Rob Bantin

Audio architect of Snowdrop @Ubisoft, audio programmer, guitarist, electronic music, neurodivergent, author, norsified celt, swarm of bees. Opinions are mine.

Is there a channel or forum where game devs can bitch about console compliance bugs they find in other people’s games?

TFW You’re just setting up the PS5 you got for the house, and realizing a game you’ve worked on is short-listed on the desktop as a “Must See”. #gamedev

Six years living in Sweden today.

The year is 1998. I am waiting for a debugger to attach.
The year is 2012. I am waiting for a debugger to attach.
The year is 2023. I am waiting for a debugger to attach.

There’s a post on LinkedIn about the 3D Slapback echo system I built with Simon K back in 2019 for The Division 2. It’s evolved quite a bit since then, but this was the first version we shipped. #gameaudio

linkedin.com/posts/massiveente

Imagine all those non-game Unity apps built for public spaces like museums that punters download when they arrive.

Unity. Lol.

Who would like me to do a sequel to “Finding Space for Sound” at GDC2024? It would focus on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
#gameaudio #gamedev

In case anyone is wondering what it’s like to premiere two AAA games you’ve worked on the same day… Odd. My face is red too. #avatarfrontiers #starwarsoutlaws

Considering this new picture for my LinkedIn profile. Thoughts?

Happy Transgender Day Of Visibility everyone!

e3 is cancelled, but spare a thought for all those producers that are now being asked to rename a filter in JIRA. #gamedev

Her name was Brianna Ghey.

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2022-12-24

@taylorlorenz Remember the history of Mastodon. It was not built in the face of Musk buying twitter. It was built by people who could not be on Twitter safely even when Jack was in charge. Decisions like no text search and no reblogging were in specific responses to the abusive behavior that led Mastodon's creators to do the hard work of setting up an alternative in the first place.

These pre-April 2022 users who still own the majority of large instances and are the active developers of the software did not want a place for Journalists - many would have found the prying and data aggregation journalist do on social media exceedingly distasteful.

unless things change Mastodon will never have the broadcast vibes of Twitter which emphasized views and interactions. This social network emphasizes the building of direct relationships and to use it successfully you need to be ready to spend far more social capital developing trust and reputation then the equivalent Twitter account.

Twitter under Jack Dorsey really catered to journalists and politicians because they brought in lots of views, and it became a great place to not only put out a story, but to develop one as well. Mastodon was designed by people who didn't want their social media interactions on the front page of the New York Times. For that reason, I suspect that journalists, news makers, and politicians will remain on Twitter in spite of Elon Musk. They are to Twitter what live sports has become to cable TV - the one use that a new technology cannot easily disrupt.

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2022-12-21

Which band most needs a remastered back catalogue with the lead vocals removed?

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