Dialogue Designer - Contract

2 Months ago • All levels • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Playground Games seeks a Dialogue Designer for their Fable team on a contract basis. Responsibilities include assisting with voice-over recording and implementation, managing outsourced engagements, reviewing assets, attending casting and voice-over sessions (requiring travel), and collaborating with localization studios. Experience working on at least one published AAA title as a Dialogue Designer is preferred, along with experience working with actors in a recording studio environment and familiarity with DAWs, FMOD/Wwise, and microphone techniques. The role requires excellent communication, a keen ear for audio, and a passion for game audio.
Must have:
  • AAA title experience as Dialogue Designer
  • Recording studio experience with actors
  • Knowledge of DAWs, FMOD/Wwise
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Keen ear for audio detail
Good to have:
  • Acting coaching/voice direction
  • Understanding of in-game dialogue systems
Perks:
  • Relocation assistance

Job Details

Description

Playground Games is looking for a Dialogue Designer to join our Fable team on a contract basis. 

About us:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre. 

About the role:

As Dialogue Designer, you will work closely with the Audio, Cinematic, Design, and Narrative teams. You will work with actors and voice over directors to deliver top tier quality vocal performances. 
This is a contract role based at our studio in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.   

What you will do:

  • Assist with the recording and implementation of all voice over in the game.

  • Assist with the management of outsource engagements and review delivered assets.

  • Be willing to travel to multiple voice over studios to be on site for casting and voice-over sessions.

  • Work with localisation studios to deliver a global release.

What you will bring:

  • Work on at least one published AAA title as Dialogue Designer preferred
  • Experience working with actors in a recording studio environment
  • Acting coaching/voice direction experience preferred
  • A detailed knowledge of the most common digital audio workstations and plugins
  • Knowledge of FMOD and / or Wwise, ideally having shipped AAA games using either
  • An incredibly keen ear for audio production detail and understanding of microphone technique.
  • An understanding of in-game dialogue systems and pipelines preferred, as well as the ability to adapt to new technology and game engine tools
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A passion for game audio and lead an active gaming lifestyle

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.  
Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity.  We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.   
We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members.  It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players.  We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  
At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work. 
If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com 

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About The Company

Playground Games was established in 2010, bringing together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry, with the vision to create genre-defining titles for a global audience. Since then, we’ve created five critically-acclaimed, award-winning hits; our Horizon games have garnered more than one hundred awards and have been played by many millions of fans. 


Today, Playground has two world-class studios in Leamington Spa. In our original HQ, we continue to support and grow the huge, vibrant Horizon community. In our new studio on the other side of town, we are excited to be developing Fable, a new beginning for the legendary franchise.

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