A slip-drawing party game that uses the power of randomiziation to create hilarious, thought-provoking, and memorable conversations among a group of friends. A perfect game for talkative, clever, witty people. Play on Zoom or in-person.
Play Subject+PredicateJackson Bierfeldt
jbierfeldt [at] gmail [dot] com
About me
Hello! I'm Jackson Bierfeldt, a web developer, audio engineer, teacher,
and digital artist, based in Central Europe and the United States.
I'm originally from Northeastern Ohio, currently live in Vienna, Austria,
and have previously lived in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
The purpose of this website is to serve as place to organize and collect
all of my various activities and interests. The best way to get in contact with me is
via email!
Academic
I did my undergraduate work in Linguistics and Germanic Studies at the
University of Chicago. My research interests were primarily in the history of science in
the German-speaking world. I wrote my
thesis about an amateaur science popularizer named Raoul Francé, and his
attempts to use psuedo-scientific ideas about "order" and "naturalness" found in the
world of plants to explain and justify the distribution of humans and cultures around the
world.
I'm now in a master's program in Applied Linguistics (Angewandte
Linguistik) at the University of Vienna, with a research interest in foreign language
acquisition.
Audio
A big part of my life is audio. I have a small podcast production company, have worked
for several years as a podcast editor and mastering engineer, and do sound design for
film, XR, and installation.
In addition to actually working in the DAW (mostly REAPER) and making,
mixing, and mastering audio, I also teach audio (post-)production basics. I also develop
audio technology for the
web.
You can learn more in the Audio sectionof this site.
Games
I make multiplayer, browser-based games. Sometimes alone, sometimes with
collaborators.
I'm mostly interested in turn-based strategy games (like chess,
Carcasonne, Civilization) but have recently taken an interest in translating "party"
games—the kind that you play with a group of friends around a table—to the web.
I use a variety of frameworks and libraries, but pretty much everything I
do is built with Javascript and Socket.io.
You can learn more in the Games
sectionof this site.
Web Development
Web development is probably my oldest and biggest hobby. My first job ever was as a web developer for my local school district, where I learned the basics of HTML, CSS, and PHP. Since then, I've been dabbling and tinkering around, mostly working with Javascript and its entire universe of frameworks, libraries, and tools.
You can see some of my public and open source projects over on my Github page.
Writing
I really want to regularly write about what I'm doing and learning and put it somewhere online. I've tried doing this several times, most recently over at thisweekinlearning.com. I had a development blog for a little while, wrote one giant post about implementing an algorithm in a game I was developing, and then took a several year break.
Consider this block aspirational. Hopefully something will live here some day.
Audio
Audio
I'm involved in many areas of audio production, post-production, and
education. My expertise is mostly in podcast (post-)production, location sound, and
studio construction. I do commercial audio work under my production company: Bierfeldt Audio, LLC.
In addition to having worked as an editor, producer, and mastering
engineer on a wide range of podcasts (from hundreds of listeners per episode to
hundreds of thousands), I'm also very passionate about audio education. I've trained
many students and early-career professionals in the basics of podcast production,
editing, and mastering. I'm proficient in and can instruct in the use of all the
major DAWs (I personally use REAPER and Ableton Live).
Podcast Production / Editing
Production Website
Sound Design for Film / XR / Installation
Aside from commerical podcasting work, I also do creative sound
design for film, XR, and installation. My work has been featured in digital installations and at film
festivals across the United States and Europe, including the BFI London
Film Festival and the Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.
Upcoming projects include more immersive dreamscapes, based on the stories of Bruno Schulz, and a recording trip to greenland, to capture the sounds of a melting iceberg, for use in a VR project about the earth's changing natural landscape. More information soon!
Past Clients
Games
Subject+Predicate
Close Quarters
A turn-based, game-theory, multiplayer strategy game with retro graphics and exponentially increasing complexity. A cross between chess and battleship. Make a strategy, place your units, submit your turn, and then watch the action. Play with friends or strangers.
Play Close QuartersUntitled Road Connecting Game
Inspired by Carcasonne and other tile-placing games, this turn-based multiplayer game asks players to take turns placing tiles of a road and trying to build the largest self-enclosed networks possible. A work-in-progress.
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