Nico is a sound designer based on Vancouver Island, Canada, working across games and film. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in sound design, foley, and post-production mixing, he approaches game audio as storytelling: how sound reacts, adapts, and supports the player. He implements his work in FMOD, Wwise, Unreal Engine, and Unity.
Valheim | Spelunky 2 | Red Dead Redemption | Lethal Company
Hylics | Sekiro | The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker | Fallout 3 | Halo 3
Sound Designer on Abyss: Vault, a 2–6 player free-roam VR sci-fi adventure developed by Hololabs Studio, an independent studio here in Victoria, BC. It's a location-based experience, currently touring VR arcades and free-roam venues across North America and Europe.
Gameplay demo of my Winter Village project built in Unreal Engine 5.2 using Wwise audio middleware.
Technical breakdown of my Winter Village project created using Unreal Engine with Wwise middleware. I go through some audio systems that emphasize environmental immersion.
Gameplay audio captured from FMOD project using my redesigned assets. Created using Power Up Audio's FMOD project made available for educational purposes.
Walkthrough of the FMOD project and assets for level 2: "Old Site".
Cinematic redesign using a mixture of recorded foley, library assets, and audio processing.
A gameplay chase sequence redesigned from the psychological thriller game Outlast.
Full audio redesign of cinematic trailer, blending atmospheric sound design with original foley.
Gameplay sound redesign for open-world survival horror, focusing on environmental threats and locomotion feedback.
Audio redesign of the cinematic trailer for Skate Story, emphasising texture and momentum.
Complete redesign emulating the realism in the foley and sfx of this series.
Gameplay audio redesign for The Pathless with a focus on the interplay between movement, environment, and gameplay telegraphy.
Sound redesign for the abstract action platformer GONNER2, leaning into its surreal aesthetic with some playful sound design.
Contributing sound designer and implementer on Skywind, a large-scale volunteer total conversion project recreating The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind within the Skyrim engine. An ongoing, long-form collaboration with a distributed community team. Contributed various foley, sfx, and ambience assets as well as engine-side implementation in CK
Sound design & Foley. Nominated for Best Sound at the 2025 Leo Awards.
Sound design & Foley. 2025 Leo Award winner for Best Sound.
Sound Design & Foley.
Additional Foley & Sound Design. 2025 Leo Award winner for Best Sound.
A REAPER Lua tool for film spotting sessions. Scans project markers, matches them against user-defined rules, and commits MIDI notes to specified tracks automatically — with a rule-card UI, a live mini-timeline, and saveable/loadable presets.
A REAPER Lua script that bakes Take FX onto media items while preserving the full original source file length, so item handles can still be pulled out to the original file's boundaries.
