Do the Final Girl Hands from the White Knuckle Halloween update look familiar to anyone else? (this is so cool and awesome!!!!!!)
Jack Folkner
@diplodocus03.bsky.social
He/ Him - Composer/ sound designer/ trailers/ screaming at Holly for White Knuckle. Allegedly will post about gunpla. SOMETIMES I play MTG but don't tell anyone. Hear my work here -> https://jackfolkner.bandcamp.com/ || https://noonenowhere.bandcamp.com/
Realizing we're 3/4 October and ive played zero horror games this month.
I finally saw The Backrooms this past weekend and I kinda loved it. There's this moment where it's described as a place that fails to remember itself over and over again and it just feels awesome tp have something with that description realized in this way.
Something thats utterly inconsequential but still does psychic damage to me. People going "ARE YOU READY??!!!" Like they're gonna burn the building down at karaoke and then Sweet Caroline starts playing immediately after.
Looking forward to being able to do a track by track breakdown of WK's score in the future. There's SO MUCH to talk about there it's kinda wild.
This really isn't meant to be a humble brag I swear. I just keep getting blown away seeing the number of plays on reuploads of the game's music to YouTube. I was perfectly okay for the past 14 or so years having very few plays on anything I made period.
I need to shorten future answers to questions about White Knuckles music and ambience influences to: 1. Probably a Nine Inch Nails song 2. Thats a damn fine sounding garbage disposal. 3. Both 1 and 2 at the same time.
jackfolkner.bandcamp.com/album/white-... Its Bandcamp Friday, and you're not gonna believe what I've got.
White Knuckle, by Jack Folkner
19 track album
jackfolkner.bandcamp.com
The audio end of things for Teeth wasn't easy either. Creature design is a ton of fun for me, but the volume of assets needed was pretty new to me for an NPC feature like this, not to mention the overall collective stress of designing the encounter.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoJanuary was also the month where I worked on Teeth, one of the main antagonist enemies stalking you through part of Hab. Teeth was, to be frank, a nightmare to design.
No respite can be found in the hallowed halls of CONCRETE BURIAL as the onslaught continues. Out on September 17th!
November is a quick one for me even though it was a pretty significant month. Every morning, I'd wake up to a screenshot from Holly from our steamworks page with a new update on wishlist count. Basically christmas most mornings as far as the game was concerned.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 11/11/2024
October 2024 was a deeply meaningful and wonderful month for me. But lets talk about getting White Knuckle ready instead HAHAHA.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 10/07/2024
Alright I'm a day behind on these so you're getting two from me today! Here's how September went for White Knuckle's sound:
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 09/04/2024 [ECONOMY]
I got around to my end of things pretty late tonight so I'll throw in some comments about this month later!
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 09/04/2024 [ECONOMY]
Oh also if anyone else reads this please try Madman's demo for Avenge Myself (store.steampowered.com/app/3488520/...) It's a fantastic game!!!
AVENGE MYSELF Demo on Steam
Reject gravity. Go fast. A speedrunning FPS with gravity-defying physics-based movement. Find your own routes through stages and move like you've never moved before.
store.steampowered.com
August was a month I consider down right frenetic. I was house sitting for most of the month. Sleeping on a couch with my desktop setup on a folding table in the living room while watching a border collie. The growing momentum was absolutely palpable to me as well.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 08/18/2024 [PIPEWORKS]
Figuring the exact vibe for the game's audio was relatively quick. Since the earlier prototypes had these very tight spaces between the walls and short draw distance, I opted to have the background ambience change quickly to help reflect your progress since looking down didn't offer much info.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs we made our way into July of 2024, I continued work on items and the inventory system. Here's a video taken by @diplodocus03.bsky.social from that first day of july, where he did a preliminary audio pass on the test environment and items I threw together in the days prior.
It's funny to think that about a year ago I had this very passing interest in Magic as a game and then I contrast it with the six hours I spent today trying to organize all the fucking cards I got over that period of time.
I'll add some extra anecdotes from my end as well on occasion after these threads are posted!
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 2mo agoDaily Wuckle Screenshot: 06/25/2024 [THE FIRST]
Ever wanted your very own adorable, squishy Grub from White Knuckle? Say no more, YouTooz has your back with an all-new plushie based on our favorite handheld buddy! youtooz.com/products/whi...
Come play White Knuckle, we will be adding: Cube that screams Clingy friends Finding Nemo sea turtle sequence
Everything about this area has turned out better than I could've hoped.
Holly - Wuckle Scientist@jonka.bsky.social · 4mo agoand yes the catwalks to collapse why do you ask?
Every so often I rewatch an episode of the old Yu-Gi-Oh anime just for the for the nostalgia. I know there's a lot of commentary about localization and the numerous rule breaks for plot, but the only thing that actually bothers me now is these fuckers don't sleeve their cards 😭
Villains of all Nations The Great Mortality Blood Meridian Rant The Highlands Burm Were the books I meant btw
Jack Folkner@diplodocus03.bsky.social · 3mo agoTrying not to break out in a cold sweat when a kind stranger asks what Ive been reading lately and its all historical fiction and non-fiction about the plague, piracy and war crimes. I swear I'm not just digging for misery porn. Almost all of its educational!
Trying not to break out in a cold sweat when a kind stranger asks what Ive been reading lately and its all historical fiction and non-fiction about the plague, piracy and war crimes. I swear I'm not just digging for misery porn. Almost all of its educational!
Waiting for our company karaoke party where its just Holly and Quinn watching me do as many Nine Inch Nails songs as I can while I order bottles of Diplomatico on the company card.
I also picked up a Peavey Patriot at a shop here in town for super cheap. It might be my new favorite guitar I own. The sound is incredible.
So I moved in the last month, and of course I started running around recording every appliance, every door, the general ambience, etc. Its been awesome. Its also shockingly quiet so its been great for spur of the moment stuff. Ugh. Just wild how well my workflow improved.