Game Sound Designer

Remanence was a 3-semester project with each semester roughly coinciding with a different phase of production. During the first two semesters the team was around 18 members. I was the only sound designer during these first two semesters so I spent preproduction and production phases pumping out tons of half-decent music and sound design just so that we had sounds for everything in our game.

During the last semester, we added a few more members getting our team total up to 25, two of which were sound designers. This meant that for the polish/shutdown phase of production, I was mostly managing my small audio team which included things like task-tracking, task-assignment, reviews and feedback of new/revised assets, as well as handling any communication between the audio team and the rest of the leads.

As the sole individual responsible for all of the game’s audio, I was repeatedly identifying sounds needed, creating appropriate assets, building the systems in Wwise, and working with our audio programmer to implement sounds into the game’s custom C++ engine. I was also responsible for the stylistic direction of the audio for RoBotanist, and handled all of the necessary audio documentation including an asset spreadsheet and an audio guide.

This sound redesign reimagines one minute of gameplay from KONAMI Gaming Inc.’s Unwooly Super Riches Sugar slot game. Every sound effect was either created or recorded by me specifically for this project, and the accompanying music was also composed and produced by me.

For this solo project, I took the original sounds out of the intro sequence for the indie game Subnautica, and redesigned/reimagined them. This was created in REAPER and uses various sounds from the Soundly library; however, each sound in the redesign is several layers processed together to create something new.