Game Sound Design for Game Designers: Growing into a Designer Who Leads Audio Quality

Are you just writing 'Please make cool sounds' in your project proposal?

Sound determines a game's impact and immersion, and the more specifically a planner designs it, the more the game's quality improves. However, without audio knowledge, you've been at a loss about how to make requests, haven't you?

It's perfectly fine if you don't know anything about sound. This course is designed to explain the core principles of sound design in the language of planners. You can start right here.

From impact feel, UI response, and environmental sounds to slightly unfamiliar terms like ducking, layering, and trigger design.
We'll go through each core element that makes up game sound, explaining what role they play in actual games and how they should be designed.

The sound design theories and real-world examples covered in this course will provide immediately applicable knowledge that can be used across all genres, including action, RPG, soulslike, and mobile games.

Now become a game designer who communicates with the audio team using clear concepts and terminology, rather than vague expressions.

You'll learn this content

Section 1. Understanding the Fundamentals of Game Sound Design

In games, sound is not simply 'something to be heard' but a 'signal' that provides information to players.
How do unconscious background sounds differ from conscious sounds that alert players to danger? From a game designer's perspective, we define the role and structure of sound, and establish a foundation for logically explaining "Why is this sound necessary?" We also gain an understanding of the bigger picture of development through failure cases and the overall production pipeline.

Section 2. Essential Sound Terms and Concepts for Game Designers

No more vague expressions like "You know, that grand feeling?"
Essential concepts every planner must know: Diegetic, Non-linearity, 3D Audio, and other core concepts are clearly explained. You'll understand that sound isn't just a collection of effect files, but operates as a complete 'system' responsible for the game's spatial sense and immersion.

Section 3. Sound Direction Techniques that Bring Game Mechanics to Life

How is the impact of combat and the satisfying feedback when pressing buttons created?
Learn production strategies that maximize gameplay fun, such as Adaptive Music that changes according to the situation, and sound effect design methods that don't get boring even after hundreds of listens. We'll also clearly define what role sound middleware like Wwise or FMOD plays and how much a game designer needs to know.

Section 4. Details and Atmosphere: Creating an In-Depth Experience

The difference between an ordinary game and a high-quality game lies in the 'details'.
Learn how technical elements such as layering, which creates texture by overlapping sounds, and occlusion, which makes sounds muffled when heard from behind walls, enhance the realism of games. Discover the principles and applications of how sometimes 'silence' and 'contrast' can be more powerful directing tools than flashy sounds.

Section 5. Practical Workflow: From Planning Document Creation to QA

This is the final stage of implementing your ideas into an actual game.
Learn about mixing priorities that determine which sounds should be heard more prominently, optimization considering mobile/PC environments, and even the often-overlooked sound QA checklist—covering the A to Z of practical work. Above all, become the best collaboration partner through clear planning request document writing methods that even audio teams acknowledge as "easy to work with."

This is recommended for those who

• "Sound design document, where do I even start?" Junior planners with 1-3 years of experience feeling lost

• "Just make it... more epic, please." For those who find themselves at a loss for words every time they give feedback to the audio team

• "Why does it feel so unsatisfying?" For those who have been hurt by feedback that combat and sound effects don't sync well

• "Decking? Layering?" A planner who shrinks during every meeting because they don't know the terminology

• "The game is fun, but the sound..." An indie developer struggling because the game's appeal is diminished due to sound quality

After taking the course, you will see these changes

• With 'Logic', Not 'Intuition': Instead of vague feelings, you'll design sound with systematic structure and principles.

• A Clear Analytical Eye: You'll develop solid 'criteria' to explain why a sound works well or feels awkward.

• Master Practical Terminology: Enhance details by using professional terms such as ducking, layering, and priority in the right context.

• Beloved Collaboration Partner: You'll write clear specifications that make audio teams and developers exclaim, "This is so easy to work with!"

• From Start to Finish: Gain practical skills to lead the entire sound production workflow, from prototype to launch.

Features of This Course

All lecture slides are provided as PDF files.

The slides used in the lecture are provided as PDF materials for review.
By utilizing these materials, you can take notes directly on the PDF or print them out for note-taking,
and refer to them frequently when designing your own projects or portfolios.

Clear explanations using AI voice and condensed progression enable efficient learning.

Like my other courses, this course was also recorded using AI voice. Since I used the latest AI model, it delivers the course content with accurate pronunciation and natural explanations that rival professional voice actors.

All lectures were recorded and edited using pre-prepared lecture scripts, resulting in the most condensed lectures with not a single second of wasted time.

Additionally, thanks to AI's accurate pronunciation, nearly 100% accurate automatic subtitles are generated. This enables improved delivery of lecture content to those who watch classes with subtitles enabled.

And I've added slight variations to the AI voice for each lecture. Therefore, you can listen without getting bored, as if each lecture is being explained by a different instructor.

Notes Before Enrollment