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Nick Pettit

@nrpettit

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🎮 Lead Developer, @play_buck_games
🎶 Co-Founder, @vibralizer
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This is my journey as a game developer, teacher, and creative thinker. For twenty years I’ve been exploring the intersection of art, tech, and the people that make it happen.

Technology is often forward-looking, which is why I had so much fun taking a trip down memory lane for my new portfolio site!

🔗 nickpettit.com

This is just the story so far. Always happy to talk about what’s next. 🔮✨ taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @nrpettit

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The lineup for Astronox (@astronoxevents) has some of the DJs and VJs we admire most, so we’re incredibly honored and excited to be bringing Vibralizer and opening a portal to the audio-reactive dimension. It gets weirder all 4 nights of the fest so follow to see what happens!

Drop a name for the goldfish in the comments! 🐠 taken in Valkyrie Ranch by @nrpettit

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Don’t try this at home. Do we need to say that? Not sure, but it seems like we should.

Still reading? Want a music visualizer that just works? Try the free demo of Vibralizer on Steam! 🔗 link in bio taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @nrpettit

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Were you team Winamp or Windows Media Player? Let us know in the comments. ⚡️

🔗 in bio - Wishlist Vibralizer on Steam and see the sound for yourself! taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @nrpettit

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🪜 “Ladder Lad” made its public debut at PAX West! It’s a platformer with no jump button and the first 100% ladder themed game. It’s ladders all the way down and all the way up!

For 4 days, we had queues from open to close; many people came back to play multiple times. We even received our first fan art! I feel fortunate to be working on such a cool game with this dream team.

Look for Ladder Lad in Steam Next Fest next month! taken in Seattle, Washington by @nrpettit

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Still reintegrating from two of the most incredible weeks of our lives. We were locked in from the start and pushed ourselves far outside our typical comfort zone of audio data, software, and pixels.

The experience, the people, the place… absolute magic. We’re so inspired.

📍 @icelandeclipse taken in Hellissandur, Snafellsnes- Og Hnappadalssysla, Iceland by @nrpettit

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Getting to VJ twice in our first day doing it in a big space is pretty surreal.

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Afterglow Dome, @icelandeclipse taken in Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland by @nrpettit

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🇮🇸🗻✨ taken in Hellissandur by @nrpettit

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🪜🪜🪜ANNOUNCEMENT: Ladder Lad is the next title from BUCK Games! It’s a new 2D platformer with no jump button, coming soon to Steam and Nintendo Switch! We’ve been working on this for a long while and it’s exciting to finally share the first glimpses with you and the gaming community. Head over to @play_buck_games to see the trailer and come to PAX West in Seattle to play the first public demo. 🧢🪜✨ by @nrpettit

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A kalimba & a kitten here to remind you that life is not an emergency.

This is a new Vibe that we call "Phase" coming very soon in Vibralizer v0.5.0, our biggest update ever.
🔗 Link in bio.

We made Phase by experimenting with new audio science and analysis. Phase is also an example of a new feature we call Filters where you can remix Vibes with layered visual effects. We think of Phase as a reminder that you control the pixels on your screen, not the other way around. Oh, and it looks rad with dubstep.

No kittens were harmed in the making of this video. Kalimbas, not so sure. taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @nrpettit

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It was such an honor to get to add audio reactivity and animation to the @icelandeclipse festival poster by @android_jones! Here’s a peek into how we did it.

We can’t wait for Iceland! We’ll be there, perhaps with a few more audiovisual tricks up our sleeves. Please say hello if you see either of us! (@katesnyderphd / @nrpettit) 🌞🇮🇸

#icelandeclipsefestival #androidjones by @nrpettit

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A birdsong scientist and a game developer fell in love, went to a lot of festivals, and built the music visualizer they wished existed.

We’re Kate (@katesnyderphd) and Nick (@nrpettit), the two-person team behind Vibralizer.

Kate spent years studying how birds learn and transmit song across generations. She also has hearing loss, and she wanted to see music the way she’d learned to analyze birdsong: as frequency spectrums, not just pulses of sound. Nick builds video games that call for robust systems engineering and sophisticated graphics. Turns out that’s the exact set of skills needed to build an application that can work as effortlessly as the music visualizers we grew up with, but built for the streaming age.

So we made Vibralizer: hand-crafted, audio-reactive visuals for streaming and live music. Every Vibe is built by humans. Intelligent, not artificial.

Follow along as we build. Vibralizer is on Steam and itch.io now, link in bio. 🔗 taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @nrpettit

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