A Shell in the Pit

👋 Got a game that needs sound? We're an employee-first studio behind the audio on 70+ shipped titles, and we're currently open to new projects. Check out our reel and give us a shout at ohhello@ashellinthepit.com if you want to collaborate! 🐙🎮👂 ashellinthepit.com #GameAudio #GameDev

💥FEB 17!!!💥 Can't wait for you all to hear our work when Among Us Story: On Guard drops! But for now... enjoy this snazzy jazz track and smattering of sounds in the trailer🎷

Caves of Qud is coming to Switch 2 as a free upgrade for Switch 1 owners + a limited physical edition from @lostincult.co.uk 🍄 Pre-order now: www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

If you're wondering if we're on sale for the Steam Autumn sale, yes...yes we are! As well as the bundle of our studio's other games like Wandersong and Chicory!! I'm overwhelmingly positive that you'll enjoy them... 😏

Grave Seasons launches March 9, 2027! 🪦🌾 Mark your calendars and prepare for the horrors - coming to Steam (PC), Xbox Series X|S, PS5 & Nintendo Switch 1 Read more about our new official launch date and see how far Ashenridge has come in this devlog! store.steampowered.com/news/app/325...

We're coming to Full Indie Summit this Sunday with an awesome batch of games we've worked on for you to play at our table 🎮🎧 @asitp-rachel.bsky.social and @snarkism.bsky.social will be around to chat! AND make sure to catch @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social's tech talk on Big Walk while you're there

This is why @emaudible.bsky.social recorded the ambiences using a quad setup! (We went with the standard and then got rid of one of the channels in the edit). She built this contraption using antennas so that it would be portable and easy to hike around with! #BigWalk #gamedev #gameaudio #indiegame

Thank you to our Gold Sponsor @ashellinthepit.com! A Shell in the Pit is an employee-first audio and trailer production studio--born from a Full Indie event! Known for their whimsical sound design, the team has contributed to 60+ games, including Big Walk & Night in the Woods. 🔗 ashellinthepit.com

A Shell in the Pit is going to Tokyo Game Show 2026! ✈️ Joey Van Alten will be on the ground to chat all things game audio & indie games (Among Us Story: On Guard, Pacific Drive, Rogue Legacy 2, & more!) 👋He'll be there from Sept 17 to Sept 21, come say hi! #TGS2026 #indiegames #gamedev #gameaudio

//FULL EPISODE: OUT NOW// 020 - Big Walk ( @househouse.com ) with Em Halberstadt ( @emaudible.bsky.social ) and Nicholas Zhang ( @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social ) from @ashellinthepit.com 🔗: linktr.ee/audiologs.po... #audiologs #gameaudio #podcast #bigwalk #indiegame

After we stopped recording this episode Mike and I both basically went 'well that's the most useful episode of this show we've ever recorded' hahaha.

Sometimes it's the little things that really go a long way 🐦 @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social talks about how ambient scatters (like birds, frogs, and other critters) are meticulously placed and synchronized across networks for Big Walk #BigWalk #GameAudio

📣 If you had fun watching the Behind the Sound of Big Walk stream and want to see more, we have a buuunch of other videos from other games and other team members that you can watch in our Game Audio Deep Dives playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Learn how to apply permaculture concepts to studio sustainability in last year's Full Indie Summit talk from @asitp-gord.bsky.social! Gordon McGladdery is the founder of A Shell in the Pit, the team behind the sound of many titles, such as Big Walk, Chicory, and more 🎵 📺 youtu.be/St6FhII1zEk

People keep commenting on this on instagram to let us know that you can also rub your hand on glass and it makes a squeak 😂 Funny how much that one little detail is getting noticed.. but sound has so much influence in making games feel like real life! Give your sound designers the freedom to do this

Thank you for joining us for the stream yesterday 😊 We're so grateful for all the questions that came in and are genuinely touched by the excitement over all the little things that have to do with audio In case you missed it, you can watch the VOD here: youtu.be/xW3a0gp0Ngc

And we are live with our Behind the Sound stream of Big Walk! Come guess what objects we used to record these things 🤓 www.twitch.tv/ashellinthep... #BehindtheSound #GameAudio #BigWalk

Going live in 1 hour!

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It has been super cool to work on this project alongside @cjsaudio.bsky.social, Joey and the devs. It's a blast to play the game, literally since yo get to shoot and destroy som much stuff 😂 Go check it out!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! Dogpile is live on YOUR (probably) mobile device and YOUR (definitely) Nintendo Switch. Get it, check it out, enjoy it.

Keep your ears perked for a Behind the Sound of Big Walk stream!!! 🔴🟡🔵 @emaudible.bsky.social & @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social will be walkin' and talkin' about their audio journey in development with @househouse.com and answering YOUR questions live! Aug 21 @ 3pm PST at twitch.tv/ashellinthepittv

BEASTIEBALL MAJOR UPDATE TODAY! ✅ Trading ✅ New Area ✅ New Music ✅ New side content ✅ More animated Beasties To celebrate, we’re on today’s Steam Daily deal for 20% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1864950/Beastieball/

We've been working on Cuttle for ~10 years, first on Fantastic Contraption (2016) when the 3rd party binaural plugin/middleware/platform integrations were in acquisition & deprecation chaos; rolling our own was the only solution. The first iteration was made by Maris Tammik & was called "Moona".

What the heck is all that...

We're excited to be participating in the Summer of Screams event put together by our friends at Gun interactive 👁️ Grab the Whispers Edition of Pacific Drive for 60% off now: store.steampowered.com/app/1458140/...

No middleware! Big Walk's sound is implemented using our custom tool-set @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social made himself, called Cuttle. We use it often so check it out if you're interested! 😉 ashellinthepit.com/content/cutt...

Day 3 at BIC! Bye bye Busan! See you again soon 👋 #indiegames #gamedev #gameaudio #BIC2026

I've spent so much of this game yelling back and forth with my partner just to hear the echoes. It rules <3

The audio in this game is masterful

Day 2 at BIC! Still failing to adjust to the time difference 💤 and time is flying by! So many fun things along the way! 👾 If you see me in this T-shirt tomorrow, please come say hi! Haha #indiegames #gamedev #gameaudio #BIC2026

In Big Walk the environment can affect your voice in many different ways! All of this incredible technical work is thanks to @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social, who created entire systems from scratch for occlusion, dynamic reverb, echoes, the radio and megaphone, soundproofing, and lots more. 👂🤓

IMHO lots of the technical audio @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social did for Big Walk is nothing short of revolutionary (with endless thanks to @househouse.com for the freedom). I'm sure we'll be talking more about it soon!

Day 1 at BIC! Wow wow!! So many games to play, and we’re only on Day 1 👾 #indiegames #gamedev #gameaudio #BIC2026

I was also able to try many wonderful games by the folks from Wildfire Game, @lidlocks.bsky.social, Momo-Pi Studio, @kotgeastroworks.bsky.social, and Banjihagames

What a wonderful talk with Ariel Manzur from the Godot Foundation about the importance of open source and the challenges that Godot sometimes faces.

#BIC2026 thread! Such a cool venue and lots of wonderful games to try out!