Beards, Cats and Indie Game Audio

I had been trying to line this one up for awhile and it was a great fun chat to finally have. And we went long! I hope you enjoy this fun talk I had with Elise Kates, a good game audio friend from down in Seattle.As a note, I have adopted the new schedule of "when it happens" for episodes of the podcast. When I can line something up and I've got time, there will be an episode. When I'm busy, there won't. Always searching for that balance with all that I take on and have life throw at me.

Back again for a new year. Our firsts episode of 2026 is with Rev. Dr. Bradley D Meyer. Last year at GameSoundCon I managed to sit down with Brad for a conversation. End of the day we sat down outside in a sort of quiet area and talked about game audio stuff and art and guitars.

Super fun chat with sound designer Martin Kvale this month. Very glad to finally do this interview.

Gord's back again! We catch up on what's been going on since the last time Gord was on the podcast and answer a few listener questions.

My last interview from GameSoundCon 2024. I was able to sit down with Maximilien Simard-Poirier (sound designer, guitar nerd, professional French Canadian)who organizes the Interactive Audio Montreal meetups and chat about running a meetup for 7 years.https://www.interactiveaudiomontreal.com/https://youtube.com/@interactiveaudiomontreal?si=hQhWzMP2Jres-2xL

This month my guest is Bonnie Bogovich (vocal artist, audio designer, and chicken and human choir arranger). We sat down at GameSoundCon in Oct 2024 and talked about dialogue and sounds and educational games amongst other things.

Hi everyone,It's been a real long time since. But it's official, that was just a really long break and the podcast is returning in 2025. I'll be flying solo as the host (I'm sure Gord will turn up every once and awhile) and I've already got a couple interviews recorded waiting to be edited. Regular monthly episodes should start dropping mid Jan 2025. Thanks for listening and I'm very excited to be back doing this again.Matthew

Back at the podcast for 2019. We had a bit of a break to deal with life and all it can bring out side game audio. We catch up and talk about what we've been up to, games we're working on, conferences we went to, Gord having a kid and then answer some questions.

Another multi-subject podcast, we dig into the past month of our lives. Gord took a whirlwind trip to Paris to exhibit Wandersong at Indiecade Europe, while Matt went to GameSoundCon to give a talk on the Mark of the Ninja Remaser and take part in a panel on advising composers interested in getting into sound design. We discuss losing gigs that were totally-in-the-bag, working while a bit rusty, taking things one at a time during stressful period. Oh and Korean food & architecture.

Episode 51 and we dig into a bit of mid to later career growth and motivation. And general how to keep up motivation as well. And of course we dive into some questions from everyone. Also happy again to have Pro Sound Effects advertising with us again. We get into another great Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet library called Cinematic Winds that they provided to us for this ad. As part of this, PSE has been awesome enough to give us a discount code for all our listeners. If you use the code BEARDS you'll get 15% off both the Industrial Sounds With Soul or the new Stallion libraries. You can see this and all their other libraries at www.prosoundeffects.com and follow them on twitter at @prosoundeffects

This year at GDC we got another interview recorded. We sat down with Carley Nyte and chatted about a bunch of stuff. You can find her on twitter at @carlyenyte and hear her work in the next project from Camouflaj. As well this episode we're very happy to have Pro Sound Effects advertising wtih us. We give a little run down on what we think about the Industrial Sounds With Soul library from Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet. Spoiler, we like it. As part of this, PSE has been awesome enough to give us a discount code for all our listeners. If you use the code BEARDS you'll get 15% off both the Industrial Sounds With Soul or the new Stallion libraries. You can see this and all their other libraries at www.prosoundeffects.com and follow them on twitter at @prosoundeffects

Here again for episode 47. We talk about getting people on board with audio and how to communicate around that. And how to analyze reference sounds and music to give clients what they're looking for. And we answer some questions. If you're going to GDC and see this before then, we're doing a live recording of our next episode and hang out. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beards-cats-and-indie-game-audio-podcast-live-tickets-43213861824

A day late but we're still calling this the last of 2017 episodes. We talked about some random small topics this time and fielded some questions.