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George Vu

@georgevu.bsky.social
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VO Designer on Dota 2, Magic: The Gathering Arena, Nickelodeon Games. Sound Editor for feature films.

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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Been awhile since I socialized here. Mostly because of projects, traveling, and realigning my priorities. Realigning such that I make games instead of spending another decade collecting rejection letters from AAA studios. Other than that, I also updated my dialogue tools.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Tomodachi Life. For me, it's gonna be a mess of Dota, Deadlock, and Nickelodeon characters.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Disappeared for a bit because I was getting ready for an informal interview about becoming an employee at Valve. Long story short, I would fail the formal interview and I have a laundry list of things to work on before trying again. I'm pretty excited about having tangible actions.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I decided to go AWOL from all forms of online social platforms in December. Went great, played a bunch of games, did family stuff, conquered Mars. Back to making games.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Who doesn’t like frogs? Because the number of frog in Dota 2 just increased. Know what else increased? My frog association. Battletoads, Punk Frogs, and now frog bard Largo.
Largo, a frog bard in Dota 2.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My clients are convinced to continue hiring me for SpongeBob games. And I’m here for it. It’s a wild thing to work with actors I grew up listening to.
A poster for SpongBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide.
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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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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I got a bunch of posters back when I first started on Dota 2 from Valve. It only took a couple years to hang them up.
Team Fortress 2 posters I got back when I first started on Dota 2.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
teamLabs is very easy to get lost in. These are a few shots while I was lost. I wish I’d filmed more in Japan. Editing and color grading is actually pretty fun.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Of the loot I acquired from a recent Japan trip, I think picking up The Great Gatsby in Japanese was very off the cuff. It’s also the 100 year anniversary edition.
The Great Gatsby 100 Year Anniversary Edition in Japanese.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Curry craving follows me back from Japan all the time. Thinking about making Soba too.
A dutch oven containing Japanese style curry. May have been overeager with the solid ingredients. Still tasty.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I think about Musashi’s life sometimes. Be the best at something, retire to a mountain, write a book, don’t explain anything. Maybe. Minus the duels to the death. Might be doing a road trip with local friends the next time I’m in Japan.
Eating curry soba in Kyoto.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The past three years of games have covered a wide gamut of emotional and character arcs set in a variety of worlds. Playing games reminds me of why I even got into game dev in the first place.
Encapsulating games I’ve played/re-played recently.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
JPL brings the hype every year. And this year, I got to help bring the magic to his voice with some audio sorcery.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I got to do voice design for this year’s Dota International. So I got this year’s coffee mug. TI starts tomorrow!
A Dota International coffee mug styled in this year’s TI 14.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
More scripts. These ones help me stay organized and deliver game ready dialogue to spec. Only took me three tries to make the social media version of these videos have an actual thumbnail.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Previously I talked about an auto renaming tool I made for Reaper. The region creator is how that auto-renamer can work in the first place. And for those that didn’t know: video game scripts are largely written in Excel. Everyone’s favorite characters are spreadsheets.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Labbing my Reaper scripts in a test session is only half the equation. At some point, I had to test them on a commercial session. Because I found some bugs and logic errors I made.
Notepad of observations I made while using my Reaper scripts on a commercial session. But fixing is in my future.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I got Mario Golf on sale. First two hours: time to make Miis of characters I work with instead of golfing. Good start for now.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I made an Auto Renamer tool in Reaper. It takes regions (that have the filenames the file itself must have from another script I will talk about later) and forces the file to have that filename in the session.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
On a finishing trajectory for Arceus. Currently: a Munchlax eludes me. I found a Snorlax way earlier.
A Munchlax from Pokemon.
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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
quite a few open roles on our unannounced projects over here - come work with me!
JULY 2025
OPEN ROLES
BILZZARD
UNANNOUNCED PROJECTS
ENTERTAINMENT
careers.blizzard.com
PRODUCTION
Senior Producer, Mission
Senior Producer II, World
Senior Producer II, Creative
ENGINEERING
Principal Software Engineer, Engine Systems
Senior Software Engineer, Gameplay Tools
Senior Software Engineer, UI Features
Senior Software Engineer II, Build Systems
ART
Senior Animator, Gameplay
Software Engineer II, Al Combat Gameplay
Senior Outsource Supervisor
Software Engineer, Combat Gameplay
Senior VFX Artist I
DESIGN
Senior Technical Artist
Design Director, Missions
Senior Technical Artist, World
Principal Designer, Missions
Senior Technical Artist, Animation
Senior Designer, UI/UX
Technical Artist
VFX Artist
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Test Director
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I watched streamers discover for the first time Meet the Team for Team Fortress 2 today. Time comes for us all.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Apparently what I do between projects is to think mostly about how to do those projects better. One thing I've learned recently with programming is to be a bit more judicial with descriptive constants so I'm not leaving magic numbers all over the place. I decided to listen to that advice.
