Huge day today! My team launched our game, Warped Universe, into Early Access after years of building together. Pretty surreal experience to be here after everything. Steam placed us on the Popular Upcoming list on their front page and got us in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and Epic Games Store has us next to Lego Batman and other big names in Trending. Not bad for a small remote indie team with no publisher. Really proud to be here in this moment. Still a lot of work to do as we are in Early Access, but we launched a game and people showed up and are having fun. So thankful to be working with such cool people on this.
If you want to give it a try, feel free to download on Steam. It’s free to play. And also, reviews help us so much. The more reviews we get, the more people see us. 🙏
Hit up Indian Wells Open with @chantalikesanta this weekend. Had a great time, but honestly, it was just really fun watching her experience pure joy there and be fully immersed in it. Frozen beer foam is also my new favorite thing.
Wet, rumbly sci fi bass for futuristic weapons, spaceships, lava and other big gooey deep sounds. All created from a simple percussive sound and Ableton stock plugins. After years of using every plugin imaginable, I’ve been digging into the stock plugins so much lately and it’s so helpful for sound design and quick results to throw into the game.
Along with my mastering business, I have been recently working a lot on sound design and music for the game, Warped Universe. We’re a small team following a dream of making a game from scratch, bootstrapped and no publisher. The game is going into Early Access soon and I’m going to be posting more about the sound design process of it to help with the push (as well as other studio stuff like my day to day mastering).
Anyways, wishlist Warped Universe, and enjoy me geeking out here.
#sounddesign #gameaudio #audioengineer #sounddesigner #ableton
Making alien chittering sounds for game sound design. I recorded myself peeling and eating an orange up close to the mic, eating some curry, playing with a plastic straw wrapper from a juice box and drinking the juice. Then I cut it all up into different tracks, pitch shifted, filtered, eq, distorted, messed with Ableton’s warp settings and automated grain size and flux and warp modes, and now I’m exporting each little piece to assemble into sound cues in Unreal Engine to make an alien language. This is just a few seconds of it but I have endless variations of randomness for full immersion 🤘👽
Really enjoying @minimal.audio Rift and Morph EQ for this type of work. They’re sound design beasts. Wishlist Warped Universe on Steam if you play games. All sound design and music by me and the game is getting real fun.
#sounddesigner #gamedev #gameaudio #audioengineer #warpeduniverse
Shots from the weekend. Spend every minute you can with your kids. Teach them life skills, empathy for others, to always stick up for those more vulnerable, but also to have fun.
The younger generation is looking up at us and they’re very observant and a hell of a lot smarter than we think. Learn history together, and be on the right side of it together as well.
Late night sound design in Unreal Engine 5 with the help of Ableton Live. Tonight I added a lot of ghostly echoing ambience, wind, and little critter sounds throughout this map in Warped Universe to set the mood. I’ve really been enjoying game sound design this last year, whether it’s environment, character sounds, or music. It’s a completely different way of thinking with 3D placement and distances when compared to linear sequencing in music production. #gamedev #unrealengine #sounddesign
A brave Mandalorian set out across North Portland tonight on a sacred mission to secure candy, only to meet some unlikely creatures along the way…
Shout out to Kenton for being the best neighborhood to live in. The people here rule. And thanks to @kentonbusinesspdx and all the small businesses and storefronts for making these events happen.
#portland #mandalorian #kenton #nopo #pdx
Happy bday to my best friend and partner in life! You make me want to be a better person everyday. We’ve been together and best friends for more than half our lives and you still manage to make me laugh every day. You’re always right about everything and it drives me crazy, but I love it. You’re my compass in life and an amazing mom to our 2 beautiful kids you’ve brought into this world. We love you!
For close to 20 years, like many in the audio industry, I was working a day job and doing audio at night. I had the dream of quitting my day job and doing audio full time, and I finally did it after all those years. But COVID had other plans, and doing audio alone in that time period became unstable. I decided to expand into other areas, and I met a group of game industry vets and we really clicked.
We worked on some other projects together but really wanted to do our own thing. We brainstormed nonstop and 2 years ago we formed @warped_gamers . Back then it was an idea, but we put everything we had into this idea, and 2 years later we are now at @gamescom , on the floor, with a really fun and unique game we’ve put our heart into. I’ve learned so much over these last few years and met some of the smartest and coolest people doing this. Life is crazy..
Yesterday was industry passes only and we had hundreds of folks stop by and check our game out. Today is first day it opens to the public. 300k+ attendance at the world’s largest games conference. Many stopping by our little corner here and playing our game, Warped Universe :)
