One of the biggest complaints I hear about audio in video games is the amount of homophobic and racist language used in voice chat during online game play. As a Game Audio Designer, this is an issue that I want to fix. We Audio Designers put our hearts and souls into developing rich audio experiences […]
How to talk dirty and influence gamers: Managing Voice Communication
February 28, 2009 // Posted in Audio Software, Culture, Gaming | No Comments
Review: Looptastic Electro
February 17, 2009 // Posted in Audio Hardware, Audio Software, iPhone stuff (Tags: dj, loops, looptastic, music, Software) | No Comments
Sound Trends is a new music software company from the founders of MixMeister Technology. Sound Trends recently released an application called Looptastic Electro. It’s an application designed for aspiring electronic music producers and performers and includes a great library of loops created by the award winning composer Midihead. As an Lose Weight Exercise to familiarize […]
Tom Sawyer of the web: Games with a purpose
February 17, 2009 // Posted in Culture, Gaming | No Comments
Luis Von Ahn is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. In 2006 he gave a Google Tech Talk presentation about Human Computation. I found it to have a significant impact on my views about technology. Von Ahn’s doctoral thesis was on Captcha. Captcha is the system which prompts us to retype scrambled […]
Atrophic Communication: The impact of technology on language
February 16, 2009 // Posted in Culture | 3 Comments
The language we use sets a standard of expectation which is adhered to by those we communicate with. I’ve noticed that as we are given more avenues to communicate with each other, the expectation of quality in our communication is changed and often times reduced. Or, “t3h Qw/\L17y 0v ur 1337$p33k iz pWnd n00b!!!111!11eleven kekeke” […]
Creating an AdamSonic iPhone App
February 14, 2009 // Posted in Audio Hardware, General, iPhone stuff, Software | 3 Comments
So today I created an iPhone app for my blog in less than 5 minutes. Here’s how I did it and how you can add AdamSonic to your iPhone too! I downloaded and installed the WPtouch iPhone Theme in WordPress. WordPress has a one click installation process that makes adding a plug-in as easy as […]