John Stolzle
@ambientartstyles.bsky.social
Interactive Sound /w Ssun Games
& DreamMatterLabs🎮
Stay awhile and listen🕯️⤵️
AmbientArtstyles.com
🙏Wishlist Light Odyssey on Steam, it's a beautiful boss rush: https://s.team/a/1902860/
🙏Wishlist ONEiRA and explore: https://s.team/a/3521080/
& DreamMatterLabs🎮
Stay awhile and listen🕯️⤵️
AmbientArtstyles.com
🙏Wishlist Light Odyssey on Steam, it's a beautiful boss rush: https://s.team/a/1902860/
🙏Wishlist ONEiRA and explore: https://s.team/a/3521080/
Wow #Busan, your #fireworks festival was absolutely magical. The artistry was next level.
It would have given Gandalf a run for his money. 🧙♂️✨🎇
gamsahamnida🙏
It would have given Gandalf a run for his money. 🧙♂️✨🎇
gamsahamnida🙏
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Wow #Busan, your #fireworks festival was absolutely magical. The artistry was next level.
It would have given Gandalf a run for his money. 🧙♂️✨🎇
gamsahamnida🙏
It would have given Gandalf a run for his money. 🧙♂️✨🎇
gamsahamnida🙏
Game development is a grind but moments like this make it feel like a dream of dreams. Couldn't be more proud to be a member of @teamssun.bsky.social. Our adventure continues as Light Odyssey comes to life.✨
#indiegames #gamedev #gstar #gstar2025
ps. Check us out on steam 😸 link in bio.
#indiegames #gamedev #gstar #gstar2025
ps. Check us out on steam 😸 link in bio.
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Game development is a grind but moments like this make it feel like a dream of dreams. Couldn't be more proud to be a member of @teamssun.bsky.social. Our adventure continues as Light Odyssey comes to life.✨
#indiegames #gamedev #gstar #gstar2025
ps. Check us out on steam 😸 link in bio.
#indiegames #gamedev #gstar #gstar2025
ps. Check us out on steam 😸 link in bio.
May the odds be ever in your favor, Junior devs.
But really, can we take a moment as an industry to talk about what "Junior" means in the context of game development. It's quite a broad category.
larian.com/careers/9722...
#gameaudio #gamedev #gamejobs
But really, can we take a moment as an industry to talk about what "Junior" means in the context of game development. It's quite a broad category.
larian.com/careers/9722...
#gameaudio #gamedev #gamejobs
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
May the odds be ever in your favor, Junior devs.
But really, can we take a moment as an industry to talk about what "Junior" means in the context of game development. It's quite a broad category.
larian.com/careers/9722...
#gameaudio #gamedev #gamejobs
But really, can we take a moment as an industry to talk about what "Junior" means in the context of game development. It's quite a broad category.
larian.com/careers/9722...
#gameaudio #gamedev #gamejobs
Reposted by John Stolzle
Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Friendly tip for folks. My discord got hacked yesterday and my computer was acting funky ever since. Turns out it was malware installed through a blender file I bought as part of an asset pack on CG Trader. I didn’t know blender files were being used this way, but I figured I’d spread the word.
I am a jet lagged zombie on a Train to Busan and couldn't be more joyed to be fulfilling a role in this literal zombie dream. 📽️🧟♂️🚅
The wooshes as we pass other bullet trains are spectacular.
- Check out Train to Busan for one of the greatest zombie movies ever. It packs a wallop.
The wooshes as we pass other bullet trains are spectacular.
- Check out Train to Busan for one of the greatest zombie movies ever. It packs a wallop.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I am a jet lagged zombie on a Train to Busan and couldn't be more joyed to be fulfilling a role in this literal zombie dream. 📽️🧟♂️🚅
The wooshes as we pass other bullet trains are spectacular.
- Check out Train to Busan for one of the greatest zombie movies ever. It packs a wallop.
The wooshes as we pass other bullet trains are spectacular.
- Check out Train to Busan for one of the greatest zombie movies ever. It packs a wallop.
Headed to G-star🎮🎊🗣️ and got all the snacks for my team in Korea, bigger and better! ...but the next question is, will it all fit? 🇺🇸✈️🇰🇷
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Headed to G-star🎮🎊🗣️ and got all the snacks for my team in Korea, bigger and better! ...but the next question is, will it all fit? 🇺🇸✈️🇰🇷
Reposted by John Stolzle
Blog Roundup (November 2, 2025)
Blog Roundup (November 2, 2025)
I haven’t done one of these in a while! I really need to do non-roundup posts but I like pointing people to other websites that I like since it maybe makes the internet feel a tiny bit less small? Anyway, if you see something you like, consider adding the site to your RSS feed reader. […]
virtualmoose.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Blog Roundup (November 2, 2025)
What's your favorite scary ~movie~ Game OST?
