Creating Game Sound with Unreal - Overview

Q. I have never used Unreal before. Can I still take the course?

Yes, the course curriculum is organized in order of difficulty, starting with the Unreal installation. If you follow along step by step from the beginning, you'll be able to follow along without much difficulty. Just give it a try! It's not that hard once you actually try it, so don't be afraid!

Q. Why should I learn Unreal to become a game sound designer?

Companies hiring sound developers are often working on large-scale games or projects, and most large-scale game projects are developed using Unreal Engine these days. Therefore, learning Unreal Engine is essential for employment.

If you're applying to a company that develops with Unity, you don't need to learn Unreal. However, if you're looking to move to a larger company, you'll eventually need to learn Unreal. That means, as you level up, you'll eventually encounter Unreal, so it's a good idea to learn it while you're young, right?

As you'll see from the course curriculum, a sound designer is someone who applies, operates, and programs sound in games, as well as manages and registers sound data. While they're called sound designers in name only, in practice, most work is done in Unreal Engine, rather than a DAW.

Q. Will taking this course help me get a job at a gaming company?

Yes, 100%, 1000%, 10000%. Of course, this assumes you have the skills to create game sounds.

If you have similar sound design skills, who would have a better job prospect: someone who took this course and learned Unreal skills, or someone who didn't?

On the other hand, if you were the CEO of a company and offered the same salary, who would you rather work with: someone with similar sound design skills who only knows how to do sound design, or someone who can freely direct and express sounds with Unreal and can implement sound work that all the planning programmers in the company would have to do on their own, and who can solve technical problems to enrich the sound expression in Unreal?