George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Been 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. 110
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Tomodachi Life. For me, it's gonna be a mess of Dota, Deadlock, and Nickelodeon characters. 100
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Disappeared 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. 110
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I 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. 040
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Who 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. 050
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025My 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. 080
Reposted by George VuPaul Shelley @ Develop Brighton @paulshelleyaudio.bsky.social · 14/11/2025This 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 1309
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I 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. 160
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025teamLabs 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. 150
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Of 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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Curry craving follows me back from Japan all the time. Thinking about making Soba too. 030
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I 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. 040
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The 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. 151
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025JPL brings the hype every year. And this year, I got to help bring the magic to his voice with some audio sorcery. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I got to do voice design for this year’s Dota International. So I got this year’s coffee mug. TI starts tomorrow! 030
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025More 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. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Previously 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. 051
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Labbing 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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I got Mario Golf on sale. First two hours: time to make Miis of characters I work with instead of golfing. Good start for now. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I 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. 021
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 03/08/2025On a finishing trajectory for Arceus. Currently: a Munchlax eludes me. I found a Snorlax way earlier. 000
Reposted by George VuJeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 01/08/2025quite a few open roles on our unannounced projects over here - come work with me! 1010333
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025I watched streamers discover for the first time Meet the Team for Team Fortress 2 today. Time comes for us all. 000
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Apparently 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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Fantastic portrayal of Mr. Terrific in Superman. Felt like I was watching a long episode of Justice League Animated. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025It 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. 140
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Sound 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. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025One 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. 000
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Been 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. 040
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I walked into the studio one day and Patrick Stewart strolled in. 010
Reposted by George VuSabrina Fedele @sabrinafedeleaudio.bsky.social · 10/06/2025It'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... 241
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I was today years old when I discovered sushi pies exist. 110
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Went 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. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025My 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. 000
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025For 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. 120
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Lots 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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Keeping busy. Keeping being around. I learned how to send height controls to the faders on a D-Control for VCA spill group tracks. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Line 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.coma 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 ' 141
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Finally 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. 030
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025What’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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Always wanted to do more FM synthesis. Zebra is getting me to do that. Coolio. 130
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Digging 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. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025If 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. 020
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025My birthday (which isn’t today) ended being very Persona themed. Surprised my brother could find Joker merch. 010
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Ahoy! 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. 182
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 06/03/2025When 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. 060
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 28/02/2025it just hit me that I turned into the guy in the chair for the past six years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Rh...youtube.comAutotune vs real voice hilarious video !! LOL ComediHa!YouTube video by LOL ComediHa! 110
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The 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. 140
George Vu @georgevu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Voice 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. 240