Matt J Hart

Shaw!

Here's a little modular synth rendition of the theme from #Silksong, composed by Christopher Larkin 🎶

Working on some gloopy whoosh sounds 🔊

I haven't googled anything related to it for several months. The most recent relevant thing I can think of is that I bought a rubber mat from Amazon (not Temu) several months ago. Yikes 🙃

Spooky event from today:

I'm editing footsteps, and I mentioned in conversation that I needed to differentiate the names of "rubber flooring" and "rubber bath mat"

Then I exported the files

Then I visited YouTube, and there was a Temu ad beside the video for a rubber floor mat 🤔

One of the more painful moments of my life

A couple of things I'd be interested to know more about:

-What forms of payment are most suitable (eg flat fee, hourly, rev share, etc)?

-Is "crunch" inevitable in game dev, or are there any effective ways to avoid it?

Maybe some kind of issue with converting from MP3 to WAV? The glitchy sound is definitely visible in the waveform, so it seems like it's within the audio file itself. That wouldn't explain it being inconsistent though 🤔

The other "bons" look fine, so you might be able to fix by using one of those

Just beat Hollow Knight after finishing act 2 of Silksong. It really makes Hollow Knight feel so easy! And the runbacks are wayyy more bearable

Messing around in VCV rack 🎶

Here's a modular synth version of part of "Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus" by Mars Volta

#vcvrack

A screenshot of a google AI overview for the search "silksong hide ui", riddled with errors as described

Got an impressively awful AI overview today.

In just two short paragraphs I have learned that:
-Silksong isn't released yet
-The first Hollow Knight game both did and didn't have the ability to hide the HUD
-A video about Second Life is somehow relevant to this

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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MEMOREUM on Meta Quest **MEMOREUM** is a VR sci-fi action horror campaign. The Ichor Infection has taken over the last ship of humanity. You are Dr. Otto Hudson, fighting to unravel the mystery behind the outbreak as your f...

Next Thursday is a big day for me - MEMOREUM will arrive on Quest 2/3!

I've been working on the game as its lead sound designer since 2023. Excited for people to see what we've been cooking up!

www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

Screenshot from Silksong credits reading "A GAME BY TEAM CHERRY"

Screenshot from Silksong credits: "GAME COMPLETION, TIME: 33h 01m 39s"

Woohooo

Capturing some electromagnetic field recordings today, using a £5 pickup coil 🎤⚡

#sounddesign #audiorecording

Just released my collection of designed explosion sounds 💣

Made from a variety of sources such as rocks, thunder, garbage, etc!

www.soundarmoury.co.uk/danger-explo...

Just finished adding markers to all of our game's dialogue lines for syncing with subtitles. Took me 30 hours 💀

I now have a lot of respect for anyone who has had to work with subtitles before

I think I attempted a boss about 40 times today. Thankfully I won eventually, but I think my hand is about to fall off

In Super Mario Odyssey, kicking things is Mario's highest priority, overriding all other actions. If a kickable object, such as a football, is thrown at Mario while he is asleep, he will momentarily wake up just to kick it before instantly going back to sleep.

A Tale of Two Texts To illustrate the calamity, one need only place the original Hollow Knight’s translation beside Silksong’s. The original: No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry out in suffering. Born of God and Void. You are the Vessel. You are the Hollow Knight. Concise. Clean. Haunting. Now behold the Silksong version, which players were forced to endure — rendered here in English as the grotesque monstrosity it resembled: With nary a spirit nor thought shalt thou persist, bereft of mortal will, unbent, unswayed. With no lament nor tearful cry, only sorrow’s dirge to herald thine eternal woe. Born of gods and of the fathomless abyss, grasping heaven’s firmament in thine unworthy palm. Shackled to endless dream, tormented by pestilence and shadow, thy heart besieged by phantasmal demons. Thou art the chalice of destiny. Verily, thou art the Primordial Knight of Hollowness.

Very interesting article on the damage a rogue localizer can do to a game as Silksong's Chinese release sits at 52% positive - the translator not only shared a bunch of info pre-release, breaking NDA, the localization itself was highschool-flowery. A wild read. www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/20...

Happy Silksong Day everybody 🎉

Also RIP Steam's payment processing system. Can't say I'm too surprised

Experimenting with using "OTT" (a famously aggressive multiband compressor) to make clean guitar tones 🎸

Works surprisingly well when paired with any old cabinet sim/convolution plugin. Not bad for a free plugin being used outside of its intended use case!

Silksong is actually nearly here? Am I dreaming?

After a hectic few weeks, just hit a major deadline for the game I've been designing sound for since early 2023. Excited to share more soon!

Oh interesting, I guess that's on both versions then. I'm much more familiar with the GBA, which I'm super nostalgic for because it's one of the first games I ever played

Word of warning - the level "Poochie ain't stupid" is pretty torturous, not sure if that's on the SNES version or not!

You doing Yoshi's Island on switch or GBA? The GBA version has a system where you can give yourself stars that you unlock in bonus rounds, which makes it way easier to make it to the end with full stars. So I've got 100% on it but it feels a bit cheaty compared to the SNES version 😉

Maybe the least relevant thing I have ever been suggested on YouTube. A livestream of a board meeting for a public library almost 5000 miles from where I live

I managed to get a nice clean recording of a Carrion Crow recently 🎤

Despite being very common here, they have a habit of only making sound when far away from me! Fortunately I was able to get nice and close this time

#fieldrecording

Having some fun with arpeggios!

Here is a modular synth version of Muse's "Map of the Problematique"

#eurorack #modularsynth

Testing out a custom module I made 🎶

It's a programmable clock divider/multiplier, with some fun extra features like logic and Euclidean sequencing!

In layman's terms - it does some maths 🧮

#eurorack #modularsynth

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.