused chat on the GAB Discord with video game and media composer Star Victoria Power aka. @slide20xx.com on 10/21! We’ll be tackling topics like advancing your career, work-life balance and staying in it for the long haul.
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Game Audio Boston with Star Victoria Power (Composer), Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

With GameSoundCon right around the corner, it couldn’t be a better time to join us for a career and networking focused chat with video game and media composer Star Victoria

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t wait to check this out! 😍

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 3d

Sweet! Congrats on the launch! The trailer alone already sounds super crisp 👏👏

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 4d

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Ghost of Yōtei Soundtrack Listening Party streams live on Oct 15

Explore the score: Join the creators of Ghost of Yōtei for an exclusive behind‑the‑scenes look at the soundtrack.

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Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · 7d

To celebrate the first weekend of #GhostofYotei, we had a little fun dressing up our wolf (Sorry, masks in Ezo are for humans only!) 🐺

Send us your best wolf pictures this weekend and we'll repost our favorites 👀

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Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer @audiogre.bsky.social · 8d

#GhostOfYotei is out and I can't be more proud of our audio team across sound design, music, dialogue and cinematics. So much love & detail has been poured into the sonic world we've built. I'll start sharing anecdotes and videos once I finish celebrating and recovering from celebrating 🥳 #GameAudio

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 8d

The day has come, Ghost of Yōtei is out in the world 🥹
It’s been an absolute honor being able to contribute to its soundscape alongside @audiogre.bsky.social, @chrissoundsrad.com, Josh Lord, @greydavenport.bsky.social, Jessie Chang, and everyone at PlayStation Studios and beyond 💛

AUDIO
REV. DR. BRADLEY D MEYER
CHRISTOPHER BOLTE
JESSIE CHANG
GREY DAVENPORT
JOSH LORD
CHRIS WALASEK
ANDREW BURESH
SONIA CORONADO
ADAM LIDBETTER
DEDRICK SARZABA

ADDITIONAL RUDIO
JASPER CORCORAN
ERIK BUENSUCESO
SAFAR BAKE
PETER HANSON
PETE REED
BENJAMIN GEDRON-SMITH
RORY GIVEN
KEVIN MCCLELLAND
RYAN SCHAAD
TED KOCHER
MONTY MUDD
SCOTT SHOEMAKER
KELVIN YUEN
JERIC CHAPMAN
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON

A view of Mt Yotei from a cliff edge on the opposite side of a grassy valley nestle in morning fog.

A black and white screenshot of an ancient Japanese graveyard during a cloudy day with an imposing Mt. Yotei towering in the background

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks so much for the love! Hoping we’ll get to hang out again next year and all the best for you & your team! 👾

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 11d

Fair, the nice thing about Soundly though is that you can cancel it at any time and you can keep using any assets you downloaded prior to canceling in your projects so it can definitely help cut down on costs. All their library assets are also created in-house with recordists from around the world.

Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 12d

Another option would be a sound library subscription. For $14.99/month you get access to a HUGE library something like 300k+ recordings) with Soundly Pro which also contains a bunch of good source material for weapons.
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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 12d

The best starting point with realistic weapons will always be high quality source material from the real thing, and there’s no better place to get it than at Aftertouch Audio IMO.
Sure, they’re not necessarily cheap but recording the real thing costs a lot more
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Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer @audiogre.bsky.social · 14d

thanks for doing my job for me @lorderk.bsky.social. 😀 Also our soundtrack IS pretty darn special IMHO. LOTS of ear worms in Toma's work.

Eric Jensen @lorderk.bsky.social · 14d

Ghost of Yōtei soundtrack is now available to stream or buy on all major platforms! It's so so good. Tomo Otowa is brilliant, and our music teams produced the heck out of it. Enjoy!

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 13d

Please tell me you got a photo with that giant chocobo in costume

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Game Audio Boston @gameaudioboston.bsky.social · 13d

Tune into our virtual meetup on Tuesday, September 30th at 7PM on the GAB Discord for a chat with sound designer @sabrinafedeleaudio.bsky.social about all things game audio, #indiedev, field recording, working in film, and more!

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Game Audio Boston with Sabrina Fedele (Sound Designer), Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for an interview with sound designer **Sabrina Fedele**! Sabrina has worked on games like Airborne Empire, Lichgate, and Letterhead and has spoken at venues such as

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 13d

Seeing @erikaishii.bsky.social as real-life Atsu onstage at TGS is definitely a highlight of my year 😻⚔️
#tokyogameshow #ghostofyotei

Erika Ishii, the actor portraying the character Atsu in Ghost of Yōtei taking the stage at Tokyo Game Show in a faithful recreation of their in game outfit.

