Come work on totally rad games with the Beamdog dream team! We're the devs behind MythForce— the 80s cartoon rogue-lite fit for Saturday mornings— and our catalogue of classics includes beloved Dungeons & Dragons RPGs, like Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition .
Part of the design team, the Audio Designer is responsible for being an active and key contributor in creating a consistent and rich style & audio landscape for Beamdog’s game projects. The Audio Designer is responsible for audio assets and workflow processes throughout the production cycle, creating, sourcing, editing, and implementing game-ready audio. Works closely with the rest of the design team to maintain a high level of quality and consistency of assets.
Beamdog is a remote friendly environment, however remote candidates must have regular access to a professional quality audio recording space. (Home Studios are acceptable)
Responsibilities:
- Utilize advanced methods and techniques to create various in-game sounds, effects, and music, including mixing, processing, and implementation into the game engine
- Use the game engine’s audio tools to hook up sounds to animations , effects , and other various game events
- Develop the sound concept, sound map, or storyboard for game projects
- Ensure sound effects meet technical requirements of the game including voice channel limits, memory management, etc.
- Investigate sound issues to debug/fix, and ensure sounds play correctly
- Pre-mix sound effects to be implemented in game, and oversee final sound design mix
- Perform high-level audio implementation scripting tasks using visual scripting platforms such as UE4 Blueprints
- Key contributor to defining sound design specifications and developing tone of audio for style guide documentation of projects.
- Use various different sound implementation systems such as Wwise, FMOD, Unreal, UE4 Blueprints, Max MSP or other visual logic systems
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of game audio design and implementation experience
- Experience using game audio development tools, technology and pipelines. Experience in original sound effect design, creation, mixing, processing and implementation or computer game product development experience.
- Highly proficient with multitrack project mixing software/hardware and session set-up. Advanced experience with mixing stereo and surround sound formats.
- Strong understanding and working knowledge of node based visual scripting tools. (Unreal Blueprints, Pure Data, Max MSP, etc)
- Expertise with modern audio creation equipment, software and recording techniques, with a high level of proficiency in at least one DAW.
- Strong understanding of audio concepts and industry standards.
- Thoroughly understands the foundations of dynamic, frequency, and time based effects as well as audio synthesis.
- Outstanding sound design and listening skills.
- Experience developing audio pipelines and workflow for a game project
About Us
Beamdog is a fantastic place to work with a friendly and creative atmosphere. Located in Edmonton, Alberta, we're a hardworking team of passionate game developers who love the games we work on. Since 2009, we’ve brought enhanced versions of classic Dungeons & Dragons games and exciting original content to fans new and old. We’re best known for bringing beloved isometric roleplaying games like Baldur’s Gate™ and Planescape: Torment™ back to life on desktop and tablets as Enhanced Editions. We love rich stories where players can chose their own journey and the communities that spring up around them. If you’re excited about storytelling games, Dungeons & Dragons, and classic RPGs, stick around! You haven’t seen anything yet!
We offer the following perks:
- Opportunity to work on and develop a new and exciting IP
- Work from anywhere within Canada or come join us in Edmonton!
- 3 weeks of flexible vacation plus a 1-week holiday closure per year.
- Generous sick and personal days
- Flexible working hours
- NO CRUNCH policy
- RRSP Matching Program
- Vision, dental, and extended health benefits
- Health & wellness spending account
Diversity is fundamentally about valuing huma n differences and recognizing that a diverse group of people bring with them a diverse set of skills which is necessary to propel our company forward. Beamdog is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified persons. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.