How To Get Hired In Game Audio - Thoughts And Insights From Your Potential Employer's Perspective:

Posted March 11, 2020 by Asbjoern Andersen in Sound community highlights, Sound Opinions

Want to know what's crucial to get right when applying for a game audio position - as seen from one potential employer's perspective?

Here's your chance to get some interesting leads on exactly that, as in a series of tweets, Richard Ludlow from Hexany Audio just shared some to-the-point insights into what they look for, what works and what doesn't when they hire new members to their prolific game audio team. Here they are:

Written by Richard Ludlow and republished with his kind permission

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We’re hiring for a couple of sound design roles at Hexany Audio, so I thought I’d share a bit what that process looks like at our studio. Please note: These things are true for us alone, not every studio.

Reels

Our very first step is a blind review of demo reels. We don’t look at names, years of experience, resume, or anything else. We’ll pass if your reel isn’t excellent. And if your link doesn’t work, we move on. Pro Tip: Test your link a private window before sending.

We’re looking to hire video game sound designers. If your reel is 100% film and doesn’t contain anything at all from a game and your resume doesn’t have anything related to games, you’re probably not the best fit for this position.

We are 100% fine with sound re-designs that aren’t from titles you actually worked on. So long as they showcase your work, we don’t care if they are from a game you didn’t work on.

Audio-only reels are no good. We need to see sound work done to picture to tell what your creative intent was. Music, abstract soundscapes, and raw SFX without video aren’t helpful, and if you don’t have any examples of sound to picture, we’ll pass on your application.

Music, abstract soundscapes, and raw SFX without video aren’t helpful, and if you don’t have any examples of sound to picture, we’ll pass on your application

While not a factor in elimination, we don’t love reels that are entirely ‘stylized’ work. If you’re submitting all 8-bit work, spells or abstract concepts, it can be more difficult for us to gauge your abilities…

For example, we prefer a cinematic demo that is somewhat grounded in the real world, because we know what that sounds like and we can tell if you were able to successfully craft a scene that has less room for creative interpretation and a more expected end result.

Did you record everything in your reel yourself? Bonus points for creativity! But if the end result isn’t incredible, we do not favor your process over the end result. We need to know you can make something amazing & at this stage we care much less about how you did it.

Application

At this point, if we like your reel, we’ll look at the rest of your application. If you didn’t follow the directions when applying (e.g. naming your files the correct way, etc.) we flag you as not having an attention to detail.

Attention to detail is critical in game work. We don’t immediately eliminate you for this, but looking back, we’ve never actually hired someone who didn’t follow all of our instructions explicitly.

From here we look at your cover letter & resume. Not many things will eliminate you from consideration at this point, but one can be experience.

If we’re hiring an assistant position, it means we want someone who is a blank slate we can train. Likewise if we are hiring for a position with a ‘minimum years of experience’, we want candidates to meet that minimum. Too much or too little experience are absolutely factors

We hear from industry-seasoned candidates that they want to be considered for entry-level positions. But if we’re hiring an assistant position, it means we want someone who is a blank slate we can train. Likewise if we are hiring for a position with a ‘minimum years of experience’, we want candidates to meet that minimum. Too much or too little experience are absolutely factors.

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Interview

Next up is an interview. It’s extremely rare we pass on someone due to culture fit, personality, or anything else in this first interview. We’re looking to get confirmation your resume was truthful and that you love games. If so, you’ll probably get a sound test.

Sound Test

Assuming you got an interview, the sound test is the #1 determining factor for us in hiring.

Assuming you got an interview, the sound test is the #1 determining factor for us in hiring

This is your chance to shine, and is the primary driving force in our hiring decisions for sound design positions. This deserves all of your love and attention.

Follow-up Interview

This is where we want you to dive into your process for the sound test. Talk shop, give us details, and ask us questions. This interview will include myself, our lead sound designer, producer, and potentially others.

In-Person Interview

Assuming that went well, we’ll want you to come over at this point and meet the team, see the studio, and socialize with us. You’ll be asked additional questions about experience, etc. to see if we think you’ll be a good fit for the job and the team.

Final Thoughts

99% of questions we receive through email or DMs can be answered by reading the job description and application. Sending us a question that can be answered by reading the position details doesn’t help get you noticed, it just wastes everyone’s time.

Devote time to making your reel incredible and you’ll rise to the top for sure, even if things aren’t a perfect fit for this particular position

When hiring for our sound design positions we are very focused on the quality of your work. Devote time to making your reel incredible and you’ll rise to the top for sure, even if things aren’t a perfect fit for this particular position.

