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Santa DAWS 🔊 (Aaron Richards)
@araudio.bsky.social
Audio Designer/Data Engineer/Dad in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Lover of games, music, film & skating.

Edinburgh Game Audio Meet-up host | h/h | aaronrichardsaudio.com
Got my Favourite First Watches of 2024 list together. Managed 110 movies this year!

I think the only 5* I gave was to Mulholland Drive - after that, just a lot 4*s and other stuff I enjoyed for one thing or another 🙂

#letterboxd
December 30, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Pleased to share that I’ve obtained my ‘Professional Data Engineer’ certification from Google Cloud!

I’ve been quiet in the audio world since around July, pivoting to focus on this, so I’m pleased it’s done!

Back to audio works soon, I think :)
December 19, 2024 at 9:44 AM
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Silent Hill 2 Remake. Wow!
November 2, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Hi hi #gameaudio
We’re back at it this weekend in Edinburgh for our little get-together! Hopefully the sun might even make an appearance. 🌞

You can search the event on Eventbrite if you’d like to register interest!
June 18, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Chose violence this week 💅

Life feels a little different after watching Martyrs (2008). A brilliant movie that you can’t recommend to most people
June 6, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Hello hello #gameaudio 🔊
The Edinburgh game audio meet-up has returned!

We’re set for June 22nd at our usual time, and we’re back to BrewDog after a short departure!

Open to all identities, backgrounds and levels as per,

Sign-up link is here 🌝

www.eventbrite.com/e/edinburgh-...
June 5, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Pleased to have been nominated as part of the ‘Rising Star’ category from the folks over at Airwiggles!

Everyone on this list deserves to be recognised for their talent and contribution to the audio community.

Nice little boost to receive while on my break 🙂

#gameaudio #sounddesign
May 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Big fan of this idea. 🍗🍻
May 10, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Session: Skate Sim has now been Platinumed 🏆 Not sure what to do with myself now 🤔
May 3, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Hey folks, hope we’re all dandy!

I’ve now wrapped my part on a recent audio project (woo!), so after a few months of being ‘constantly on’, I’m pleased to have some breathing space in my evenings, for a while 🙂

Taking a short break. Treated myself to a new deck - how gorgeous is this graphic?
April 29, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Haven’t played a Ridge Racer game in literally 25 years. Dreamlike drifting and surprisingly still fun!
March 30, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Recently I’ve been on/off with the socials. Hope we’re all well.
Been tinkering away with a game I’m working on, hopefully can share my contributions soon!

In the meantime, I’ve made a good re-start with skating again, which feels GREAT
March 26, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Started developing a monitoring tool of sorts (slight difference to Reaper's own - aggregation I think?)

I'm bad for getting in the zone and just applying stuff without properly routing/being as efficient as possible.

Gonna add in some bits more, but this is kinda cool already :)

#gameaudio
March 4, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Hey #gameaudio 🔊

This is coming in hot! This is looking like our most-attended one yet. While the industry is in a scary place right now, we’re looking forward to catching up with friends old and new. See you soon!
March 1, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Recent watches 📸
February 13, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Hey #gameaudio folks!
Just a reminder that this is on the horizon and we’ve changed venue for this one!

See you soon! 🕹️
February 6, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Recent watches. Something… unusual in here 🤔
February 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Skater-dad lives (my finger hovers above the purchase button)
February 1, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Most horror movies exercise a good tension vs release ebb & flow. It’s what makes long-form horror effective.
However, home invasion movies are especially good at a constant ramp upward of tension.

This movie is at a near-constant unease incline and if that’s your thing, it’s worth that alone.
January 30, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Recent watches. I’ve been playing more games/working on a game through January, but I did pick up some physical stuff which has been cool 🙂
January 25, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I’ve (literally) waited years to be able to pick up a PS5. It’s never really been the right time, and I often feel guilty for larger purchases.

But sometime you’ve got to realise that you are your own Santa.

Excited!!!
January 14, 2024 at 3:44 PM
January 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Recently I picked a Blu-Ray pack of Neon Genesis Evangelion+END OF EVANGELION+EVANGELION: DEATH(TRUE)2

Really looking forward to watching EoE again and buzzing I got it for this price.

This is the Netflix 2019 dub. Fine by me as this was my first watch and holds part of the love ❤️
January 9, 2024 at 9:51 PM
4 cont:

Views can connect directly to Tableau (meaning tableau executes this code upon each filter request etc), and are easy to edit while in-test. BUT we don't want this to be a view forever in case of query cost and optimisation. (Another scheduled insert layer/job).
January 8, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Stage 2: Python Script/Cloud Function

This is my first Python script, and took a while to get the basics done 🐍

Some basic transformation is handled at this stage, but you want to consider what to keep at a 'raw data' level in the database, and further changes can be made using SQL.
January 8, 2024 at 8:54 PM