Hi! We’re looking for a professional Sound Designer to help us with our new game Hiboka. The game is a third person survival horror game base on Malagasy folklore and set around the middle of the last century. We are aiming for a horrific yet beautiful setting with music and ambient sound that can have a mix of western and Malagasy influences.

Job Description:

• Create and integrate adaptive sound effects in FMOD.
• Create and integrate adaptive ambient sounds and melodies.
• Create and integrate audio for cutscenes.
• Review and live-edit audio in-game for proper mixing.
• Potentially work with other music composer in order to make their music adaptive.
• This is a paid part-time freelance position. Work is done remotely and/or in person.

Requirements:

• You are familiar with concepts of Adaptive Audio and working with FMOD.
• You are comfortable working with the designer to make sure the adaptive audio work well in the game.
• The job may require to create sounds from Madagascar based on object or music instruments from that region.
• You released 1 game in the past and/or you can produce 1 recommendation from a peer either on your LinkedIn profile or as a recommendation letter from a recent project.
• You are willing to follow our studio technical guidelines when producing assets.
• You are willing to work remotely and meet at least once a week in person or online to share feedback.
• You are willing to take criticism and work with the team if changes need to be made.
• You are committed to produce assets regularly until the end of the project.
• You are professional and you deliver on deadlines.

Bonus Points:

• You like horror games.
• You like to create horrific melodies and sound.
• You have an interest in African melodies and sound.
• You have a bit of experience using Unity.
• You know a little bit about us.

Who are we?

Flying Carpets Games is an independent video game studio founded in Montreal on July 2012. We released a first action-adventure game called The Girl and the Robot on the PS4, Wii U and Steam, and now we are working on a second game. We are very passionate about the craft of making game and we are looking for people with the same passion.
Website: https://flyingcarpetsgames.com/

The horror game we’re now working on is called Hiboka; you can check out the initial pitch and other assets in our press kit!
If you have a windows PC, you can also check our latest build here.

If you are interested and want to hear more about our project, please send me a link to your portfolio to:
Salim at info[at]flyingcarpetsgames.com (replace [at] by @)

Also, please understand that due to the number of applications, we might not always reply back.