Tomorrow’s audio-focused Dreams update introduces monstrous vocal effects

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Another Dreams update is here! If we listen closely, we can hear the screams of joy from players all over the world… Oh no, wait. That’s game audio playing in our headphones. Makes sense, as this latest Dreams update – V2.42, available to download from April 7 – brings a huge collection of professionally-made and recorded monster screams, growls, grunts and gurgles for you to use in your creations. 

Captured on PS4 Pro.  

“Why monster sound effects?,” you may well ask. For the release of our latest game, Ancient Dangers: A Bat’s Tale, we worked with the talented team at The Monster Factory, who voiced all manner of creatures, orcs and dragons for the game. We were so pleased with the results that we wanted to make this amazing audio available for the CoMmunity to use and remix into anything they can imagine.

What makes our monsters’ hellacious howls so high-quality? Well, firstly, good old-fashioned collaboration between The Monster Factory and Media Molecule teams. 

“Tom [Colvin] and Lisa [Devon] had a clear vision about what they wanted for their monsters,” says Sébastian Croteau, co-founder of The Monster Factory. Croteau listened to their audio references, and then kicked off the casting process in Montreal. The team stayed true to the voice direction they were given, but also put their own spin on the monsters’ characters. 

“It just came naturally,” Croteau says. “We can get a lot from how the monsters look, their body type and facial features. Those visual elements really help shape our sound creation and design process.” 

But there’s something else that gives Croteau’s voice acting work an edge: his experience as the lead singer of a death metal band, Necrotic Mutation. 

“Being a throat-singer and a metal vocalist