It’s been almost 10 years since I started freelancing in game audio, and I’ve never felt the need to have a webpage.

I don’t really think it’s necessary in order to thrive in this industry; there is no webpage that can get you a gig if you don’t first focus on creating great relationships with the people who can actually give you work.

That being said, with a network built and running through these years, combined with my growing personal interest in coding, I thought it was a good challenge to build a website that represents me as both an artist and a programmer. I want to give potential clients an experience they will remember, presenting myself as someone who takes his job very seriously—and therefore, a person they can trust.

Here are some lessons I learned while working on this project:

Inspiration and References

I wanted a website that resembled the ones I admire. As you might tell if you have visited them, sites like "A Shell In The Pit" or "iGame.Audio" were a huge inspiration for this project. You need one person to start something, someone else to follow the idea, a couple more believers, and boom… you’ve got a movement.

I really wanted something that captured that idea of “push this button, and a sound comes out.” But honestly, I wanted to be very careful not to just copy someone else. This book exposes this point to perfection.

Get Help!

I consider myself a decent technical sound designer with growing skills in gameplay audio programming. Some of this knowledge has safely transferred over to web development. Someone once said: “This job has given me the unhealthy confidence of saying ‘YES’ to projects that I have no idea how to do.” That was exactly the case for this webpage.

I could kung-fu my way through the code using the tools available—a web development course I took a few years ago, analyzing how other people solved the problems I was facing, and yes… asking Gemini to code-review my stuff. However, the visual part… yikes, that’s another story. I have no idea how to draw. In fact, I’m colorblind (seriously, I am). So, the visual style I envisioned for this was completely out of my league.

Thankfuly, I have really talented friends who could take on this challenge for me, so the guys from "Maleiwa Studio" came to the rescue.

Hiring an expert is sometimes the best thing you can do. It allows you to spend more time doing what you actually want—in my case, writing endless lines of code and slamming the keyboard trying to figure out how JS works.

Everything is a Chance to Learn

Before working on this, I had NO IDEA how to connect a domain to a webpage, what a hosting service was, or even that you could mix different programming languages in a single script. This website is NOT perfect; there are bugs out here that you might have already noticed, which I will be tackling soon.

But the idea behind all of this—besides having a place to store my portfolio and my thoughts—is rooted in my strong belief that we are all constant learners. And why not show the process in the meantime?

If you gained some knowledge out of it, it was 100% worth it.