A big thanks to Richard Ludlow for letting us share his insights on what works for Hexany when it comes to the game audio hiring process!

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About Hexany Audio:

The team at Hexany Audio has worked on franchises like Assassin’s Creed, League of Legends, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Blade Runner, Jurassic World, and many more. See their currently open positions here, and learn more about the company here

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• The Film Sound Power List

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• 10 Essential Tips for Game Audio Freelancers

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• How to get hired in game audio – thoughts and insights from your potential employer’s perspective

• Why gear is not the ticket to entry in the game audio community

• 4 Effective Ways to Break into Game Audio

• Tips for Creating a Perfect Resume for Audio Industry Jobs

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• Freelance Game Audio: Getting Started and finding work – by Ashton Morris

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• Courses: How to network and get paid for your work in the game industry – by Akash Thakkar

• How to Craft a Perfect Cover Letter for Audio Industry Jobs

Finding those audio jobs:
• Get the weekly Audio Jobs newsletter

• Join the Audio Jobs Facebook group

Showcasing your work:
• Get a free profile on Soundlister

• Upload your demos to Soundcloud

• Upload your demos to ReelCrafter

Networking:
• Find game audio community groups around the world

• Find interesting audio events around the world

• Find other audio pros around the world

Coping with a layoff - and how to bounce back:
• How to prepare for – and power through – a layoff in the game audio industry, with Brian Schmidt:

• How to Survive a Game Audio Layoff – insights from Damian Kastbauer

• What it’s like to be laid off from your video game studio

• What To Do Before and After Being Laid Off

• Facebook Group: Survival Skills for Creatives

Education and knowledge:
• Get an audio mentor at the Audio Mentoring Project

• How To Learn Game Audio Online – A talk with Game Audio Educator Leonard Paul

• Hear the very best podcasts about sound

• Read the 100s of sound stories and guides on the A Sound Effect blog (search for stories here)

• Browse Industry Data: Game Music and Sound Design Salary Survey Results

• Browse 100+ Sound Design Guides

• Find essential books about sound – for film, games and audio post production

• Get tips and ideas for making your own sound effects

• Use the Audio Events Calendar to find audio-related events around the globe

• Get a steady stream of great sound stories from the community

• Discover 1000s of sound libraries from the independent sound community

• Take online courses in Wwise, FMOD Studio, Unity, Pure Data & Unreal at the School of Video Game Audio

Getting into independent sound effects:
• DIY SFX libraries - Your guide to your first sound effects library

• Sound effects survey results: Here are 90+ ideas for new SFX libraries

• How to create an indie sound bundle

• The quick-start guide to adding sound FX library metadata

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Spell Variations Vol. 4 marks the grand finale of our magical sound series, delivering a diverse and powerful collection of spell effects. Inside, you’ll find summonings, blood spells, petrifications, healing spells, dark incantations, and much more!

This volume includes 255 high-quality sound effects, organized into 27 distinct spell types, each with multiple variations (3 to 17) to ensure no spell sounds the same, even when reused across your project.

Each spell type is carefully named and sorted into individual folders, giving you intuitive navigation and maximum flexibility for magical scenes, game effects, or cinematic transitions.

Recorded, edited, and mastered in 192 kHz / 24-bit, these sounds deliver exceptional clarity and full adaptability for pitching, layering, or creative processing.

A must-have library for professional sound designers seeking drag-and-drop magical sounds for video games, trailers, animations, or any audiovisual production.

More about the pack
– Intuitive file naming
– All you’ll ever need regarding magical sounds [Use them again & again
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
– Totally mono compatibility
– All sounds have several variations.
– Use your imagination and feel free to use any sound for a creature other than the one described, remember that the world of sound is totally subjective.
– For any questions or problems: khronstudio@gmail.com

Features
– 255 spell sounds
– Number of Audio Waves: 255
– Format: 192KHz / 24 bits
– Win/Mac: Yes
– Minutes of audio provided: 19:21

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DESIGN KIT (360 Sounds – 60 Files)

A collection of brutally crafted, drag-and-drop sound effects, organized into game-ready actions and categories.
- Stab: Precise, piercing attacks with bladed weapons like knives, daggers, and swords.
- Hit: Brutal strikes using blades such as machetes, katanas, and sabres.
- Cut: Clean or messy slices delivered by weapons like katanas, knives, machetes, and sabres.
- Slam: Heavy, crushing blows with blunt weapons like warhammers, morning stars, flails, crowbars – and even axes used with brute force.
- Crush: Full-on head or body crushes – whatever happens when too much pressure turns flesh and bone into pulp.
- Explode: Full-on body explosions – when guts, bones, and blood violently erupt in every direction at once.
All of these categories are featured in both a realistic, organic style and an exaggerated, highly stylized, over-the-top version.

