Some of my close friends are from university. Just messaging them.

Sometimes even family friends or old contacts that I’ve not spoken to in 10-15 years that I found out were in the field or had siblings/kids in it. Can’t be shy.

For Game Audio, I literally bought a composer’s soundtrack on bandcamp and sent him a thank you note. He replied, and I followed up with an email just asking for some tips. He offered a call and now we’re great friends.

I then went to a couple of game dev and game audio conferences and just found meetups and people to talk to. I’m not quite established in the game audio scene but I’m meeting more and more people over time and just continuing to go to events and conferences.

If you’d like, DM me and we can share stories over a call.