Julie Buchanan
music + sound design
About Me
Julie Buchanan is an award-nominated composer and sound designer for games currently living in Berlin. She's currently working with Megapop on their upcoming underwater city-builder "Life Below", and with I Knew It! Games on "Greta Sees Ghosts". Previously she did the audio for Say No! More which was nominated for IGF's Excellence in Audio Award (2021), contributed an anthem pack for Rocket League, did additional sound design for Godfall, and made an original remix for League of Legends: Wild Rift's main theme.
Julie graduated in 2014 from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA as a Film Scoring major and Video Game Scoring minor. Afterwards, she moved to Los Angeles and interned under Henry Jackman and Lorne Balfe at Remote Control Productions. Following her internships Julie started working freelance in game audio and now has almost 11 years of experience. She loves writing electronic music and creating creature and gore sound design. According to her Steam tags, her favorite games include LGBTQ+, dating sims, emotional, procedural generation, and dinosaurs.
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IGF Excellence in Audio Nomination 2021 (Say No! More)
High Score 2021 Opening Keynote Presenter
GDC Audio Summit Speaker 2021
IGDAF Velocity Scholarship Recipient 2019
Pixelles 'Career Ignite Workshop' Mentor 2020
Indiecade Media Choice Award 2017 (You Must be 18 or Older to Enter)
German Developer Award Best Sound Nomination 2021 (Say No! More)
Awards/Nominations
Speaking
Zürich Games Week 2022
Most Wanted: Music 2023 Berlin
GGBavaria 2025 - Audio panel speaker
photo by Lawrence Jung
Projects
composer/sound designer
original music and sound for "Life Below", releasing 2026 by Megapop Studios/Kasedo
composer/sound designer
original sound and music for "Say No! More"
Nominated for IGF's Excellence in Audio Award in 2021. You can find the soundtrack here
additional sound design
additional creature and portal sound design for Godfall. contracted by A Shell in the Pit
composer/sound designer
original music & sound for "Greta sees Ghosts" by I Knew it! Games
composer
original tracks for Soundodger 2 including "Talk About It", "Image of August", and "Loathing"
sound design sub-contracting
additional sound design for Albion Online by Sandbox Interactive
composer
original remix for LOL: Wild Rift main theme "Bring the Wild"
composer/sound designer
original music and sound design for "Cartoon Network's Journeys VR". Music & sound featured in"Beyond Beeville", sound design in "Jest to Impress", and music and sound for the release trailer
Talks & Interviews
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High Score 2021 Opening Keynote Speaker: No-ing Your Way Around Synths
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GDC Audio Summit: Behind the Scenes of the Audio in 'Say No! More' (free to watch)
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GDC Audio Summit: Q&A Lunchtime Surgeries
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Soundbytes Podcast: Ep. 47 - Interview with Julie Buchanan
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The Gaming Nexus Show: The Gaming Nexus Show talks with sound designer and composer Julie Buchanan
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Gamasutra: "Using audio to emphasise the positive power of 'NO!' in Studio Fizbin's Say No! More"