In addition the Design Kit features Projectile Impacts from Guns, Shotguns and Arrows.

BUILDING BLOCKS (384 Sounds – 64 Files)

The goal behind our Building Blocks is to provide pre-designed sound layers that streamline your workflow. We’ve created straightforward, easy-to-use categories that let you quickly build new sounds or enhance your own designs.

All following categories are available in both Wet and Dry:
- Impact: Ideal as punchy sweeteners for heavy weapon hits and brutal moments.
- Whoosh: Quick, clean lead-ins to enhance any kind of gore sound.
- Crack: Perfect for highlighting the snap of shattered bones and broken bodies.
- Tail: Drag and drop to add lingering, gruesome sustain to your gore effects.
CONSTRUCTION KIT (2653 Sounds – 483 Files)

For our Construction Kit, we wanted to give you the best of both worlds to meet (or should we say meat) all your needs. You’ll get cleaned raw recordings for full flexibility in your own processing, plus pre-processed and layered sounds to spark creativity, fuel inspiration, and give you everything you need for hyperrealistic gore design.

Our Construction Kit includes:
- Blood: Vile drips, juicy splatters, and bone-chilling squeezes.
- Gut: Rich with drops, impacts, squishes, and visceral movement.
- Flesh: Brutal impacts, rips, strains, and movements.
- Bone: Crisp breaks and sharp snaps.
- Texture: Hyperrealistic wet and dry constant textures.
- Weapon: Resonant metal slices, stabs, and hits, as well as whooshes for weapon hits and ricochets.
Add to cart
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Rated 5.00 out of 5
$190

Metamorphosis is a huge collection of recorded source, synthesized material and hybrid sounds. The library was created to cover a wide range of themes, with rich textures, aggressive impacts and a large selection of pass bys, bass drops, pyrotechnics and many more types of material.

All of the Recorded Section was captured at 384KHz with microphones capable of recording up to 200KHz among with more conventional mics. The resulting assets are sounds that can be stretched to new extremes for greater sound design opportunities.
In many cases I took the liberty to slow down the assets while editing the sounds to deliver what I thought was the most useful version of a given recording though in most cases I have also included other takes at the original 384KHz sample rate to get the best of both worlds.

All of the Synthesized Content was created in Serum while the Hybrid Section was created by manipulating the Recorded and Synthesized sounds.

Techniques such as morphing were used to blur the lines in between the nature of the two sources, making for ambiguous yet extremely versatile material that can be employed on both realistic and abstract designs.

Bonus: Two extra libraries included for free: This library also includes two additional releases from Mattia Cellotto - for free: Crunch Mode delivers 230 crunchy sounds made with a variety of vegetables, fresh bread, pizza crust and a selection of frozen goods. The Borax Experiment gets you 158 squishy, gory, slimy and gooey sounds.

Add to cart

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A powerful collection of 108 extreme wind ambiences, recorded on a remote sub-Antarctic research station in the Southern Ocean by Andy Leeder.

Ranging from 50 to 150km per hour gusts, Sub-Antarctic Winds delivers raw recordings of both interior and exterior storms — including howling winds with open doors, turbulent gusts outside, and reverberant building-shaking hollows.

Captured over a full 12 months, you’ll hear the strongest southern ocean winds and storms of the year. From locations across the island, inside a vast array of research station structures, and outside in the elements among the cold, sands and tussocks.

These wind ambiences will be perfect for setting the scene in wild weather films, games and other projects. They impose a powerful environment and lend authenticity to any extreme moment you create, indoors or outdoors, or even otherworldly winds with recordings from unique research station locations.

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Hello Creators!

Here’s my new pack: “Fantasy Combat Sounds – Volume 02“

The approach for this pack was to create some special weapon & combat sounds suitable for RPG/Fantasy video games (although this sounds can be used in different audiovisual creations)

In this pack there are:

– Slashes, magic swords, different special attacks…
– Impacts, hits, magic impacts, etc…
– Arch sounds

Related Packs (created by me)

Fantasy Combat Sounds
Sword Combat Sounds (Weapons)
Anime Combat Sounds

Making-Off

All this sounds were originally recorded with a Zoom H6 (cardiod microphone), and were edited in Logic Pro X, almost no processing was made, it was mainly editing the recorded material but also I used the plugin “Phaseplant” as a sampler.

