Megan Carnes 🎃👻

Megan Carnes 🎃👻

@magmacranes.bsky.social

Composer for 🎬 & 🎮 & more: Shouting Down Midnight, This Is Desmondo Ray!, Noclip, _starweaver_, and a lot more Music Implementer: The Lamplighters League 🎶 game dev making Divinuet Chicagoan, she/her megancarnesmusic.com taplink.cc/freshfromthecoven

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learning that the legendary "creator's wife with mobility loss" who everyone says ~inspired~ Dressmaker is in fact a co creator and developer for the game and also they are not even married

I am going to hum the melody of the main theme of Divinuet and have one note of it play whenever you hover over a main menu button! Okay now I announced it publicly so I actually have to do it instead of getting too self conscious about how my voice sounds, thank you all for witnessing this

I was about to add a caveat to this like, “well, I guess I like coding” but then I realized the Divinuet coding I enjoyed doing was making sure all the Wwise events and states fired at the right time and setting up Wwise callbacks so visual stuff in the game would happen in time with the music

Megan Carnes 🎃👻@magmacranes.bsky.social

I love writing interactive music and I occasionally have an idea for a game* that I'm excited about so I make it and I have so much fun writing the music and doing the audio implementation and I suffer through everything else *vehicle for me to do ridiculously complex interactive music things

I love writing interactive music and I occasionally have an idea for a game* that I'm excited about so I make it and I have so much fun writing the music and doing the audio implementation and I suffer through everything else *vehicle for me to do ridiculously complex interactive music things

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i'll be ending the year on x3 kickass projects & currently plotting to ring in the new year with even MORE do you kick ass? do you want your project's sound to kick so much ass it blasts into the stratosphere? reach out & let's chat launching next year's plans for stratospheric_ass_kick_v1.wav!

My books are open for more freelance projects! Need someone for: - sound design - sound effects editing - dialogue editing/clean up - mixing --on your game, animation, film, doc, short or yt vid? Email cathryn @ deltaexmachina . com & let's beep boop 🦾✨ #sounddesign #gameaudio #animation #film

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lotta feelings when a game that the composer who SAed me worked on is announced. I didn’t name them publicly (which I still think was the right call), so I don’t blame the people who hired them for not knowing! But it’s just so unfair (and common) that abusers thrive while their victims struggle.

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I believe in restorative justice, but this is not that, because the person never publicly admitted it was them, so people can’t decide for themselves if they’re safe be around. Part of me always hoped that they’d come forward, bc I want to believe the best of people. Maybe they’d try to do better

But no. It’s clear now that this isn’t a good person who made a mistake. Instead they fly under the radar and continue to work, while I struggle to find jobs. Such a familiar story tbh, and idk what to do about it exactly, but if you’ve dealt with the same thing just know you’re not alone 💚

Lotta feelings when a game that the composer who SAed me worked on is announced. I didn’t name them publicly (which I still think was the right call), so I don’t blame the people who hired them for not knowing! But it’s just so unfair (and common) that abusers thrive while their victims struggle.

It’s really only been this past year that I’ve finally felt healed enough to start putting myself out there and participating in game dev communities in a meaningful way again. 3 years spent essentially hiding away while their career kept growing. Idk what the point of this is except that it sucks!

For no particular reason I am thinking about how I recently heard a young person say that they want to get into the animation industry, but if that doesn't work out they'll go for something more stable like video games

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I wonder how much more engaging this place would be if the skew of posts was flipped to “stuff I love & want to share” over “stuff that pisses me off” 🤔

Everyone knows Bluesky’s one and only job is to entertain me and my feed is decidedly not doing that right now! Reply to this post with a story of something funny your pet has done recently

Earlier today I was in the kitchen making my lunch and my two cats were of course in there staring at me. My husband asked them if they were under the impression that they’d be getting some food too and Ramona replied with a meow that sounded like “yeah!”

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the desire for cozy & wholesome art is fine. enjoy your Thomas Kinkade paintings, whatever, but leave people who like other things alone. it's not ~male-coded~ to like challenging art, and cozy frictionless things are not ~for women~. it's crazy how gender essentialist this all gets

*book hotel for GDC* *hear news that GDC is only Mon-Thurs instead of Mon-Fri this year* *go to check if I can change my hotel reservation to leave a day earlier* “Sure! That’ll be $2000 instead of $500” ????? Guess I’m staying an extra day lmao

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Replying to @bryantfrancis.me

This has been a thing for years. Studios will have like 4 FTEs who get all the benefits the studio brags about publicly, the core clique who were hired first, and then 200 contractors or outsourcers who make minimum wage and no benefits, to be laid off in waves every 6-18 months.

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It's finally out!! I wrote some new music for a certain new storyline... you'll know it when you see it 😈

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I got an email at 4:00am that they had reached a tentative agreement at 3:45am, so the strike is off! The negotiating team are braver than the troops They also got us a much better contract than what CCC initially offered. Unions are cool

Adding myself whispering “I purposely made this corny, this isn’t me trying to be serious” super low in the mix of my newest track so that people subconsciously pick up on the fact that I purposely made the track corny and it’s not me trying to be serious

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To get personal for a moment: Losing my house set Deductopia back a full year. But settlements won't compensate me because I can't prove that Deductopia would have made money. Buying Deductopia when it comes out will help prove my job is real work. store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/...

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I’m always afraid to post anything about Divinuet being nearly done, for fear of jinxing it. But I truly am getting so close, which feels so surreal after 7 years of working on it! Release date announcement soon, I think 👁️

A guy on the train didn’t realize he was playing sad harmonica music loudly through his phone speakers instead of his headphones and another dude pointed it out to him and then we all had a nice little giggle about it. This is what people mean when they talk about dangerous Chicago public transit