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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I swear. This is the second year in a row I've been at this campsite in Cornwall. They have live bands that play in a barn thing which is great. Local bands. Teenage dirt bag is played by EVERY one. I feel like Cornwall has a second national anthem. Does it have a first?

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My 7 year old just offered some career advice to me. She reasoned I should work at McDonald's because last time we were there, there was so many people in there that it must pay well. #joinaunion #7yearoldwisdom

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just arrived in Cornwall and already made a friend

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I forgot to give a shoutout to Jamie (@ Moving Forward Sports) for the incredible Curse of Cards t-shirts! Have some poses! You may also spot a wild @benwolland.bsky.social as I grabbed him t’other week, sporting his shirt.

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Rubén Rincón @rubenrincon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Sadly, the entire audio team at ZA/UM is being made redundant as part of the layoffs. If you're looking (or expect to be looking) for Sound Designers or Tech Sound Designers, please don't hesitate in reaching out to @eliforster.bsky.social, @missgameaudio.bsky.social and @soundbear.bsky.social

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The 500 richest people on Earth got $366 billion richer yesterday, the single biggest jump ever. This is what a global economy rigged for billionaires looks like.

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

youtu.be/WY1Xb818nPg #gameaudio #curseofcards #indiegamedev In this video i'm walking through how i've created the underwater ambience for #curseofcards Going from source recording to in game working in #wwise #reaper and #ue5

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Curse of cards - Audio BTS - Underwater ambience creation

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Lewis Thompson @lewisthompsound.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you're interested in how we made #AirCon26 - Greg, Lewis and I sat down and made this one-off podcast episode about it. If youre in the audio industry you might find it interesting! #gameaudio #filmaudio #sounddesign #gamemusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCNV...

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The insane amount of work behind Airwiggles Audio Conference

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#gameaudio #audiopost #aircon26 #airwiggles Just under 2 weeks away from the IRL meet up to end this years #aircon. Hopefully you can find time to catch some of the talks that are happening for free at aircon26.com this year from May 21st until May23rd. If you're in #manchester come along may 24th!

Graphic for the free Manchester audio meet up on Sunday 24th May from 4pm until 10pm at the Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. The meet up is part of a worldwide meetups happening at the end of Air Con 26.

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Recording river at night so I can get a really clean recording of... distant traffic, dogs barking in backyards, aeroplane fly over, fireworks for some reason... All for @sircalalot.bsky.social upcoming game Curse of cards. Wishlist here store.steampowered.com/app/4207000/... #gameaudio #recording

Night shot shows a long shadow silhouette of an audio person with a microphone blimp in the foreground

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester... Hi! It's that time once again. For the bi-monthly audio social on Wed March 11th, Port St Beer house from 6pm. Meet fellow audio professionals and those interested in audio work for games and beyond. #gameaudio #networking #manchester #social #networking

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Manchester Audio Drinks

A social for audio workers and aspiring audio workers in and around the Manchester area. Join us on discord: https://discord.gg/uEJtejS3xc

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

No idea why this is so compelling. It's like snooker and a tie breaker in a tennis match rolled into one. Maybe... I dunno. Watching it though! #curling #Olympics #gbr

Gbr versus Canada in the gold medal curling match at the winter Olympics

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Tim Prebble HISSandaROAR @hissandaroar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Stoked to release WIND FLUTE SPINNER a new HISSandaROAR library SD084 #sounddesign #gameaudio www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScK...

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HISSandaROAR SD084 WIND FLUTE SPINNER

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today I started what I hope to be a new habit. Taking my lunch time walk to just record something small, each day. Very much inspired by @fabisound.bsky.social Tiny Town Tuesdays and also the excellent interviews with Arc Raiders audio team I watched recently. youtu.be/Ro-NktgS6-Y

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Lunch time field record

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/01/2026

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

This week on Curse of Cards… I’m on holiday get off my back about it. Gahhh. (Hope everyone has had a lovely New Year) Check out the game on Steam, if you want to see what I’ve been making: s.team/a/4207000 #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #cardgame #ue5 #DungeonCrawler

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Sam @saminton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We now have BIG waves 🌊 #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

There's a lot of lessons in here but maybe the most pertinent one to everyone is, do not comply in advance. youtu.be/dQMZR64G_eM?...

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Italy's Radical Solution to Extreme Inequality

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Leon's are closing down the literal 2 Leon's I go to with any regularity at all. Last year at Develop I think I literally survived on Leon's at breakfast every day :/ need another reliable vegan meal between Piccadilly and port st beer house Manchester for audio drinks.

Guardian article outlining how Leon's is closing down Manchester and Brighton restaurants.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Paul Shelley @ Develop Brighton @paulshelleyaudio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is a sound demo of mine from this year focused towards platformer, coop and metroidvania style games. If you're looking for sound design and/or implementation in your game, feel free to reach out, I'd love to work together. (Website in bio) #gamedev #indiedev #gameaudio #gamesounddesign

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/11/2025

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

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ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules

OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated www.eurogamer.net/this-is-a-bl...

artwork of Bae-Luxe and Roxy aka Real Dimez in GTA 6

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

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The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 11/11/2025

"No one should be punished for being part of a union or for speaking honestly about their work."

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Tomorrow evening is the last Manchester audio drinks of the year. It's at 6pm (although I'm likely going to be there a little later) At the port st beer house. Northern quarter. #gameaudio #Manchester #social

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Cloud storage. Where do you get yours? I've had a modest amount, i used one drive and the bonus was i got word etc... stuff for free as i saw it. Alongside the massive layoffs and the jamming AI into every app, i don't feel much like paying their increased price for M365 anymore. Where should i go?

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Huey Games @hueygames.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

💥Destroy the defences in your fighter 💰Plunder the depths with your droid ⏫Upgrade both 💪DOMINATE www.hypersentinelfusion.com #PitchYaGame #indiegame #shooter #pixelart

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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 06/11/2025

For folks who think Rockstar firing 30+ workers in the union isn't union busting - what do you think union busting would look like? Do you think they'd come right out and be like "Yep, we're union busting"? Is that what you'd need to hear before you believed that's what they were doing?

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IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 31/10/2025

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity. We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Some believe that Megalithic standing stones of ancient Britain and Gaul represent points where the veil between worlds is thinnest... In Curse of Cards, these act as your waystones in the library. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5 #folklore

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

That EA buyout based on using AI to bring down costs could well be an even bigger catastrophe than I'd assumed.

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Behold! Curse of Cards has a minimap now. It's inspired by Metroid Prime's lovely little isometric display (with an added bit of perspective so you don't randomly go cross-eyed while staring at it). #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I'm trying free movement instead of grid-based for Curse of Cards. Whaddya reckon? Pros: Better interaction with water and foliage; less disorientating; rooms can be any shape. Cons: You lose the vibe. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Callum Roberts @sircalalot.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Time and space are inextricably linked in Curse of Cards' Amber Archives... Here's some exploration and card match gameplay. Also, also, have some early music from Ben Wolland, the game's composer! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #dungeoncrawler #ue5

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Rus McLaughlin @rusmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

It's rare I see a Music Composer job opening, and I believe I know a fair few of those. #gamejobs www.twine.net/projects/b8w...

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Soul Story freelance job | Twine

Robbie is looking for a Music Composer: Soul Story

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Ben Wolland @benwolland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

my 6 year old is playing #untitledgoosegame on her own for the first time. She just asked me for a pad and paper so she can write the list down so she doesn't have to use "that button" to see the list. Been playing games for 5 seconds and she's already trying to optimize her playthroughs...

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