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Bundles Musical Textures Play Track 863 sounds included $179

Experience the fusion of music and sound design with, Musical Textures, the latest cinematic sound effects bundle from 344 Audio. This collection reimagines musical instrument recordings as rich, expressive sound design elements, delivering an inspiring toolkit that bridges the worlds of music and filmic storytelling.

This is not a music library — it’s something tonal, textural, and uniquely crafted to bring musicality into the realm of cinematic sound design.

After months of tireless work, the 344SFX team, (with the involvement of skilled musicians), captured performances from electric guitars, bells, chimes, gongs, harps, percussion and more, then meticulously transformed them into a stunning range of designed assets. The result is a library that blends musical expression with cinematic sound design, delivering sounds that feel both organic and otherworldly — ready to enhance emotion, tension, and atmosphere across your creative projects.

Inside, you’ll discover a rich tapestry of cinematic textures: swelling risers sculpted from cymbals, thunderous hits shaped from singing bowls and percussive elements, and sharp, melodic stingers inspired by East Asian instruments. Long, enveloping drones, crafted through inventive sound design — add tension and atmosphere, while deep subs, lush pads, ethereal ambiences, and harmonic tonal beds bring emotional depth and tonal complexity. You’ll also find a selection of short, expressive musical performances, ideal for transitions, title cards, or scene changes that call for a nuanced, human touch.

Whether you’re building transitions, accenting key moments, or shaping immersive soundscapes, Musical Textures adds tonal richness and cinematic character to your design palette.

Every sound has been meticulously crafted by our in-house audio artisans, making this library ideal for sound designers working in film, television, trailers, and games.

With 863 sound effects, totaling 30.4GB, and delivered in both 24-bit / 96kHz and 192kHz, each file is embedded with UCS metadata for easy integration into your workflow.

Musical Textures is your toolkit for expressive, tonal, and cinematic sound design, where instruments become atmosphere, and melody becomes motion.

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Bundles Ultimate Horror Play Track 1550 sounds included $199

The Ultimate Horror sound effects library from 344 Audio is designed to empower creators with the spine-chilling elements of horror.

With high-quality recordings, this collection has everything you need to fill your projects with intense gore, eerie atmospheres, and heart-pounding jump scares. Perfect for emulating a haunting ambience, or providing gruesome creature sounds for a zombie apocalypse film, this collection ensures your projects will never lack the terrifying sonic textures they deserve. Make your work truly unforgettable with the Ultimate Horror sound effects library — the essential collection for any slasher movie enthusiast.

This library contains over 1,500 individual files to choose from and is embedded with UCS Metadata. Don’t delay, fill your collection with these essential horror sounds to keep your audience on the edge of their seats!

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Bundles The Antiques Collection Play Track 712 sounds included $89

344 Sound Effects proudly presents The Antiques Collection, a meticulously recorded bundle that captures the distinct, textured sounds of objects from a bygone era. The sonic qualities of antique items can be elusive, often requiring specific techniques and a variety of recordings to faithfully reproduce their authentic character. With this collection, our in-house team has delivered a suite of high quality recordings designed to bring depth, age, and historical richness to your projects.

The Antiques Collection features a thoughtfully curated selection of objects, sourced over several years through trusted auctioneers across the UK, and a dedicated independent antiques dealer based in our home city of Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

This bundle contains recordings of antiques such as mechanical typewriters, rotary telephones, vintage bottles, dusty books, old clocks, metal boxes, luggage, and antique cutlery. These aren’t just props, they’re full of tonal nuance. From the weighty click of typewriter keys to the gentle clink of glass bottles, every sound has been captured with precision and care to highlight the tactile, resonant qualities that only age and craftsmanship can produce.

Each recording in this bundle was performed and captured under controlled studio conditions, meticulously tested across a variety of surfaces and materials to ensure realism, clarity, warmth, and sonic consistency. You’ll hear the weighty thud of vintage luggage being set down, the crisp ticks of antique wooden clocks, the textured rustle of pages in a well-worn book, and the delicate clink of aged cutlery against a handcrafted oak table. Whether you’re designing sound for period films, historical documentaries, games, or audio dramas, this bundle provides an immediate and authentic solution, saving you the time and effort of sourcing rare items yourself.

With over 700 files and 2.8GB, 24bit, 96kHz, of professionally captured antique recordings, this bundle offers a comprehensive library of unique, characterful sounds, making it your go-to resource for adding genuine vintage detail and historical depth to any audio project.

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