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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really appreciate that! Also please do not mention him, I'm worried if enough people think about him at once he will gain sentience and try to drink my eyeball fluid

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So grateful to have been invited to speak at Stanford alongside @akashthakkar.com ! The folks at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics were some of the most enthusiastic, inventive people I've ever met. Can't wait to go back!

Selfie of me (Ryan Ike) and my co speaker (Akash Thakkar) about to give a talk to some Stanford University students, with the audience featured behind us.

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I'm gonna be a guest speaker at @playtopia.bsky.social this Friday in Cape Town, South Africa! My talk "Don't: How Not To Work In Game Audio" is mostly a list of all whoopsies I did in my early career and tips on how to avoid them. It's "Don't Be Like Me: The Presentation" lol.

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

At PAX? Interested in game audio? Come by!

Graphic advertising my panel at PAX West.

Speakers: Ryan Ike and Akash Thakkar

Where: Firebird Theater, Summit Bldg., Level 5

When: Sunday, Aug 31st, 2:30-3:30pm

What: A panel on the things about working in game audio that few people publicly talk about.

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Man, Clair Obscur has so many little quality of life things I now never want to go without. For example, the way recovery items work like Estus flasks means I use them all the time instead of hoarding them for a boss I never end up spending them on.

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I just want a love like they have someday, I want a buddy who will carry me around in a backpack is that so much to ask

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Pretty sure if my graduate advisor knew this was what I was doing with my degree he'd come to my house and kill me with a pitchfork

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Sinners was so fucking good. I was expecting a fun vampire time, I was not expecting a movie with so much amazing stuff to say about what it means to make music, and what music can do. All the performances were out of control.

Picture of Preacher Boy (Miles Caton), one of the lead characters from Sinners, holding a guitar and smiling

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

if you don't want to crack this bad boy open ad down it in one shot you're a cop

Pile of bath bombs shaped like golden eggs which, I can only assume, are filled with the most Delectable Cream

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I think one of my fav things that happened at GDC this year was chatting with my fellow panelists before our talk and all of us agreeing that we have the same urge to eat the bath bombs at Lush

Picture of a variety of Lush bath bombs. A few of them are actually shaped like foods (macarons, sticky buns, etc) but all of them look delicious regardless

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I had an amazing time at #gdc meeting up with old friends, making new ones, giving a talk, and generally soaking up the energy of this incredible, creative community, but you'll have to extrapolate all that from the only photo I remembered to take

Picture of a really good fried chicken sandwich I ate. Noticeably absent: literally any aspect of GDC

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Come listen to us talk at our talk where we'll talk about talking

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Very happy to be speaking at GDC again this year, with some very cool people. You should stop by, we'll have good advice (yes), industry horror stories (probably) and caramel apples (no).

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Had a great time guesting on the @gameengineering.bsky.social Podcast recently! We talked about a lot of stuff, including how working as an artist means a single easily-misinterpreted word can explode your whole day

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'll be at GDC for the first time since COVID hit and no I'm not starved for human interaction why would you say that anyway let's hang out

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

One of my favorite things a story can do is have multiple encounters with the villain before the final confrontation. Let you get to know them, build some stakes. Reading The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi by @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social right now and she's awesome at doing this

The cover image of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty. Features a pirate ship tangled in the tentacles of a kraken-like creature.

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Mai and/or Classic Controls practice is coming along. I got Cammy to Master on Modern controls last year, so dropping combos all the time is definitely something to get used to again, but still, progress! #StreetFighter

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Sadly, the recorder app I mumble into when I'm brainstorming captures my creative process perfectly, roast my ass

Screenshot of my recorder app attempting to dictate the stuff I ramble into it when I'm trying to think up musical ideas.

It says:

"00:26
16th note or so, so it's like?

00:39
And then, for the. Melody, I'm thinking, like? One there and a two. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, three.

01:12
Did?"

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Ryan Ike @ryanikeaudio.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Current #StreetFighter6 goal is to learn Mai and get good at classic controls. Did half my placements today and it's going fine, haha, don't worry about it