PLAYING YOUR ROLE HOW TO BECOME A GAME SOUND DESIGNER

Adele Cutting is a BAFTA award-winning creator and producer of sound and dialogue for video games whose extensive and illustrious track record includes Dungeon Keeper 2, Theme Park World, F1, the Harry Potter franchise, The Room franchise, and Shadow of the Beast, not to mention her work in film and animation.

Before founding her own sound services company Soundcuts in 2011 she was an audio head honcho for Electronic Arts. She arrived there in ’97 just as the massive worldwide video game developer and publisher was starting to take its game audio very seriously. Well ahead of the curve, EA was investing in pro-audio talent and world-class studio facilities while other game developers were still sticking egg cartons on walls.

Adele was snapped up for a rare junior position in the EA UK sound department just as she emerged from the more ‘linear’ audio training at the UK’s renowned National Film & Television School and a