Jay Steen
@jaysteen.bsky.social
Tech Director of @sweejtech.bsky.social making sweet audio tech for lovely people! Previously audio programmer at Jumpship and Criterion Games. Person who likes playing and making video games, playing guitar, running, snowboarding, and reading sci-fi.
You just know that when a mathematician says “so then by extension” what follows will be something physically inconceivable
Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social · last wk.okay so the surface of a 3D sphere has a locally defined 2D tangent space made of the: tangent (X) bitangent (Y) so then by extension, the 4D sphere has *three* tangent directions, that all go "along" the surface of the sphere: tangent (X) bitangent (Y) tritangent (Z)
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 🙌 🔊
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 🔊🎚️☝️
SweejTech@sweej.tech · 10mo ago@jaysteen.bsky.social's talk at Unreal Fest 2025 on building audio technologies within the Unreal Engine is now available on YouTube, enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jIE...
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!
📢🎧 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 🙌
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
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 😁
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
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!
SweejTech@sweej.tech · last yr.We’re excited to announce that SweejTech Ambience is now in beta (0.6.0)! If you're at GDC 2025, come say hello and grab a SweejTech Ambience pin badge! For more info on how to access our software, please reach out to hello@sweej.tech or join our Discord discord.com/invite/6K8Tw...
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 🤩
