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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

🌏🏜️🔥 🌌🪄🐺 🐎🚀🐑 #my9games

Grid of 9 games. From top left to bottom right: Out Wilds, Sable, Firewatch, Freelancer, Hocus Pocus, Lost Ember, Mount & Blade Warband, X4 Foundations, Palworld.

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Latin American Games Showcase @lagshowcase.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Come discover over 70 games from across Latin America! Huge thanks to @rawfury.bsky.social , publishers of @deepdishdungeon.bsky.social , for presenting our The Game Awards Edition! Watch LIVE on Dec 9 — pre-show starts 3:30 PM PT!

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I love that sometimes my work involves making cute animal noises

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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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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

anyone here ever set up a lightweight FMOD environment as a C# .NET app or something? I'm dreaming of being able to design a live show in FMOD and then trigger it using OSC from like, touch designer, or a phone, or a lighting desk 💭

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

my answer when someone asks me how long is a piece of string

screenshot of a console log with the highlighted text 'Unreasonably long string'.

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Quick morning redesign of Tiny Glade (@pouncelight.bsky.social), basically just to test drive a new microphone! big respect to @noknok.bsky.social for their great work on the game's actual sound 🎶 #gameaudio #redesign #indiedev

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

putting a geophone in crab holes by the beach - real clicky snappy vibes over here 🦀🦀🦀

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g... (they provide an easy form)

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Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate

Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I just revisited this thing I made for a game jam (big up co-jammers Virág and Tété!) called A Drop in The Ocean - an oceanic futurist fantasy where marine life teams up to save itself from humanity. I actually think it holds up pretty well! Narrative and audio by me 💧 blubberbaleen.itch.io/drop

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A Drop In The Ocean by blubberbaleen

An underwater narrative adventure celebrating the life beneath the waves 🌊

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Oh yeah and I'm at Develop tomorrow (wednesday) for one night only too - LGBTQIA roundtable at 2pm - Spill The Tea with @outmakinggames.bsky.social 4pm - Games Industry Biz Party at 7pm Hit me up if you are around and don't be afraid to say hi 🌊

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🔔🐳 THIS FRIDAY I am performing my piece [whalesong] for one night only. It's a sound piece about the noises and voices in the sea using an absurd array of audio tools. Perfect post-Develop night out down at @theatredeli.bsky.social PWYC tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-fring... 🐋🐋🐋🐋🐋

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

FRIENDS 🐳 I am presenting my sound piece [whalesong] in London for the first time since 2020 ✨ it is a love song to cetaceans (toothed and baleen 🐋) where I create oceanic soundscapes with my voice, body, and hacked game controllers. Venue: @theatredeli.bsky.social Tickets PWYC: bit.ly/ws-deli-2025

me shouting into a microphone during a performance of whalesong. date and time details overlaid: London, Friday 11th July, theatre deli, ec3a 4af, 7pm and 8.30pm.

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Out Making Games @outmakinggames.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We're heading to Trans Pride Brighton! 🏳️‍⚧️ Join us on 19th July as we celebrate and support the trans community ✨ rsvp: www.outmaking.games/events-list/...

Join Out Making Games at Trans Pride Brighton 19th July. The background shows the blurred colours of the trans flag, pink, blue and white. The community from Trans Pride 2024 are smiling and holding flags.

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BAFTA Games @baftagames.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We are thrilled to be partnering with @outmakinggames.bsky.social to celebrate #PrideMonth We asked the OMG community for their favourite games that tell LGBTQ+ stories or celebrate inclusivity. Check out our list below and tell us about your favourite games that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

A graphic that shows the logos of Out Making Games and BAFTA

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

morning improvisation with my head in a bowl of water 💦🫧 and a flint rock on a sheet of copper 🪨✨

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Huge respect to organisations like this who are taking a stand! Seen too many that cop out by saying they're 'apolitical' or make excuses for Barclays just because it benefits them.

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm working on a project atm which reminded me of this absolute gem of a sound piece

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SAM KIDEL : "Disruptive Muzak"

YouTube video by SPECTRES SONORES

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Last day to apply to be a mentor for Limit Break! It is honestly the best initiative within games here, everybody is really great, and it really makes a difference. www.limitbreak.co.uk/apply

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Apply — Limit Break | Video Game Mentorship Program

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Into Games @intogames.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🎮 The IG50 ARE BACK! Are you: 📍 From the UK 💪 From a working-class or low-income background? 🔎 Not yet in the games industry? Apply for the IG50 2025 for celebration, support finding work and more! 👉 Apply now: intogames50.uk/apply-2025 👇 Or read on to find out more… (1/4)

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

moving around rocks reveals ancient topographies and maps - the opening of an audiovisual installation about the origins of mining and critical minerals 🪨 (Megalith by Mechanimal, visuals by Limbic Cinema, audio by me)

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

rock-controlled audiovisual installation 🗿

beams of lightning projected on the floor between piles of rocks, in the foreground a computer running audio software

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Tree project I keep banging on about finally happened 🌳🌳🌳 super successful, lots of amazing feedback, tbh I'm just glad my tech pipeline actually worked! this video shows it in action - the music underscores one of the areas in the experience ✨ #deepwood #installation #soundart #maxmsp #unity #wwise

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

i'm usually a very chill person but the fact that trying to select all the text in a property in reaper makes you select ALL THE ITEMS IN THE WORLD is really sending me to the edge today

