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Daryn Rowse

SFX Design


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Avant Guard - SFX Design, Voice-line Editing & Synthesis

Flapjack

Penny

Avant Guard Itch.io

Game Audio (Linear Re-dubs)

Sounds recorded with Tascam DR-05X or sourced from Splice

Playdead's 'INSIDE' (re-dub)

Unfold Game's 'DARQ' (re-dub)

ThatGameCompany's 'Sky: Children of the Light' (re-dub)

Current Projects (Ongoing)

Born To Die

An indie point and click visual novel made with Unity, created by VanillaInTheAbyss. My role is SFX designer, dialogue editor, foley artist, and composer.

Born To Die Progress Update - VanillaInTheAbyss

Avant Guard

A 3D arena fighter originating as a 2026 senior capstone and spawning our indie corporation. My role is SFX designer and voice-line editor.

Primary Director - Mateo Rodriguez

Operation Scoville

A 2d tower defense game made with Unity, and in partnership with publisher. My role is SFX designer and Composer.

First Place - UMBC Hackathon Game Jam 25'

24 Hour SFX Design and Composition with Digitakt II and Logic Pro

Itch.io Demo
Sound Assets
HackUMBC
combat kameleon · A.R.C.A.D.E (First Place in UMBC '25 Hackathon Full Score)

A.R.C.A.D.E (Full Score)

HackUMBC26 Game Jamathon Submission - Royal Vineyard

All implemented sounds and instruments were recorded acoustically within the HackUMBC location and timeframe.

No presets, no recycled sounds, 100% true to the nature of a Jamathon.

24 hour SFX Design and Composition

24 hour SFX Design and Composition

Itch.io
Sound Assets
Slide Show
bu2xg · Royal Vineyard (Full Original Soundtrack)

Special Projects

Soundscript Entry 01

An SFX translation and narrative design practice

Water to ice

An audiovisual study on the transition between water and ice. Made with Touch Designer and Reaper.

Soundscape Therapy

A concept project with neuroscience undergraduate Maia Lee and information science undergraduate Danny Mallya, under Professor Myungin Lee of UMD's Computer Science Department.

Concept

The embedded video shows our groups final project: a 50-track audio system grouping 10 sets of 5, where users emotional inputs to 10 therapeutic questions unmute tracks to form a personalized soundscape and digital environment; developed in Unity with clinical research and transformed into a real-time EEG-guided meditation system.

Adaptive Audio System for Soundscape Therapy

Made with Pixpa