ryan vincent jaeger

I’m looking to take on a small sound effects design/editorial project, for a high quality indie platformer/casual game. Preferably a title that is on its home run stretch for release. I just need something to keep the nuts and bolts from rusting, and would like to create some fresh content prior to AGDC. If you or your team also has a permanent position available, I would consider all reasonable proposals as well.

I’m also familiar with visual scripting (e.g. UnrealED 3 Sound Cue, FMOD, etc..) and basic manual editorial of Torquescript. I can also assist with world design audio placement for GarageGames Torque, Valve’s Hammer, Bioware’s Aurora, and Epic’s UnrealED. So if you need help with implementation or implementation consulting, I can be of assistance.

I’m very familiar with content management systems, and can communicate via IRC, Teamspeak, Skype, and various instant messaging protocols.

Interested parties may contact me here.

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 was recently invited to rejoin the Clancore Design Group in efforts to steer their sound design and audio implementation needs in the right direction. They are currently working on an all original game titled “Mechnexus: Projection of Force.” I have decided to take up the offer as I have nothing sound design related going on at the moment, other than my mod for Crysis that will get off it’s feet in the future, and my personal musical endeavors…

I have a lot of old computer hardware laying around sitting in boxes, and I thought it would be a cool idea to display them on my wall. I first thought of nailing them through the holes usually in most PC hardware to an extremely large cork board, but then I thought of shadow boxes!

Shadow boxes come in many sizes and can be bought at pretty much any arts and crafts store. I bought a 9×11″ shadow box at Garden Ridge Pottery for $12(USD) and you can place pretty much any single slot PCI or AGP card in it with ease. (other than those long PCI/AT cards)

I’m going to eventually get more and cover my entire wall with old PC hardware, but for right now this will have to do.

I released a new Shuutobi song this week called “Moxie,” you can check it out over on myspace or you can download a 320kbps version at the official website if you register.

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.

I decided to make a little video that contains a field recording I did on May 20th, 2007. Enjoy zzz.

Field Recording at the beach from Ryan Jaeger on Vimeo.

From top left to bottom right:
Dungeon Siege, Dungeon Siege 2, Neverwinter Nights, Company of Heroes, Command and Conquer: Generals, Grand Theft Auto 2, SIN Emergence, Ut2004, PlanetSide, Tribes: Vengeance, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2: Special Forces, Battlefield 2142, Call of Duty, EverQuest, Star Wars: Galaxies, EVE-Online, World Of Warcraft, World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, RF online.

These are not all the PC games I own, I have left out bargain bin games, games with the old large boxes, and games purchased directly online…

I obtained an Akai MPD24 on the 26th of December last year and I’ve been experiencing some issues with the endless encoders. I’m thinking it may be hardware related, because it just does not “feel” right. I have not really dove deep into the unit, so I did not notice this until quite recently. Here are the related issues, so please reply if you are experiencing the same issue or have anything else to add… (more…)