Bill Rouse

YouTube video by New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert 2025 Announcement

Our ✨ free ✨ concert is on June 14th!
Get your tickets here:
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Jingle Credit: @ElementalityStudios
Video Credit: Eli Obus
Voiceover Credit: Robert Scattergood

YouTube video by Bill Rouse Sound Reel 2025

Hello, #PortfolioDay! I'm a sound designer and audio engineer based in New Jersey. I am proficient in tools such as Wwise, FMOD, Unreal, and Unity, and I've recorded and mixed an orchestra that plays video game music. Snippets of my work are in the video below. Enjoy! #GameAudio
youtu.be/T3Ah1TRCeb0

I've installed the KA mod through a windows computer and then moved the game to the deck's library, and there are some old windows drivers that you install through winetricks so the music plays properly. I recalled I followed a reddit post for that. I'll try to see if I can find it when I'm home

I've played Tron 2.0 on the deck. Killer App is needed to make the game mostly bug free and you'll also need to switch control schemes when you're doing the light cycle stages. Installing the game on the steam OS is also a bit of a hassle.

After six years it must feel like a huge relief to have it done. Congratulations on the release! Looking forward to playing it!

rock n rule art I did ages ago!

Ridiculously awesome. Great job!

Samus gazing at the world.

Funnily enough, I can't recall seeing any artwork that depicts Samus accompanied by an actual bird. #metroid #art

After a hard drive disaster last year I thought I'd lost this Metroid piece (original is proving elusive but it's at decently high res, at least)

The guitar front and center in a hallway with blue carpeting. The guitar is an Epiphone SG painted in matte black and is sitting on a stand.

Image of the guitar's strap button moved to a new location. The guitar is on top of a white Christmas tablecloth. The precision screw set is on top of the image. The strap button's old location is visible in this image but was later filled in.

Image of a guitar's headstock with the Metroid series' Screw Attack symbol painted on. The headstock is lying on aluminum foil with some of the dried white paint on it. On the top of the image is the mini roller used to paint the image. At the bottom left is the key used to open paint cans.

New instrument, an Epiphone SG! I made some of my own modifications to it which was a journey. Now it's going on another journey with me as I strive to become a better musician.

Looking to save some money by switching to an open source alternative? This site has some good options for popular software: https://switching.software

I recently had the fleeting curiosity to check in on GDC, and reminders like this show me how much the industry is in shambles.

I want to believe otherwise, but it's hard to ignore that layoffs of this magnitude are now the norm.

In other lighter news, I'm getting back into the swing of things by developing my own game, and I made a challenge to source the sound effects from those 1960s sound fx records, so I can modify them however I want, but they have to have come from those sfx.

I think it'll be fun and interesting.

I have a way to see who unfriended me on Facebook right after I posted about my fears of what I can't control.

Just wanted to say to that person thank you for taking out the trash.

Have you checked in a sound hole?

YouTube video by New Jersey Gamer Symphony Orchestra Bloodborne - Laurence, the First Vicar & Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, Performed by NJGSO

It's staggering how one of the videos I had some involvement in - recorded and mixed - has 60k views on YouTube and it is still climbing. I'm still speechless everytime I check up on it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC8K...

Lavender is one of my favorite smells.

Where did you hear that from? I don't want to get my hopes up until it's absolutely confirmed

I hope MAGFest does MAGLabs again. The cool thing about Labs is its focus on DIY workshops, and although the big MAGFest has those, the fact that it also offers everything else and you can only do so much in four days makes it very inconvenient to attend those workshops.

Please bring back Labs!

2. For some reason, I enjoy dabbling in making old PC games work on new hardware, or just modding in general.

1. I love collecting vinyl records. I don't think they are the de facto way of listening to music as there are some music that sound worse on vinyl, but there is something so ritualistic about prepping to play the music and then just letting it play without skipping songs. Plus the large artwork!

Finally, the last day at MAGFest was spent saying my goodbyes to the friends I ran into, watching a panel about recording classical music (thank you @fundsounds.bsky.social, super informative!) and then finally partaking in the Metroid photo shoot.

It's been fun #MAGFest, see you next year.

Screen showcasing results of MAGFest Challenges in 2025. Played for 3.45 hours and scored 310 points.

Screen showcasing results of MAGFest Challenges in 2024. Played for 3.22 hours and scored 190 points.

Screen showcasing results of MAGFest Challenges in 2025. Played for 3.65 hours and scored 250 points.

Did the #MAGFest Challenges last night into early morning. I actually did better this year than the last two years! Guess it helps that the controllers weren't broken.

Day 2 starting strong. Haven't posted about Day 1 because I was having too much fun

Day 0 of #MAGFest

Badge acquired, catching up with friends, the chill day.

I went to Joint Custody in U Street. Very good inventory, walked away with these two records but there was a copy of Off the Bone by the Cramps that had the 3D glasses and i really wish I could have afforded that!

Why not?

I mean, that's technically not wrong

I've arrived for MAGFest's Day 0, planning on going to some record stores in DC before checking in. Meanwhile, I'm just enjoying the view

Take care of yourself. There is absolutely no shame in prioritizing your mental health over everything else that's happening now.