Sound design plays a pivotal role in VR games in helping immerse players within the experience. Alongside playing important gameplay roles such as providing audio feedback cues for interactions and guiding users through the virtual space.

In game development sound can play a crucial part in making a player feel immersed and emotionally engaged in an experience. It provides vital cues to guide and lead the player. It delivers tangible feedback to players when they are performing actions within the game. It can reinforce success or failures. It grounds them in your world, within the ups and downs of your narrative. It supports nearly every facet of your game.

A common mistake beginning sound designers make - and I was certainly no exception to this, is using too many noisy source elements in the construction of their sound effects. Or not taming that noise adequately enough.

These are some of my favourite free plugins that I use daily as a freelance sound designer for video games.

Serum is widely known among the sound design and game audio community as a powerful software synthesizer. But maybe less known is the fact that it can also be used as an effect insert. 

I wanted to share a bit about my process of designing and implementing sounds for mobs in an Action Role Playing Game (ARPG) like Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem.

Unreal Engine audio implementation demonstration using the project: Soul City