Final session of my "Making 2D Game Assets" course today where we talked about recording sound for your game which is always great fun.

The final wrap up had some fun resources so I thought I might as well share it here as well!

Remember: the secret sauce of audio is always the same! Get as quiet a space as you can, and start by normalizing and reducing noise. Save that version before you do anything else, you'll thank me for it later.

How to create 100 distinct voices

This is a video from a voice coach on how to get started creating distinct character voices, starting with the easiest aspects to vary. youtube.com/watch?v=FVmAEezr...

Wing - Dopamine

We spoke about how flexible the human voice can be at creating sound effects just on its own. Wing takes this to world class levels, creating effects like this using only his voice, microphone positioning, and some reverb (the only effect allowed in the competitions he enters) youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm...

The Magic of Making Sound

This video gives a whole bunch of examples of Foley work. It does assume a certain amount of equipment you won't have available, but the basics are always the same: make sure you can see the video you want to match the sounds to, record the sounds, normalize and remove noise from your recording before setting the final volume you want. youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRI... #GameDev #SoundDesign

Had a couple of days without #ADHD meds as I reset my sleep medication and times (summer holidays mean I can sleep with my actual circadian rhythm rather than taking a boat load of melatonin to try and shift it to match 'society').

And boy oh boy does it make a difference restarting them again. I suppose that even having taken them for years being unmedicated still feels my 'default' state from the decades I was undiagnosed - so stopping feels a drag but normal. Restarting after a break is kind of magical.

Random ask, but: I'm looking to buy some t-shirts with good art work on them. Previously I've bought a lot of pun or fandom based t-shirts, but honestly I've been burned by enough fandoms now that I'm just looking for nice art and decently ethical supply chains that I can buy in the EU without bankrupting myself.

Anyone got good suggestions of places to look, or even better artists I could directly support? Boosts for reach would be awesome, especially as I suspect I'm not the only person looking. #art #clothing #europe

Apparently Shandell, Elliott, and Grant woke up one morning and chose violence when picking their paper's title

tech.lgbt/users/Natasha_Jay/...

@[email protected] That should be Termux, sorry

@[email protected] Boox tablets will run termix if that's close enough? A real shell, but on Android

Using Ink in a #godot game? I built myself an Ink highlighter for Godot's script editor, and if you're feeling brave you can give it a try and help it get to a state where it can be published in the asset store (which would require at a minimum at least one Windows user telling me it works).

code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/godot-in... #gamedev #RandomSharing

@[email protected] @[email protected] "Let he who has never put their mobile in the fridge throw the first cucumber."

Ah, rain in the basement. Just what I always wanted.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Something about IT seems to bring this out in people. I was once asked to help word an email to a customer explaining that we could not honestly assert that the bespoke software we were being commissioned to write had been deployed for at least two years in a production environment without a major security incident given a) it didn't exist and b) it running in anyone else's production environment would suggest a rather brutal breaking of the NDA we'd already signed with them.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Thank you

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Running my own instance I like the idea of tags pub as I don't want to set indiscriminate relays (which are not fully supported by the server yet anyway) of manage a massive federation list that would never include other single user instances I don't already know about in some way.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I'm following along as I'm finding both sides of the debate making good points here. Would you be able to expand a bit on why the effect of a bot boosting a hashtag would be "to harvest follows and attention that would otherwise go directly to the original posters"? A boost, by definition, is the original posters post so I feel like I must be missing a second order effect that is obvious to you.

@[email protected] It's almost like picking a different architecture changes how you solve your problem, rather than removing it. Who would have thought?

(Not that some problems aren't easier or harder to solve with some architectures, but I do get a bit tired of the 'do this, it will make it easy!')

@[email protected] Some of it is so much more banal than the creepiness and directly sexual as well. The very first professional tech conference I went to, I chatted to a female speaker and found out that (in context of the conference having paid to fly her across the atlantic to give a technical talk because she was a world class expert on the subject) she had just been told that she needed to choose between taking a pay cut to move to "developer relations" or get sacked because "a really good engineering candidate came on the market, and you're so good with people skills". No points for guessing the gender of the new team member.

Blue coder needs coffee, badly

@[email protected] You are not alone in thinking this metal-archives.com/bands/Mer...

@[email protected] @[email protected] The release note was from the next release that included the fix, given I apparently haven't had enough coffee to write clearly this morning yet.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Early in my career I accidently wrote a parser for an open source project that restarted from the beginning of the string every character, going one further each time. Never been quite so embarrassed by a release note before or since: "[x] parser performance improved by three orders of magnitude on average config file"

Shhh! It's (kind of) secret. I'm running an online course for teens creating assets for visual novels, and last week one person couldn't make it. So if you're curious about some beginner tips on creating game characters with varying expressions and nice environments in Krita without running out of time to actually write your game, you can be nosey. The video is unlisted because it's a but rough and ready for people see without context, but given you've got enough taste and distinction to be following this account you now have context!

youtu.be/8W7L2-0f2RE #VisualNovel #krita #GameDev #Layers #MoreLayers #YouCanFixThatProblemWithLayersToo