The Diablo 1 album creeped me out as a kid and still gets me years later.👺👹🐐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKl...
Stay awhile and listen🕯️
🎃👻🦇Halloween is Today!🦇👻🎃
#Halloween #gameaudio
The Diablo 1 album creeped me out as a kid and still gets me years later.👺👹🐐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKl...
Stay awhile and listen🕯️
🎃👻🦇Halloween is Today!🦇👻🎃
#Halloween #gameaudio
Diablo + Hellfire [COMPLETE OST ~ HIGH QUALITY]
YouTube video by Soundtrack Games
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
What's your favorite scary ~movie~ Game OST?
The Diablo 1 album creeped me out as a kid and still gets me years later.👺👹🐐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKl...
Stay awhile and listen🕯️
🎃👻🦇Halloween is Today!🦇👻🎃
#Halloween #gameaudio
The Diablo 1 album creeped me out as a kid and still gets me years later.👺👹🐐
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kKl...
Stay awhile and listen🕯️
🎃👻🦇Halloween is Today!🦇👻🎃
#Halloween #gameaudio
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula
In good Halloween form, our likeness, data, & employment history is going deeper into the maw of big data..not that it hasn't been there for awhile.🤷
Wish I could opt out of LinkedIn. But Imo it's worth un-checking a box so that they minimize the use of your data.
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Wish I could opt out of LinkedIn. But Imo it's worth un-checking a box so that they minimize the use of your data.
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In good Halloween form, our likeness, data, & employment history is going deeper into the maw of big data..not that it hasn't been there for awhile.🤷
Wish I could opt out of LinkedIn. But Imo it's worth un-checking a box so that they minimize the use of your data.
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Wish I could opt out of LinkedIn. But Imo it's worth un-checking a box so that they minimize the use of your data.
www.linkedin.com/mypreference...
Tomorrow is Halloween!
Don't let the title fool you, the Chapel of Skorm, from Fable is some top tier creepy music for the season.
youtu.be/9_9_HxGl844?...
#halloween #gameaudio
Don't let the title fool you, the Chapel of Skorm, from Fable is some top tier creepy music for the season.
youtu.be/9_9_HxGl844?...
#halloween #gameaudio
Fable 1, 2 and 3's Most Peaceful and Calm Songs (Albions Greatest Hit's)
YouTube video by Loopy Longplays
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Tomorrow is Halloween!
Don't let the title fool you, the Chapel of Skorm, from Fable is some top tier creepy music for the season.
youtu.be/9_9_HxGl844?...
#halloween #gameaudio
Don't let the title fool you, the Chapel of Skorm, from Fable is some top tier creepy music for the season.
youtu.be/9_9_HxGl844?...
#halloween #gameaudio
Halloween is 2 days away, and it's a perfect time to throw on the D2 OST.👹🎃🦇🔊📈
I began D2 at the end of the era of SOJ currency and ended sometime after the Rust Storm when Anni Charms were being circulated. youtu.be/0nflBqFCtFs?...
Any zons or cold sorcs in the crowd?🏹❄
#gameaudio #halloween
I began D2 at the end of the era of SOJ currency and ended sometime after the Rust Storm when Anni Charms were being circulated. youtu.be/0nflBqFCtFs?...
Any zons or cold sorcs in the crowd?🏹❄
#gameaudio #halloween
Diablo 2 Resurrected Soundtrack / OST (final)
YouTube video by Salim Müller
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Halloween is 2 days away, and it's a perfect time to throw on the D2 OST.👹🎃🦇🔊📈
I began D2 at the end of the era of SOJ currency and ended sometime after the Rust Storm when Anni Charms were being circulated. youtu.be/0nflBqFCtFs?...
Any zons or cold sorcs in the crowd?🏹❄
#gameaudio #halloween
I began D2 at the end of the era of SOJ currency and ended sometime after the Rust Storm when Anni Charms were being circulated. youtu.be/0nflBqFCtFs?...
Any zons or cold sorcs in the crowd?🏹❄
#gameaudio #halloween
And then Halloween was merely 3 days away.
👻The 1977 Suspira ost by the Italian band Goblin is ridiculously good. It's creepy af to start, turns into the jammiest of groovy jams later on, and ends creepy. Definitely worth a spooky season listen.👺👻😱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Icj...