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

honestly feeling p proud over the creative tech I've built for the #deepwood installation 😊 - unity scene to trigger events based on participants' positions ⭕ - max/ableton to parse and sonify incoming biosensor data 🔊 - wwise to binauralise and route out to each participants' headphones 🎧

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

#Deepwood is getting close! We've moved trees now, instead of the ancient hawthorn we're going for this little glade of fruit trees just about to bloom. Tom has been set dressing to make each tree look special - in the piece, walking by each one plays back a different soundscape ✨🌱

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm collecting spoken stories to build a sonic picture of people's relationships to trees for a sound piece - it could be a childhood memory, a cool tree fact, a spiritual, nostalgic experience, anything! To contribute, send a short voice note by whatsapp to +447848177916 🌳✨ & please share out xx

Four people sitting around a tree with headphones.

instagram cover post for the project - it reads Deepwood: what if we could listen to the inner life of a tree? by Mechanimal.

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Ableton's Wavetable is absolutely awesome for voice! So many cool textures, I really recommend playing with it. Here I've been working on the sound for a garbled signal 🤖 (longer version: youtu.be/7iKzzu6dP-A)

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yes! got Unity set up tracking a person's position around a tree, with audio sources set up at various points in space - so you can walk around a 3d field of sounds (didnt get the audio but hopefully you get the idea!) ✨🌳 #deepwood by #mechanimal

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Just had a beautiful and successful early run through of Deepwood, the installation where biosensor data from a tree is translated into a meditative soundscape 🌲🧑‍💻 this is my view from the audio gazebo (with my lovely headphone hook tree assistant) super excited to be hearing it all come together!

perspective from inside a small gazebo, a laptop in the foreground, a dead tree trunk just next to it. outside, people are gathered around a big old hawthorn tree with headphones on, some standing, some sat.

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Ulysses 🦎 @ulyssesatsea.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Yo yo, I am free for a few months to work on some games for anyone looking for an audio nerd. I have 2 and half years of experience and 6 games big and small completed and accounted for 🙇 my portfolio website: www.ulysssesatsea.com 🦎

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I've been putting money aside each month for a pension and I'm gonna be so pissed off if I die before I retire

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Tree listening station set up - biosensor data is being sonified and turned into a listening experience 🌳🧑‍💻

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Biosensors attached to an ash tree, now for sonification to turn the data into sound! (sensors designed by Danilo Olivaz) project: #deepwood by #mechanimal

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Out Making Games @outmakinggames.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

An Open Letter to Meta www.outmaking.games/meta-open-le...

Dear Meta,

The recent changes to Meta’s content moderation policies put at least 9% of adults around the world at risk.

We are Out Making Games (“OMG”), a network of hundreds of LGBTQ+ games professionals, representing millions of LGBTQ+ gamers and individuals around the world. We are writing to express serious concerns about the recent changes to Meta’s content moderation policies and their potential implications for online safety and inclusion for millions around the world.

A global survey in 2023 found nearly 1 in 10 adults across 30 countries identify as LGBTQ+. Many will be customers of Meta via Facebook, Instagram, Threads, or the Oculus VR gaming platform and will be put at risk by Meta’s decision to reduce certain automated content filtering mechanisms. Social media platforms serve as crucial spaces for connection, support, and identity expression for many LGBTQ+ individuals, especially those in areas with limited in-person community resources. While potentially aimed at promoting broader dialogue, the changes risk creating an environment where harmful speech can proliferate more easily, and compromising these vital digital spaces.

Reduced automated filtering will allow subtle forms of harassment to slip through more frequently. While explicit hate speech might still be caught, coded language and implicit bias often require more nuanced detection systems. The LGBTQ+ community has historically been targeted through such subtle messaging tactics and according to numerous studies, increased exposure to anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric online correlates with higher rates of mental health challenges and decreased feelings of safety in LGBTQ+ communities.The changes will also likely lead LGBTQ+ users to self-censor or withdraw from platforms entirely due to increased exposure to hostile content. This would effectively silence valuable voices and perspectives in our online discourse - and considerably reduce your user base.

We urge Meta to consider:

Conducting a thorough impact assessment of these moderation changes, specifically examining effects on marginalized communities.

Consulting with LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations and safety experts before implementing further policy changes.

Implementing better transparent reporting mechanisms to track and respond to increases in targeted harassment.

Maintaining robust appeals processes for both removed content and missed violations

Your platforms have the power to shape public discourse and influence social attitudes. With this power comes the responsibility to ensure all users can participate safely in online spaces. While content moderation involves complex tradeoffs between freedom of expression and user safety, history shows that undermoderation often disproportionately impacts vulnerable communities.

We look forward to hearing your response and learning about concrete steps Meta will take to protect LGBTQ+ users while maintaining open dialogue on your platforms.

Best regards,

Out Making Games

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Setting up a sonification system to play sounds with sensors in a tree. Currently toying with a lightweight machine learning tool (Wekinator), it's a million years old but I really like it. Anyone used anything similar/newer? Not interested in generating sounds, more about mapping complex parameters

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Xavi 🐳 @blubberbaleen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

while I was in the south of Chile I spent some time in native old growth temperate rainforests listening to trees 🌳 I think I heard water, possibly sap? and creaks/ bending as they swayed in the wind. Also cool to hear my hands touching and drumming on the tree through the resonance of the trunk 💚

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