Overview

Make your positive impact on the future of gaming

The gaming industry is changing at lightning speed. From the growth of free-to-play and battle royale games to the arrival of play-to-earn games and GameFi, the industry is evolving at a rapid pace. Nyan Heroes is at the forefront of this evolution focused on building a AAA battle royale game that is launching its alpha late 2023. To further involve and empower players fairly in every aspect of the game and economy, Nyan Heroes will be leveraging the benefits of the blockchain, while also positioning itself as the benchmark for fair, sustainable game development in this space. We aim to lead the advancement of the GameFi industry technologically, ethically, and inspirationally.

About the role:

As a Sound Designer, you will be in charge of recording, designing and implementing AAA sound effects across a variety of audio disciplines, from concept to final delivery. You will be responsible for both realising the audio vision and maintaining the quality benchmark across the entire game’s audio. Working closely with the Senior Technical Sound Designer, you will play a key role in both designing and supporting innovative, effective interactive audio systems that will facilitate the team in delivering a world-class audio experience. As a leading specialist in audio you’ll also serve as a mentor for junior members of the internal audio team.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Maintaining the quality bar for audio through creating & implementing world-class, original assets
  • Working with the Audio Director to execute the vision
  • Collaborating in regular audio reviews to provide feedback and identify opportunities for iteration
  • Working closely with the production team to plan and schedule work
  • Contributing to the establishment of best practice principles, audio pipelines and workflow practices
  • Being a voice, proponent and key contact for audio across the wider team

About You:

  • 5+ years’ experience as a Sound Designer or equivalent role
  • Excellent creative sound design, editing, implementation and mixing skills
  • Solid experience of Unreal Engine
  • Advanced working knowledge of Wwise middleware
  • Experience with creating and mixing sound to picture
  • Experience with technical troubleshooting, profiling and optimisation
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines
  • Strong communication skills and ability to liaise with both internal and
  • external team members
  • Excellent written and verbal skills
  • Well organised and self-motivated approach to your workload

FAQs:

  • Location: From anywhere in the world. We are globally remote.
  • Equity/tokens available: Yes
  • Start date: ASAP

The Studio:

We are a well-funded gaming studio seeking talented, motivated team members to help build an industry-defining title on PC from the ground up. We are gamers ourselves and believe in allowing talented people to express their own creative freedom. We are looking for many experienced industry heroes to help build and craft an AAA-rated game with a unique innovative twist on the standard formula. We currently have more than 60 talented Nyan members across the world with two-thirds of our team coming from AAA-rated gaming studios and titles. In addition to reshaping the future of gaming, we are committed to creating the top gaming studio culture founded on kindness and our love of cats! Nyan Heroes has already donated $250,000 from its first NFT sale towards our mission of saving 1 billion cats.