Jay Steen

You know you’ve “made it” when

You just know that when a mathematician says “so then by extension” what follows will be something physically inconceivable

My short summary of The Odyssey (2026): Zendaya judges Matt Damon for three or so hours

Another awesome day at #GDC26 capped off with the Audio Programmer dinner, what a lovely crew! Also shout out to the field recording talks, the performance microtalks and the Battlefield 6 talks this afternoon, they were fantastic 🧑‍🎓🙌 #GameAudioGDC

Let’s go SweejTech at #GDC26 #GameAudioGDC! Already had a great catchup with @eaboissiere.bsky.social and bumped into Charlie Pateman and Adele Cutting boarding the flight… what a coincidence 😅 It’s going to be a great week, give me a shout if you want to say hi or catch up over a coffee 🙌 🔊

Damian is a hero for putting this together!! #GameAudioGDC

Here is a talk about Unreal Audio’s code and how we use it to make cool stuff! Check it out if that’s the sort of thing you do 🔊🎚️☝️

One for you @tubanat.bsky.social

Woah, what a curveball ⚾

That’s a wrap on #UnrealFest Orlando 2025! It’s been an awesome week. Thank you to everyone who made it special, who came to my talk and everyone I spoke with. Let’s go build awesome #GameAudio stuff now! ✨🌴🍊🎮🔊

Live on the expo floor at #UnrealFest, it’s @sweej.tech! Shout out to @tapes.club and @avg-music.bsky.social for helping me implement a Lydian Mode Dubstep Gun inside our demo 😅

🌅 Rise and shine #UnrealFest! Come on over to North Session Room 2 at 9am to catch Amplifying the Unreal Audio Engine with Extensions and Plugins to hear about how we’re doing just that at SweejTech! See you there! ✨

Tech check time at #UnrealFest 🤩 the setup is truly under way… You can catch my talk Amplifying the Unreal Audio Engine With Extensions and Plugins 🔊🎛️🎚️🆙 on Wednesday, 9am at North Session Room 2. See you there Unreal #GameAudio crew!

Time to fly! ✈️ See you soon #UnrealFest and #GameAudio crew

📢🎧 Hey #GameAudio folks! If you're going to be at #UnrealFest Orlando in a couple of weeks, come along Wednesday 4th at 9am and catch my talk about how to get the best of Unreal Audio: 🔊 Amplifying the Unreal Audio Engine With Extensions and Plugins 🔊 Looking forward to seeing you there 🙌

🚪+ 🔊 = ⁉️ #GameAudio

Only just woke up from my post #GDC2025 stupor and changed my display name back to normal. Soon is in the past! Back to making cool audio tech 🤖

Friday at #GDC2025 was over in a flash and with it the whole thing. Thank you to everyone from the amazing #GameAudioGDC contingent, I am equal parts inspired and exhausted. Can’t wait to catch up with you all again soon and hear what we all are about to get up to! #GameAudio

Bonus #FullyOperationalBattleStation moments #GameAudioGDC 😄

Super Thursday at #GDC2025. So many awesome talks, many with an Ambiencey flavour - in the spirit of the #GANG awards I can’t decide on a winner, it’s a tie 🏆 have a fun Friday, nearly home time #GameAudioGDC 😢

Wow Wednesday of #GDC2025 was so packed with #GameAudio awesomeness, from @schmid.dk’s Cocoon talk to a vibrant audio programmer meet-up in the evening, so much so that I overslept this morning 😴😅 roll on Thursday! #GameAudioGDC

Another fine #GDC2025 Tuesday was had yesterday, including brilliant talks at the audio summit and my first #GameAudioGDC karaoke! 🎤🤩 there are some amazing talks lined up for today, looking forward to catching them and talking to more awesome #GameAudio folks!

Monday at #GDC2025 was a blast, thanks everyone who I met and caught up with for making it so! Roll on Tuesday, looking forward to the Audio Summit ✨ #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC

Morning #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC! On my way to the first audio meetup (a wee bit late sorry @damiankastbauer.bsky.social 😅) Looking forward to meeting everyone! If you want to talk Metasounds, audio tools and audio coding, I’m all ears 😁

@tubanat.bsky.social this one’s for you

Badge? ☑️ Coffee? ☑️ Excite? ☑️ See you round this week #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC! If you still have some time in your schedule, let me know, it’d be great to talk 🙂

The Death Star Bar. It calls to me from my hotel room window #GDC2025 #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC #FullyOperationalBattleStation

Plane time, #GDC2025 let’s gooooo #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC

Phew, just in the nick of time for #GDC25 #GDC2025 😅 If you want to hear more or see it in action next week, drop me a line ✨🌳🍃🔉 See you there #GameAudio #GameAudioGDC!

Ah jeez I better start packing for #GDC25 it’s not that many days til plane time

Eek #GDC25 is less than a month away! Looking forward to catching up with all the awesome #GameAudio folks I’ve met there before, and meeting some new folks too 🤩

Check out the awesome Ambience workflow we're cooking at SweejTech! 🌳🐦🔊 If you want a demo at GDC next month, DM me and we'll book a time in 🗓️🌉

Playing Frostpunk 2 as it starts to snow outside, awesome

To everyone who doesn’t know what day of the week it is, I wish you a very Merry Isthmus

Crimbo needs to make a comeback. Merry Crimbo everyone

Pure luxury: underfloor heating in a bathroom

Oh, true!

Yeah, that's London alright

After a really depressing patch of studio closures this year, The Game Awards reveals are really lifting my spirits and bringing a bit of joy and excitement back into my view of the industry. A good reminder that many awesome people are still working on many awesome games 🙌

Ok let me try again Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Audio programmer: The cup is routed to the main submix at -6.02dBFS

Oh dear now I want to go to these very liminal places. Or at least make a video game set there.

🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

Less talk of “Posting” on here, more of “BSing” please

Snagged an Audio Pass for #GDC25, looking forward to catching up with #gameaudio folks next year and nerding out about Metasounds, audio programming and all the cool stuff we’re doing at @sweejtech.bsky.social 🤩

HDR is great for making mixes hang together! It’s been great developing our UE5 HDR Audio plugin so you can do the same thing with MetaSounds 🎛️📈📉🎚️🔉🔊 sweej.tech/technologies...