#Halloween
👻The 1977 Suspira ost by the Italian band Goblin is ridiculously good. It's creepy af to start, turns into the jammiest of groovy jams later on, and ends creepy. Definitely worth a spooky season listen.👺👻😱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Icj...
#Halloween
Suspiria - Soundtrack - Full Album (1977)
YouTube video by mytangoinparis
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
And then Halloween was merely 3 days away.
👻The 1977 Suspira ost by the Italian band Goblin is ridiculously good. It's creepy af to start, turns into the jammiest of groovy jams later on, and ends creepy. Definitely worth a spooky season listen.👺👻😱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Icj...
#Halloween
👻The 1977 Suspira ost by the Italian band Goblin is ridiculously good. It's creepy af to start, turns into the jammiest of groovy jams later on, and ends creepy. Definitely worth a spooky season listen.👺👻😱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Icj...
#Halloween
T’was 4 days til' Halloween!
🎃👑Pop this one on👻🍂 through and through, it's a solid revisit. One of the best Halloweeny soundtracks of all time. 👑🎃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Muz...
#halloween
🎃👑Pop this one on👻🍂 through and through, it's a solid revisit. One of the best Halloweeny soundtracks of all time. 👑🎃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Muz...
#halloween
The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
YouTube video by BEST SOUNDTRACKS
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
T’was 4 days til' Halloween!
🎃👑Pop this one on👻🍂 through and through, it's a solid revisit. One of the best Halloweeny soundtracks of all time. 👑🎃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Muz...
#halloween
🎃👑Pop this one on👻🍂 through and through, it's a solid revisit. One of the best Halloweeny soundtracks of all time. 👑🎃
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Muz...
#halloween
Reposted by John Stolzle
Graduate Audio Designer role at Frontier! Come work with our linear design team, they're incredible 🔊
Frontier Developments - Graduate Audio Designer (Creative Services)
WHAT’S THE ROLE? We’re looking for a Graduate Audio Designer to join our Creative Services Audio team. The Creative Services team provides support for publishing, community and studio facing content s...
jobs.eu.lever.co
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Graduate Audio Designer role at Frontier! Come work with our linear design team, they're incredible 🔊
KISS your design. Build with simple well formed blocks, test by subtraction.
Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.
Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team. 📣📋
(keep it stupid simple)
Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.
Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team. 📣📋
(keep it stupid simple)
What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
KISS your design. Build with simple well formed blocks, test by subtraction.
Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.
Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team. 📣📋
(keep it stupid simple)
Make it feel good, sound good, and fun. But always remember to KISS your work when done.
Prioritize teammates, prioritize people. Refine the seam and customize process for your team. 📣📋
(keep it stupid simple)
preach it🔥.
In the sound field, we make audio for an audience that listens on earbuds, gamer headphones, studio monitors, 5.1 setups, TVs, laptops. Multi mixing helps, but it is critically important to listen and assess work on different speakers throughout the creative process.
In the sound field, we make audio for an audience that listens on earbuds, gamer headphones, studio monitors, 5.1 setups, TVs, laptops. Multi mixing helps, but it is critically important to listen and assess work on different speakers throughout the creative process.
God, this. I remember when our Art Director went on a campaign to calibrate every monitor in the building, so we were all seeing the same colors.
Tilting at windmills, man.
Way better to just check your work on a variety of devices.
Tilting at windmills, man.
Way better to just check your work on a variety of devices.
Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
preach it🔥.
In the sound field, we make audio for an audience that listens on earbuds, gamer headphones, studio monitors, 5.1 setups, TVs, laptops. Multi mixing helps, but it is critically important to listen and assess work on different speakers throughout the creative process.
In the sound field, we make audio for an audience that listens on earbuds, gamer headphones, studio monitors, 5.1 setups, TVs, laptops. Multi mixing helps, but it is critically important to listen and assess work on different speakers throughout the creative process.
Reposted by John Stolzle
Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at #GameSoundCon this year about the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei. I'm really excited about this talk and am so proud of these systems that the team built.
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...
Ghost of Yōtei talk at GameSoundCon 2025
Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at GameSoundCon this year about some of the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei
bradleymeyer.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Our lead sound designer, Josh Lord, and I are giving a talk at #GameSoundCon this year about the audio system improvements we crafted for Ghost of Yōtei. I'm really excited about this talk and am so proud of these systems that the team built.
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...
bradleymeyer.com/wp-core/2025...
Reposted by John Stolzle
The Light Odyssey demo is OUT NOW!
