ryan vincent jaeger

The initial release of Cyber-Wing is now available!

You can download it currently @ fileplanet, without a wait. http://www.fileplanet.com/208717/200000/fileinfo/Cyber-Wing-1.01

Please note: Environmental audio effects and the Doppler effect are not supported.

I was invited to rejoin the old Mechnex gang, in order to design and implement sounds for their latest endeavor, Twilight’s Last Gleaming. Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a post-apocalyptic fantasy mod for Neverwinter Nights 2.

For more information please visit:
http://www.mechnex.com/

Cyber-Wing, the latest game I’ve been working on sound effects and aesthetic realization for has entered public beta.

Please feel free to try it out with a friend, and be sure to sign up on the Martian Arctic forums to report bugs, or to give any suggestions that you may have.

Public open beta version is now available from our downloads section or right here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T3IEUIOY (WIN PC only)

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I’m currently working on sound design for “Cyber-Wing,” a 3D Action RTS game by Martian Arctic Games.

The game is currently in early stages of development, and a closed beta should be starting up here in a few weeks.

I’ll be sure to post when my audio portion of the project is complete and fully implemented.

I recently designed sound effects for a short film called Porter.
You can watch it here.

I’ve used a lot a freeware windows applications over the years and quite a hefty amount of it has been disposable. For some of my basic needs I have been pretty confident with the following applications ever since using them. If you can make a recommendation of something better than listed here, I would love to hear your suggestions! (BTW all are windows applications, but some are multi platform)

• Audio Player Foobar2000
  • A very solid light weight audio player. It doesn’t try to be anything else.

• Multimedia Player VideoLAN VLC Media Player
  • Plays just about any media you could think of right off the bat. Great for watching DVDs.

• Image Manipulation GIMPshop
  • This is a variant of GIMP that tries to capture the layout and feel of Photoshop for those who are already too used to the giant that is… It can be a bit fidgety at times, but it gets the job done.

• Color Recognition ColorCop
  • A great little tool for web developers and graphic artists that allows you to grab colors off your screen and get readings in various modes such as RGB float, Hexadecimal and many more.

• PDF Reader Foxit Reader
  • A great lightweight PDF reader, enough said.

• FTP Client FileZilla
  • A very solid FTP client.

• CD/DVD Burning Deep Burner
  • If you hate the candy coated look of Roxio…

• Shell Integrated ISO Creator/Burner ISO Recorder
  • Best minimal ISO tool in teh world! Just a right click away from making or burning an ISO.

• CD Ripping CDex
  • I’m fairly new to this application, but so far so good. It seems to be as uncrippled as you get for freeware CD rippers. It does not have any conversion (re-encoding) tools unfortunately.

• Anti-Virus AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
  • A very lightweight anti-virus application with daily updates.

• Web Browser Firefox + Adblock Plus
  • The best browser period combined with the best ad blocking out there. My only complaint would be the high memory usage and/or memory leak. One way to circumvent this is the addition of the config.trim_on_minimize entry.

I don’t normally look up into the sun, but today I was in Galveston and couldn’t help but notice a big ass halo around it! I’ve never seen one of these in my life, so I decided to take a shot my cellphone…

Supposedly this is called an Icebow, as rain was not present. For more information go here.