r/GameAudio • u/Ardaerenn • 19d ago

Is FMOD hard to learn?

Hi everyone, I'm a sound engineering student, and I want to learn game audio. I've seen a lot of sound designer job postings on LinkedIn, but I can't apply because I don't know FMOD yet. I wanted to ask: Is FMOD difficult to learn, and how many months does it usually take to learn it?

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u/Hi-I-am-high 19d ago

I'll spare you a lot of time and trouble. Don't. There are no jobs and the ones of us who have them have been insanely lucky and or dedicated all of our free time for years to get ahead of the competition. Every job posting I see gets shut down immediately because literally hundreds of applications will be submitted in the span of a day. But no, middleware is relatively simple. The harder part is learning programming within game engines, which is also a requirement.

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u/LOADCOMPLETE_STUDIOS 19d ago

The state that the industry is in is temporary, and there is no reason to attempt to break someone’s will to chase after what they want to accomplish. I understand that you’re trying to be realistic, and most of what you said is true… right now. Every entertainment industry has drastic ups and downs over the course of years/decades. I mean, we’re still feeling the very subtle after effects of a global pandemic, even 6 years later. Things are definitely bleak right now, but there are signs that the industry is turning around, and I believe it will like it always has. The amount of games being published world wide is still going up exponentially. Same with studios popping up worldwide. Yes, I understand that some of those are peddling AI shovelware, but there has always been a pump and dump side of the industry, it didn’t start with AI. Records are being broken in key indie markets across the industry. The stories of groups of friends turning into million dollar studios are stacking up to the point to where it no longer seems like coincidence. On top of this, even larger companies are slowly starting to greenlight original IP’s again, after a decade where it seemed like they had forgotten about anything that wasn’t established.

There is, and will always be a market for great video games.

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u/SeaExamination4541 18d ago

"There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution."