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AUDIO LEAD | SOUND DESIGNER
CONTACT: toddhelsley@gmail.com
LOCATION: Evansville, IN
Since 2011 I've been combining a love of games and passion for audio excellence into a career.
After 13 years of helping shape the audio experience across five installments of the AAA award-winning Forza Motorsport racing series, I turned my sights on new challenges, genres, and learning experiences. I briefly contracted with Bungie, providing audio design and environment work on Marathon, before joining Polyarc Games as an Audio Lead working in the VR space.
At Polyarc, after shipping their VR Moba, 'Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss', I had the joy of establishing and executing on the audio direction for an unannounced cozy sim project, working with both internal and external partners to realize a unique and delightful world from conception through vertical slice.
I'm now exploring new opportunities, and excited to see what's next!
2026 AUDIO REEL
2026 AUDIO REEL
Gameplay footage showcasing Sound Design, Implementation, Audio Leadership and/or Audio Direction on:
Forza Motorsport 2023 - Turn 10 Studios
Forza Motorsport 7 - Turn 10 Studios
Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss - Polyarc Games
Unannounced Title - Polyarc Games
Sound Design Paint-overs (👂candy)
To practice Sound Design across different aesthetics, these are a series of paintovers of gameplay and cinematic clips. The idea isn't to replicate what was there (often I mute sound while looking for the content so I'm not influenced), but to see how my how I would approach the different genres.
I plan to add more over-time as a continued excersize.
Game Showcase
Detailing some of my work in games (more to come!).
Other Media
BLIND DRIVING ASSISTS
FORZA MOTORSPORTS
BLIND DRIVING ASSISTS
FORZA MOTORSPORTS
The Blind Driving Assists empower low/no-vision players to navigate race tracks and improve their lap times using a suite of audio cues.
It was an incredible experience collborating with Brandon Cole, a blind gamer and consultant, as well as engineers, designers, and other members of the audio team to build these informational audio systems and cues that would bring the racing genre to a wider audience of gamers.
Shipped Titles
Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss - Audio Lead - Polyarc Games
Marathon - Bungie - Lead Audio Designer
Forza Motorsport 2023 - Turn 10 Studios - Senior Sound Supervisor
Forza Motorsport 7 - Turn 10 Studios - Senior Sound Designer
Forza Motorsport 6 - Turn 10 Studios - Technical Audio Lead
Forza Motorsport 5 - Turn 10 Studios - Sound Designer
Forza Motorsport 5 - Turn 10 Studios - Audio QA
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