Matthew Lightbound

Dead Island 2 gameplay is here for the the world to see, come listen to what all the audio team have been pouring their gorey hearts into youtu.be/pHOqRtA4OK8

Since I forgot the bandit mechanic we’ve ended up taking way more locations into the next game than we should have. But I suppose that just helps the feel of history 🤷

Got around to our first play through of Oath tonight. After my brain finally clicked you really can feel the world bending with you. Excited to see what madness this ‘Muppets does Game of thrones’ leads to

I'll be talking about cost effective ways to build up audio gear, plugins, and sound libraries when starting out in game audio tomorrow with Into Games!

@kjw_audio Fingers crossed Kyle! San fran needs a bit of Blackpool energy!

Submitted an application to give a talk at GDC 2025. Let's see if we can go 4 conferences for 4 applications in this streak!

If you missed my #AirCon24 talk about Audio Tests, here it is: youtube.com/watch?v=3udeK_…

Big shout out to Big Ron's @disappointment delicious performance, can the Billy stock big pies now?

Finished @coalsupper 's Thank Goodness you're here in a single sitting. Glorious absurdism that I need more of in my life. Audio was a fantastic breath of fresh air and a much welcome antidote to the AAA audio we often surround ourselves in as sound designers.

@SoundCuts I’ve had the audio for their trailers on loop since their announce, glorious, playful stretchy design, 👌looking forward to playing it tonight!

Being a proud Yorkshire Lass, I cannot be more excited for this game, it looks hilarious. (I would have loved to have worked on it) playing it tonight! #YorkshireDay m.youtube.com/watch?v=siT1HT…

AUDIO DIRECTOR FRIENDS - I'm sure you've seen in the dev news that Sumo has had some tough times recently and needed to lay off a percentage of our devs. I'm sad to say my friend Sully was one of the people affected by this and is now looking for work elsewhere as a sound designer. I can whole heartedly recommend him, he's talented, hard working and just a generally awesome dude. He'd be a great addition to any team, so please reach out and snap him up! linkedin.com/in/sulemanhuss…

Just uploaded our presentation from GACO23 looking at how game audio might adapt some concepts from acoustic ecology, including UE demos of how you might do this using env following, spectral analysis, metasounds and audio busses gameaudioimplementation.com #gameaudio #UnrealEngine

@QuinySound @GameDevHeroes Mega congrats Qin! Well deserved

An incredible week. Huge thanks to @GameDevHeroes for this honour. It was such a wonderful night! To my partner who’s been the light and beacon of my life, to all my friends that have been giving me tremendous courage and strength - THANK YOU! 💜 Keep the magic and keeping on!

@SoundCuts @matthewflorianz Thank you for the excellent hosting again Adele! And it was lovely to have a proper chat with you this year!

Develop Conf 2024 ✅ Lovely to co-host the audio track with @matthewflorianz Lovely to catch up with people and to hang with the Soundcuts crew, with our traditional last night team meal. #gameaudio #DevelopConf #gamedev

This makes me sad. Honestly, I'd prefer the GTA approach, where they patched out the licenced content rather than pulling the game entirely. Timed licenced content in games is dumb and should never be a thing.

I’ll be at @developconf speaking with the lovely @ryanwilliamsaud about some of the weird and wonderful things we found when exploring diegetic music for @deadislandgame , come along and say hi if you can!

Unfortunately, a tabloid newspaper has got hold of a music video I recorded in Islington North with an iconic grime artist I've admired for years. They are planning to publish a heavily edited clip, so I'm releasing the full version myself. Watch here: tinyurl.com/yeymfb96

Our Art Team recently visited @dmuleicester to deliver a presentation on game art and gave the final-year students some useful insights and tips on their portfolios! 🚀 Read all about it here: dsdambuster.com/blog/dambuster… #gameart #gamedev

The deadline for applications to our Access Fund is closing this Friday (17th), so if you're thinking of applying, then you need to get in there quick. We'd like to thank @fmodstudio, @audiokinetic, @sweetjusticesnd, @SweejTech, & @Fracture_Sounds for their donations

In-keeping with our aims we are striving to be an inclusive, accessible event that enables all individuals to attend and to have a great day. We welcome diversity. Pronouns will be indicated on conference badges, the building is fully wheelchair accessible.

🎉 AirCon is back again bigger and better!🎉 🔊 50 Live Events and 10 AMAs from 86 audio professionals. 📍 Location - right here on Airwiggles.com. ⌛ June 10th - June 14th. 💸 The event is completely FREE. 📅 Check out the full schedule below!

One of our motivating aims is to develop the diversity of game audio personnel & to widen participation in the practice We’re offering 10 free tickets for underrepresented folks. Email / dm us. (If this is you & you've already bought tickets - get in touch & we’ll refund you)