Joe Fowler

I open the other app and all I see is bald masterchef man mixed up with some weird conspiracy about milk that they've manifested.

"Slow news day I guess"

Oh nvm South Korea has declared martial law.

I've finally worked out why the daily mail are profitable.

"They were technological pioneers". The first stereo mix they did had drums and vocals in one ear and guitar and bass in the other. I can't have one headphone in while walking to listen to traffic without thinking I'm in a karaoke bar. You can pioneer something and still do a dreadful job with it.

Day 137 of complaining that Microsoft decided to gatekeep the best spatial audio tool on the market after putting out a trailer.

If Sony's new spatial audio engine doesn't hold up to the heritage of Project Acoustic then the technology has reversed by 10 years.

I promise I'll find a new hill soon.

I think the frustration is selection. We had probably the best u20 crop ever and yet, despite putting on a show in England A every week, they've been kept away from the main squad despite a run of low stakes fixtures in exchange for "throw the game in 20 mins" Ford and "76 minutes this season" Slade

You could always take Borthwick off our hands...

I'd treat the 6n like a yard sale to show off your next generation of players to try and convince coaches there's something to work with. Adam Jones from quins would be my pick, perfectly balance of pedigree, experience of coaching young players into stars, and a priority on work rate.

I just can't imagine the line for that job is particularly long at the moment. There's one or two names I'd put a bet on but most of them have contractual obligations to clubs until the end of the season. I imagine they'll probably keep him on until the end of the 6n while looking for someone new.

97 balance druid during ulduar checking in. I guarentee I spent a lot of my teenage years trying to match your dps. Small world.

I don't understand why we've gone back to emulated 3d audio within headsets rather than just doing it at source. Binaural is fun but so much goes into making it sound good that headsets can't emulate. Reverb specifically. I guarantee so many people will be put off by bad experiences with these cans.

PlayStation to axe 900 jobs and close London studio The layoffs are the latest to hit the tech sector, which has seen big cutbacks worldwide since 2023.

Tell these 900 folk that. Had to dry a lot of friends' tears that week.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technol...

Also a big fan of rugby, F1, MMO's, hiking around my home in the staffordshire moorlands, Warhammer and shouting at random people in the pub about Post-Soviet Eastern European analogue audio gear. It's a pleasure to meet you all!

Just realised I should probably say:

I'm a sound designer, sound artist, composer, audio dev, and gamedev

I teach Creative Audio at Salford Uni

I'm about to start on a doc for BBC R4

My work has been shown at places like Jodrell Bank and TEDx

You can see some of it here: www.joe-fowler.co.uk

"Describe Microsoft in one image"

Final reminder for anyone in audio #gamedev or any spatial #audiodev to grab the sunsetted Project Acoustics source code before it's permanently removed. Best in class for spatial audio and it isn't even close. Microsoft once again favouring gatekeeping over innovation.

github.com/microsoft/Pr...

I take it all back, dragon age veilguard is in my top 3 games of the last 5 years

Half of me wants to spend the day writing my PhD, the other half wants to spend it writing a 6000 word over-analysis of the environmental design of the new wow expansion and how a heritage game dev and art director can learn lessons on how to present history from it. I know what'll win.

You know how you get music for musicians (some jazz like giant steps for example) where it's made purely to amaze other musicians with how complex it is and how it plays with the rules of music? Are there any games made for game dev people at all in the same way? Like pure technical flex?

#gamedev

My PhD becoming less about spatial audio and more about heritage games was personally unexpected yet outwardly predictable. If someone told me a year ago that doing sound design for a Brazilian tribal archaeology vr game would have led me here, I'd have doubled checked the expiry date on my coffee.

The most common thing I've seen said about star wars outlaws is that it's "not as good as red dead redemption 2 and is therefore a bad game and not worth buying". I'd only buy 3 games a century if that was the case. What on earth has happened to harmless fun.

I made the mistake of opening 'the other app' and christ I'm not doing that again

Deadlock is the most fun I've had playing games since valorant first came out

The head of Amazon game studios trying to justify replacing voice and motion capture jobs with ai by saying that video games don't contain acting is the most bizarre and tone deaf thing I've ever read

#gamedev

I'm amazed that more people didn't start working on narrative text games when disco elysium first came out, looks amazing, art style is stunning!

I do agree, but at the same time so few people watched the wholesome direct at gamesfest that it kind of tells publishers that violence sells. People vote with their time and money at the end of the day, and it gets harder to make that argument the further we get without change. It's a tough one.

The way I see it (/hope) is that because they're already getting articles complaining it's delayed again, they'd rather just not set another release date and miss it. Level-5 always do this and they never learn, but they always end up as banger games!

The worst part about working in media has always been risking your ability to pay rent on someone else's idea. Games seem to have an even bigger issue with it due to how producers have less power than ceo's when it comes to project allocation. Ceo's would rather downscale than lose their bonus.

My prayers have instantly been answered. This is what the game dev industry has needed for so long. The fact it's built by
Audiokinetic and tested by square enix means that hopefully this is now best in class and super easy to utilise.

www.sony.eu/presscentre/...

I had to make a frankenstein build of python to run a piece of software an industry partner built because they were running 10 year old modules on an updated version of python so half of the language used is no longer supported in regular python, asking for cmd privileges didn't go down too well

The only thing which worried me a bit is the ban on letting redundant devs include work from it in their cv. Not a normal practice and usually means you threw so much stuff at the wall that half of it would get people expecting the wrong thing if it leaked. I bet there's probably 3-4 versions

The more I look at it the more I can see that they saw witcher 3 and shifted dev because action rpg was supposed to be the next big thing, especially when sekiro came out straight after. Then you start seeing the hype for bg3 and start panicking and end up with a hybrid. I'm quietly optimistic tho