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 14d

blog.playstation.com/2025/09/26/f...

First in-depth look at Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair x PlayStation collaboration, launching this October

Featuring characters from The Last of Us, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, and more.

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 15d

Best practice among sound designers is keeping most things mono unless it’s an ambience bed or a sound effect either not being spatialized or representing some huge sonic event like an explosion or giant creature footsteps.

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 15d

A whopping 6 minutes of Digital Foundry's amazing Ghost of Yōtei review is dedicated to audio. This absolutely made my day 🥹

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Ghost of Yōtei - DF Review - PS5/PS5 Pro - A Triumphant Sequel... With Ray Tracing! - 4K HDR Video

YouTube video by Digital Foundry

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 16d

松平健の『Ghost of Yōtei』お手並み拝見

YouTube video by PlayStation Japan

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · 23d

Data storage used to be so much more badass.
#vintagesony

A vintage Sony instrumentation reel to reel tape deck used to store 8 tracks of data as FM-modulated signals.

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Isn’t this world absolutely stunning? 😻
Relax with 10 minutes of gorgeous vistas straight from #GhostOfYotei

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Ghost of Yōtei - Journey Through The Edge Of Japan Video | PS5 Games

YouTube video by PlayStation

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Playing Death Stranding 1&2 back to back was an absolutely wild and incredible ride and this cameo is obviously the cherry on top 🥲🥲
#GhostOfYotei #kojimaproductions

Sam Porter Bridges in front of a blurry, snowy landscape, wearing Atsu’s white kintsugi mask from Ghost of Yōtei.

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · Sep 7

At least for Crestron you can start with C# in Unity and then learn whatever proprietary nonsense they use in Simpl Sharp when you actually need it

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you’re going to #gamesoundcon this year you do not want to miss Josh Lord & @audiogre.bsky.social’s talk about some of the amazing tools and systems that helped our audio team bring the immersive soundscape in #GhostOfYotei to life ⚔️
#gameaudio #sounddesign #gamedev

Wednesday, October 29th
Advanced Systems Design in Ghost of Yötei
Sound Design & Technology
© 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
• Academy 3
Description
This talk will highlight some of the key ways the audio team at Sucker Punch strove to push the soundscape of Ghost of Yötei through calculated tool development and systems design. Using Ghost of Tsushima as a jumping off point, we will describe the ways we improved on our existing systems and how we focused our work on doing more with less. We will highlight some of the core systems that were drastically overhauled and improved for this sequel, and do a mini-deep dive into each system, giving audience members a glimpse into our workflow, and ideas to improve their own systems.
We will pinpoint how these new systems improvements came to be, why we chose them for scrutiny, and how we overhauled them to create simpler systems that sounded better, and were easier to implement, than the previous game. Systems explored will include: situational ambience, foley, combat, and waterways. The talk will also explore how the evolution of systems propagated further and further out as the project progressed. What started as one change in one system, spidered out to add functionality across other areas of the game.
Takeaway: Audience members should come away from this talk with an understanding of how the Sucker Punch audio team crafted the soundscape of Ghost of Yotei, and have some inspirational ideas for how to roll some of these concepts into their own workflows.
Speakers
• Rev. Dr. Bradley_D Meyer, Sucker Punch Productions, Audio Director
• Josh Lord, Sucker Punch Productions - Playstation, Senior Staff

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Chris BØLT @bolttracks.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm super excited to announce that I'll be making my first foray into sound design for theater working on Aeneas Sagar Hemphill's play "Ada" for Babson Arts' faculty-led Empty Space Theater! This dystopian futurist play will premier October 23rd at the Sorenson Center for the Arts at Babson.

Ada Premiering October 24th

I'm super excited to announce that I'll be making my first foray into sound design for theater working on Aeneas Sagar Hemphill's play "Ada" for Babson Arts' faculty-led Empty Space Theater! This dystopian futurist play will premier October 23rd with three performances held at the Sorenson Center of the Arts right on the Babson campus.\n\nIn a not-so-distant future, Ada, a worker of artificial intelligence, disrupts her workplace’s carefully maintained power dynamics by becoming a little too human to contain.

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