CAIO M. JIACOMINI
Caio Miguel Jiacomini is a video game sound designer and audio software developer. He is passionate about creating distinctive and dynamic audio that elevates gameplay and emotions. He’s comfortable with the whole game audio pipeline, from creative sound design to the technical realm of audio programming.
At Psyonix, he worked on audio for seasons 11 and 12 of Rocket League, where he designed and implemented sounds for several in-game assets and systems, took ownership of the audio post-production for announcement trailers, and even developed proprietary audio software for the game.
Beyond that, he has worked with teams of all sizes in several audio capacities. Some other projects include working as a sound designer and composer on Sondering Studio’s debut title A Taste of the Past, collaborating with Brazilian musical collective Rosabege to develop a mobile game, and working on the indie tactics RPG Starweave as an audio director leading a seven-person audio team.
Another significant project was the expansion of the CsoundUnity library - a solution for real-time audio synthesis for the Unity game engine. Working alongside Dr. Richard Boulanger and Mateo Larrea Ferro, he developed a series of scripts and tools to extend the functionalities of the library, facilitating the development of audio-centric applications. The team developed two VR applications to showcase the tools they built, also publishing a paper about their work at the 6th International Csound Conference held at the Technological University of the Shannons University in Athlone, Ireland.
He was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where he started studying music at the age of ten with an acoustic guitar handcrafted by his own grandfather. In 2017, he moved to the United States to pursue a Bachelor's degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He also develops his own synthesizers for fun and is a co-organizer of the Game Audio Boston meetup group. When he's not being a massive audio nerd, Caio likes to sit outside with a good book while watching over the packs of menacing geese that roam the streets of Boston.