Monthly Sound Design Challenges at Jagex

February 2024 myself and Andrew Dodds began hosting a somewhat monthly sound design challenge at Jagex. We pick clips and give everyone on the audio team ~ 1 month to complete the challenge. We have tried setting limitations and or requirements but this seems to prevent accessablity to giving them a go due to time constraints.

We wanted to give people clips away from our usualy 'high-fantasy' genre of our Jagex games. We have been doing the 'SDC's' for 1 year now and I'm super happy we gave it the time to develop. People really enjoy giving them a go and coming together to critique each others at the end of the month.

Sometimes people just give one element of the video clips a go as they can't afford the time so we critique what's presented and not what's missing.

I, alongside Andrew, want to continue with these challenges, we have one lined up for next months which is spaceship travelling / movement. Looking at uploading all my attempts when I upgrade my Wix membership to upload media.

SDC's have become a fantastic part of our team's monthly practice and I would encourage any team to have a similar challenge at a cadence that fits that team.

Happy sound designing,

Oliver.