A snippet of Reaper scripts I made with the Reaper API to do a bunch of various functions. Like make Reaper feel like Pro Tools to the exact opposite recommendation by various folks.Reaper comes with an Ext State ini file that can hold persistent data values between Reaper sessions. Very good for setting up toggles and branch states for actions.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Fantastic portrayal of Mr. Terrific in Superman. Felt like I was watching a long episode of Justice League Animated.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
It is surreal regularly working with Tom and Bill on SpongeBob games. I watched the show when I was a kid. I do wish I'd been able to work with Kevin Conroy at least once on a project. He'll always be Batman to me.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sound editing comes with a lot of problems that need solving. Letting the computer solve some of that for me is how I can be motivated to look for the fifth to last selected take 800 lines into an editing day. Scripting is how I let the computer handle the mundane details so I can focus on editing.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One thing I tend to struggle with in Unreal is tracking data flow. Conceptually, I understand being able to watch for booleans/variables that are in other cpp or Blueprint classes and such. Getting a player weapon to make a sound sometimes takes a bit of wrenching.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Been awhile since I last talked about anything in my world. Just been learning Wwise a step at a time. I figured out the LFE workflow for surround mixes (which you can’t hear on mobile). Been doing a lot of mixing lately otherwise.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I walked into the studio one day and Patrick Stewart strolled in.
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Sabrina Fedele @sabrinafedeleaudio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It's time! Check out how game development and audio relate to the Pareto Principle in my talk for AirCon today at 4pm PDT. It's online and free. Thanks to Airwiggles for having me! #sounddesign #gameaudio #freelancer #speak www.airwiggles.com/c/live-event...
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I was today years old when I discovered sushi pies exist.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Went to Anime Wonder and had good chats with people I know there and walked up a mountain that is also an arboretum. I successfully made it out of the studio today.
Got a Roche sticker from Austin and an Appa model.The view halfway up the Ventura Arboretum which also happens to be a mountain.A pichi plant on the Ventura Arboretum mountain. It looked cool so I took a picture.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My brother only slightly nudged me. But it looks like I’ve got a Saturday day trip and maybe catch up with some folks I know there. Because on Sunday my family wants me to grill food for them.
Anime Wonder in Ventura here I come.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
For a twenty year old keyboard, this thing still feels great (after a cleaning). Sucks that the spacebar is a see-saw though. Until I find a solution that doesn’t involve super glue/melting plastic, I have tape to help me feel the actuation range.
A twenty year old keyboard that comes with the Icon D-Control. Still works great if a little more involved to get it cleaned.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I tend to read more than I write.
Reading a book on an iPad for a chill weekend.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Lots of friends and extremely knowledgeable people this year. Also sorry Lewis. Your email hit while I was in the middle of a fairly large project.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Keeping busy. Keeping being around. I learned how to send height controls to the faders on a D-Control for VCA spill group tracks.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Line delivery that lives rent free in my head? Kinda cheating but Ben Starr’s performance in FF16. That man can convince me he’s genuinely crying.
media.tenor.com
a man holding a sword in front of a fire with a caption that says ' maxcaps '
ALT: a man holding a sword in front of a fire with a caption that says ' maxcaps '
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Finally hooked up a cheap and crappy cassette deck I got awhile back to see what it does with recording. What it does is kill high frequencies. Looks like I’ll need to exaggerate the high end when recording into cassette.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What’s the strategy when you live in a neighborhood of chatty dogs and people who like flying aircraft? And you want to record? Be louder. More seriously, three trombone part recording is fun. I need to work on my intonation.
A bass trombone and tenor trombone being recorded by me.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Always wanted to do more FM synthesis. Zebra is getting me to do that. Coolio.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Digging into a new synthesizer is kinda like reading a new book. When you already know that most synthesizers are a sound generator, filter, and amplifier, you can spend your time learning the specific quirks instead.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you play a wind instrument you know you gotta warm up your chops before seriously playing. Audio engineers gotta warm up their ears too. I warm up by listening to music gradually increasing the volume until it's at working level.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My birthday (which isn’t today) ended being very Persona themed. Surprised my brother could find Joker merch.
Two pins featuring the protagonists of Persona 5 and Persona 3. An Orbit vinyl player spinning a Persona 3 Reload vinyl.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Ahoy! I'm George. Audio Sorcerer frequently working on games/movies/animations. If you play Dota, my job is to make character voices sound even more good. Also really like your shirt. Got to see Troy Baker sing a Bioshock Infinite song at the GDC concert last year. I am also not at GDC.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When I go quiet, it's usually cause I'm dug in and working. It's become a sort of comfort zone to ignore the world and do the thing. Hard to believe just six years ago I had to dig in and learn how to talk to people just to get my foot in the door. Had to learn some vulnerability and resilience.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
it just hit me that I turned into the guy in the chair for the past six years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Rh...
youtube.com
Autotune vs real voice hilarious video !! LOL ComediHa!
YouTube video by LOL ComediHa!
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The amount of times characters tell each other to get their shit together in FF7 Rebirth is really entertaining for me. The English localizers had a lot of fun with the script making the dialogue really organic.
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George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Voice actors always come up with very convincing KO/Dying sounds. I've always wondered where that gets pulled from to be be convincing without literally choking themselves out mid-session? Monster voice actors too. I've heard some very monstrous things come out of humans very convincingly.
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