📅 October 13-20
🌌 Steam: bit.ly/40Kd69J
It will be up for a week so come try it out! Start your odyssey, face the first three colossi, and tell us your thoughts! 😊
#SteamNextFest #IndieGame #GameDev #LightOdyssey
📅 October 13-20
🌌 Steam: bit.ly/40Kd69J
It will be up for a week so come try it out! Start your odyssey, face the first three colossi, and tell us your thoughts! 😊
#SteamNextFest #IndieGame #GameDev #LightOdyssey
October 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Light Odyssey demo is OUT NOW!
📅 October 13-20
🌌 Steam: bit.ly/40Kd69J
It will be up for a week so come try it out! Start your odyssey, face the first three colossi, and tell us your thoughts! 😊
#SteamNextFest #IndieGame #GameDev #LightOdyssey
📅 October 13-20
🌌 Steam: bit.ly/40Kd69J
It will be up for a week so come try it out! Start your odyssey, face the first three colossi, and tell us your thoughts! 😊
#SteamNextFest #IndieGame #GameDev #LightOdyssey
Reposted by John Stolzle
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
October 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The frogs have landed in Chicago!
Reposted by John Stolzle
The whole gang's back together!
We finally reworked all the character sprites of ONEiRA's first dreamscape! And this time, they have legs! 🦵😱🦵
#IndieGame #GameDev #FollowFriday
We finally reworked all the character sprites of ONEiRA's first dreamscape! And this time, they have legs! 🦵😱🦵
#IndieGame #GameDev #FollowFriday
October 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The whole gang's back together!
We finally reworked all the character sprites of ONEiRA's first dreamscape! And this time, they have legs! 🦵😱🦵
#IndieGame #GameDev #FollowFriday
We finally reworked all the character sprites of ONEiRA's first dreamscape! And this time, they have legs! 🦵😱🦵
#IndieGame #GameDev #FollowFriday
Oh GDC, I hardly knew ye. 👋
Given costs&funding I've never been, but it does feel like the cool club is trying to make fetch happen💸.
#gamedev, I'm curious if any other multi-regional game dev conferences are gaining traction & heating up🔭🕵️?
ps. #gdc, no please don't sell my personal information.
Given costs&funding I've never been, but it does feel like the cool club is trying to make fetch happen💸.
#gamedev, I'm curious if any other multi-regional game dev conferences are gaining traction & heating up🔭🕵️?
ps. #gdc, no please don't sell my personal information.
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Reposted by John Stolzle
Light Odyssey is joining #SteamNextFest
📅 October 13-20
🌌 bit.ly/44Refii
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to play the demo straight from your Steam library! Wishlist now to get notified! 🚨
#IndieGames #GameDev #LightOdyssey
📅 October 13-20
🌌 bit.ly/44Refii
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to play the demo straight from your Steam library! Wishlist now to get notified! 🚨
#IndieGames #GameDev #LightOdyssey
October 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Light Odyssey is joining #SteamNextFest
📅 October 13-20
🌌 bit.ly/44Refii
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to play the demo straight from your Steam library! Wishlist now to get notified! 🚨
#IndieGames #GameDev #LightOdyssey
📅 October 13-20
🌌 bit.ly/44Refii
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to play the demo straight from your Steam library! Wishlist now to get notified! 🚨
#IndieGames #GameDev #LightOdyssey
Reposted by John Stolzle
A moment of recognition to all you solo indie game devs silently grinding it out. Sacrificing fun and socializing in pursuit of a dream and a goal. Worrying if it's good enough. Sweating the small stuff. One night at a time. Respect. You'll get there. #gamedev #IndieGameDev
a man in a blue shirt says respect in front of a blurry background
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says respect in front of a blurry background
media.tenor.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A moment of recognition to all you solo indie game devs silently grinding it out. Sacrificing fun and socializing in pursuit of a dream and a goal. Worrying if it's good enough. Sweating the small stuff. One night at a time. Respect. You'll get there. #gamedev #IndieGameDev
🦇👻Spooky Season Has Arrived [in Colorado]🎃🦑I start the season based on when the first 'Spirit Halloween' pop-up store opens...Each year it's earlier; this year it's Sept 3.
All that boils down to🎧 Creepy game OSTs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfl...
If you see this #gameaudio, send me your favorite 🙏
All that boils down to🎧 Creepy game OSTs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfl...
If you see this #gameaudio, send me your favorite 🙏
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
🦇👻Spooky Season Has Arrived [in Colorado]🎃🦑I start the season based on when the first 'Spirit Halloween' pop-up store opens...Each year it's earlier; this year it's Sept 3.
All that boils down to🎧 Creepy game OSTs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfl...
If you see this #gameaudio, send me your favorite 🙏
All that boils down to🎧 Creepy game OSTs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfl...
If you see this #gameaudio, send me your favorite 🙏