VOICE +
DIALOGUE DESIGN

CHARLES PATEMAN
DIALOGUE DESIGNER / SUPERVISOR

SHOWREEL 2025

Showreel 2025

CREDITS

Star Wars Outlaws
Massive Entertainment

2024

Voice Design, Crowd Design, Pre-mix, Mastering, Implementation, Casting

Hyenas
Creative Assembly

Cancelled

Voice Design, Mastering, Implementation, Casting

Total War: Three Kingdoms
Creative Assembly

2019

Crowd Design, Implementation, Casting

Total War: Arena
Creative Assembly

2018

Crowd Design

Total War Saga: Thrones Of Britannia
Creative Assembly

Crowd Design, Mastering, Implementation, Dialogue Editing, Casting

Total War: Rome II - Empire Divided
Creative Assembly

2017

Casting, Mastering, Dialogue Editing

Total War: Warhammer II
Creative Assembly

Voice Design, Crowd Design, Mastering, Implementation

Halo Wars 2
Creative Assembly | Soundcuts

Sound Design, Implementation

Horizon Zero Dawn
OMUK | Guerrilla Games

Dialogue Recording & Editing

Robinson: The Journey
OMUK | Crytek

2016

Dialogue Editing

Sunless Sea: Zubmariner
Soundcuts | Failbetter Games

Sound Design

Deponia Doomsday
OMUK | Daedalic Entertainment

Dialogue Editing

Fable Legends
Lionhead Studios | Soundcuts

Cancelled

Sound Design, Implementation, Dialogue Mastering

Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide
OMUK | Fatshark

Dialogue Recording & Editing

Alienation
OMUK | Housemarque

Dialogue Editing

The Dwarves
OMUK | King Art Games

2015

Dialogue Recording & Editing

Blues And Bullets
OMUK | A Crowd of Monsters

Dialogue Editing

Overview

CHARLES PATEMAN

From an early age, I’ve had a deep fascination with the evocative nature of sound - in particular, how voice can make an invented world feel authentic and lived-in. I’ve been working with voice in audio for over twenty years, ten of them in the games industry. My goal is to explore how my craft can amplify the player’s experience and deliver more effectively for development teams.

The human voice is a powerful psychological tool with enormous potential, but it is complex to develop for games and touches almost every discipline.

Good dialogue design (also known as voice design) comprises detailed knowledge of voice and performance, audio design thinking, recording pipelines, and the technical acumen to orchestrate disparate voice features to work together flawlessly.

In dialogue design, you need to be adept at planning for a number of eventualities, and I have a keen eye for identifying challenges and opportunities in equal measure, ensuring that voice stays both on time and on tone, and ultimately remains in service of a project’s creative direction.

Whether it’s VO mastering which supports both creative and technical aspects of your mix, or developing the crowd walla that transforms static environments into living, breathing ecosystems, my approach to dialogue design can help you steer past the elephant traps and get it right the first time.