Zeke Bandy

In my experience this is precisely what therapy is, and it was quite helpful!

I can't look at this painting without breaking into a cold sweat for fear that the princess is about to get dragged away by shadow creatures again

About halfway through The Last Guardian and let me tell you what, this game better have a happy ending. If anything happens to my best friend Trico, heads will roll

Here comes another Ratchet and Clank (2002) playthrough

Wow what a missed opportunity, they could have called it Nintendo Switcheroo

First-person aiming has always been a barrier for me. I’m just not good at it, never have been. And I know everyone is super excited about the mouse/Joy Con switcheroo but as someone who doesn’t play many PC games I hope that more games on the Switch 2 include features like this too.

I just finished the Portal 1 port for the Switch and I’m pleasantly surprised by the motion controls. I was hesitant at first but when you turn the sensitivity wayyy down it felt really natural. Reminded me of the bullet-time in BotW and TotK.

Dark Souls 1 map transposed onto smash melee

I feel like at this point whenever Mario loses his hat he should a little bald spot back there

Holy cow, the multi-editor 😍🥰🥹

Ain’t nothing sounds better than cracking open a cold can of soda

The more time I spend using Wwise the more I feel that it’s just really generous. Some of the functions seem like they shouldn’t as easy as they make them. It’s so refreshing to have the thought, “How do I do X?” and the answer isn’t, “Oh, that’s not possible! 🙃”

There is an article on Skillbard’s website that dives deeper into some of their techniques and influences, definitely worth a read/listen. www.skillbard.com/work/scienti...

The Shepard Scale, where descending tones are constantly fading from lower octaves to higher, creating the illusion of infinite descent.

John Cramer’s audio recreation of the beginning of the universe.

Implementing “recordings” of the Big Bang in the sound design, creating musical motifs based on the spirals of the Golden Ratio and the infinite pull of gravity, not to mention a score which includes jazz improv, a full orchestra, and throat-singing. The list goes on. It took them four years.

And speaking of how it sounds, @skillbard.bsky.social did an absolutely stellar job. Genesis Noir looks incredible, and the sound design serves to elevate the visuals but also to be part of the storytelling itself. Truly inspired. Some examples include:

I’ve been telling some folks about it and it’s difficult to explain, since it falls into more of an interactive experience than a “game”. But since it looks and sounds so great it I eventually just pull up a video of it and they’re sold.

Finally played through Genesis Noir and golly gee. Honestly pretty disappointed that it took me this long to play it. Either none of my friends know about the game, or none of my friends know about ME. Boy howdy, it hit me square in the chest.

The Neverhood (1996). Terry Scott Taylor somehow created music that sounded like it was made out of clay