Lost Future

SCOPE OF WORK

● Sound Design

Character Behavior & Creature SFX: Designing comprehensive movement and behavioral soundscapes, including player movement assets, unique character skills, status effects (infection/debuffs), and death sequences.
UI & HUD Audio Architecture: Creating clean, modern audio feedback systems for user interfaces, including button tactile clicks, notification windows, pop-ups, and character roster interactions.
Combat & Weapon SFX Overhaul: Crafting punchy, dynamic audio for firearms, explosives, and incendiary devices, alongside a complete redesign and balance overhaul for melee combat systems.
Environmental & Interactive Object Design: Producing multi-layered environmental ambient soundscapes, dynamic weather audio assets, and interactive world objects to enhance spatial realism and immersion.
Legacy Audio Redesign & Rework: Redesigning and modernizing all legacy game audio assets, upgrading outdated sound effects to meet current aesthetic and technical quality standards.

● Technical Design

Interactive Music System Architecture: Overhauling legacy music frameworks to deliver a responsive, dynamic system with seamless crossfades between exploration and combat states based on gameplay intensity.
Advanced Acoustic Systems (Obstruction & Occlusion): Developing and implementing a hybrid acoustic propagation system for accurate sound isolation between indoor, outdoor, and adjacent spaces using native Wwise tools and custom logic.
Adaptive Combat Audio Systems: Refactoring and engineering weapon systems (firearms, melee, explosives), including an adaptive firing framework that dynamically alters sonic profiles between first-person and third-person camera perspectives.
Dynamic Environment & Ambient Systems: Building multi-layered ambient sound systems that dynamically adapt in real time to weather shifts, time-of-day cycles, and visual environmental changes.

● Implementation

Gameplay Music Integration & Tuning: Implementing music assets into the engine, configuring dynamic transitions, looping points, state triggers, and ducking behaviors to respond accurately to gameplay events.
Wwise Project Architecture & Refactoring: Reorganizing and streamlining the Wwise project structure, resolving layout inconsistencies and structural errors to optimize collaborative workflows for multi-designer teams.
Cross-Engine Asset & Logic Restructuring: Restructuring core audio assets and standardizing naming conventions across Wwise and Unreal Engine, refactoring Events, Switches, States, and SoundBanks to optimize system architecture.
Foley System Integration & Processing: Processing and technically integrating player-character Foley assets (footsteps, clothing, gear movement) into the audio engine to deliver a responsive, immersive movement system.

● Music Production

AI-Assisted Music Composition & Mastering: Composing custom soundtrack themes and interactive music cues using AI music generation tools, followed by professional mixing and mastering to meet target loudness and dynamic range standards.

● Voice Over

Voiceover Processing & AI Dialogue Generation: Processing main character and NPC dialogues while leveraging proprietary AI voice generation workflows to deliver realistic, context-aware speech with natural phrasing and intonations.

● Optimization

Runtime Resource & Audio Profiling Optimization: Executing deep audio optimization by configuring voice limits, playback priorities, and virtualization rules to reduce CPU overhead and runtime memory usage.
Streaming & Format Conversion Pipeline: Optimizing asset delivery pipelines by configuring streaming settings, dynamic sample-rate conversion, and targeted audio compression formats (Vorbis/ADPCM) to minimize disk footprint and load times.

● Project Operations

Multi-VCS Workflow Management & Conflict Resolution: Managing dual Version Control System (VCS) pipelines across Git (Unreal Engine) and Perforce (Wwise), resolving complex asset/code merge conflicts, and maintaining repository stability for cross-departmental teams.
Migration Planning & Roadmap: Developing comprehensive, step-by-step technical roadmaps to ensure seamless transitions between audio engines without disrupting active production pipelines.
Foley Studio Coordination & Technical Direction: Managing external Foley studio production pipelines, involving the authoring of precise technical specifications, oversight of deliverables, and strict quality assurance for all incoming content.