# Audio Designer / Sound Designer (Game Development) – Remote Unpaid Volunteer / Internship WorkshopEdge is an early-stage software startup focused on building cutting-edge digital products and game development projects. Our team collaborates remotely to create engaging software solutions and interactive experiences while fostering a culture of creativity, learning, and innovation. We provide aspiring professionals with opportunities to gain practical, real-world experience, contribute to meaningful projects, and build industry-ready portfolios in a collaborative startup environment.

You will work on the audio direction and implementation for our upcoming Egyptian-inspired action game, helping create immersive sound effects, environmental audio, combat sounds, puzzle interactions, creature sounds, UI audio, and other audio experiences that support gameplay and atmosphere. The role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating sounds and thinking about how audio can make gameplay feel more impactful, mysterious, tense, immersive, and responsive. ### Key Responsibilities

Design and create sound effects for gameplay, environments, characters, creatures, objects, and interactions.

Create sound effects for combat actions, including attacks, impacts, weapon movements, hits, blocks, dodges, and special attacks.

Design unique audio identities for different enemies, creatures, bosses, and characters.

Create creature sounds such as vocalizations, movement sounds, attacks, breathing, reactions, and death sounds.

Design audio for environmental interactions, including doors, levers, switches, mechanisms, traps, chains, stones, gates, statues, and other interactive objects.

Create audio for environmental puzzles, including puzzle activation, progression, failure, completion, and large-scale environmental changes.

Design sounds for major environmental events such as collapsing structures, moving statues, opening ancient gates, activating mechanisms, breaking objects, and changing environments.

Create ambient soundscapes for forests, ancient ruins, temples, caves, cities, underground areas, and other game environments.

Design atmospheric audio that supports exploration, mystery, tension, danger, and discovery.

Create foley and movement sounds for player characters, enemies, creatures, and environmental objects.

Design footsteps and movement audio for different surfaces such as stone, dirt, sand, grass, wood, metal, and water.





Create UI and menu sounds including button interactions, notifications, confirmations, selections, inventory interactions, and other interface feedback.

Design audio feedback that clearly communicates gameplay events to the player.

Create sounds for collectibles, rewards, checkpoints, progression events, and important discoveries.

Work on audio cues that help players understand gameplay situations without relying entirely on visual information.

Create audio variations and randomized sound sets to prevent repetitive sounds from becoming noticeable during gameplay.

Organize and maintain audio assets with clear naming, categorization, and documentation.

Implement and integrate audio into Unreal Engine using the available audio tools and systems.

Configure sound effects, attenuation, looping, spatial audio, volume, pitch, and other relevant audio properties.

Work with gameplay programmers and designers to connect sounds to gameplay events and interactions.

Collaborate with level designers to place and implement environmental and location-based audio.

Collaborate with environment artists, 3D artists, animators, VFX artists, gameplay programmers, and game designers.

Playtest audio in-game and adjust sounds based on gameplay context, timing, distance, intensity, and player feedback.

Help establish a consistent audio style and sound language for the game's Egyptian-inspired world.

Research and experiment with different sound-design techniques to create distinctive audio for the game.

Contribute ideas for how audio can improve immersion, gameplay clarity, atmosphere, and emotional impact. ### Qualifications

Basic understanding of game audio and sound-design principles.

Strong interest in creating sound effects and audio experiences for games.

Understanding of concepts such as foley, ambience, sound effects, audio layering, timing, spatial audio, and audio feedback.

Interest in creating atmospheric and immersive soundscapes.

Familiarity with audio editing or sound-design software such as Audacity, Reaper, Adobe Audition, FL Studio, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, or similar tools.





Familiarity with Unreal Engine audio systems or willingness to learn them.

Basic understanding of how audio is triggered and implemented inside a game engine is preferred.

Experience with Unreal Engine MetaSounds, Sound Cues, or audio components is a plus, but not mandatory.

Experience with recording, editing, processing, layering, or synthesizing sounds is a plus.

Experience creating creature, combat, environmental, or fantasy sound effects is a plus.

Experience with middleware such as Wwise or FMOD is a plus, but not mandatory.

Knowledge of basic audio concepts such as EQ, compression, reverb, delay, distortion, filtering, and volume automation is a plus.

Previous game-audio projects, game-jam projects, personal projects, student projects, or experiments are preferred but not mandatory.

A portfolio, demo reel, sound-design samples, or examples of previous audio work are welcome, but beginners are encouraged to apply.

Valuable communication and collaboration skills in a remote team environment.

Self-motivated, responsible, and able to work independently on assigned tasks.

Willingness to learn, receive feedback, experiment, and iterate on audio designs.

Passion for games and interest in understanding how audio contributes to gameplay and player experience. ### What You Will Gain Hands-on experience working on a real game development project.

Practical experience with game audio and sound design.

Experience creating sound effects for combat, creatures, environments, puzzles, interactions, and gameplay systems.

Experience designing environmental and atmospheric soundscapes.

Experience creating audio for an Egyptian-inspired action game.

Experience implementing audio inside Unreal Engine.

Experience working with gameplay events and connecting audio to interactive systems.

Experience designing spatial and location-based audio.

Experience with audio iteration, playtesting, mixing, and balancing.

Collaboration experience with game designers, level designers, programmers, animators, VFX artists, and environment artists.

Opportunity to contribute directly to the game's audio direction.

Real-world game-development experience that can be included in your portfolio.

Opportunity to build game-audio and sound-design work suitable for a professional portfolio or demo reel.

Regular feedback and opportunities to improve your sound-design skills.

📌 Audio Designer (India)
🏢 WorkshopEdge
📍 India