Vladislav Zharkov

I'm a cinematic artist, music composer and sound designer. Making animated shorts using Source Filmmaker (Source 2 nowadays) and scoring them since 2012.

I bet it feels so nice being of a nationality that nobody truly hates.

Earlier this week, I got confirmation that I don't have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and that my cortisol level is getting low. Life's good.

I don't think I'll ever be able to work on big game audio without FMOD. This thing's literally addicting. I know I'm like 20 years late, but parametric audio is just so neat.

Midnight Fight Express is a game where you can suplex Makarov from Modern Warfare 2.

I wish things were different. I wish my voice was heard, but it will never be. I'll be discriminated against, segregated, and judged until the end of days. There is pretty much nothing I can do about it.

What do you mean "too many fonts"? Who do you think you are, huh? You're a software installer, damn it! You don't need the full list of fonts I have installed. Fall back to Arial, you digital mongrel.

I'll make sure to extend the trailer song and put it on the soundtrack release.

Too old for junior, to inexperienced for middle, no shipped projects, unwanted nationality, low k/d ratio in Call of Duty. Yeah, I am never getting employed in this industry.

— Oh, this library is definitely made in England! — How can you tell?

A game I made for a jam 5 years ago was downloaded 780 times and sold 3 copies. In my book, it's a massive success, but I'd love to watch a 15-minute video on it explaining why it was a failure, and why the studio behind it (me) will soon be shut down.

🦀🦀 DMs are back! 🦀🦀

Friend streaming Stalker, sees one of the bandits pushing crates and barrels mid-gunfight, yells "Fuck you, Sam Altman, the singularity is here and it's Ukrainian!"

I don't think I'm getting my DMs back, lol. Sent an e-mail to bluesky support, they replied 12 hours later with a generic, out of context "have you tried turning it off and on again" type reply. FML.

My favorite game dev trope is when a game needs profile pictures for characters to use in briefings, documents, news, etc. so they just use raw model viewer screenshots or (more recently) test renders from the CGI contractor, with little to no editing, lol.

@support.bsky.team hey, bestie! How long does it usually take for DMs to unlock and return back to normal after getting a suspension? Had some important correspondence in there, but now all I see is "Account inactive." :(

I don't take death threats seriously. Like, what, are you coming to Moscow? Are you seriously coming to 55.76031689292464, 37.62711100026519 just to kick my ass? Nah.

I will see you all thrive, and I will see you all prosper. One way or another, you all will get through whatever struggles you're facing.

The scary strings I used in this music part aren't helping either, lmao

I find it so fucked that the closest people I vibe with are at least 700 km away from me, and the people I vibe the most with are ~10 000 km away. It suuuuuucks.

If I hear another person go "How are you so talented and still unemployed and unknown?" I'll start killing people.

I'm the sound guy.

When I tell people I'm 176 cm tall (5'9" in freedom units).

In this demo, you can hear the full stealth track, as well as snippets of suspense and combat from the first level of the game.

I rarely use Bluesky these days purely because I got an insane amount of bitches in my DMs back on Twitter dot com 😎

They kicked me out of the project.