AleksandrBasaev

I trained as a musician — piano at music school, then the choral department of the Ivanovo Regional College of Culture — and have spent eleven years making games sound like something. Most of them at Social Quantum, writing the music and building the sound for titles that millions of people opened every day — Megapolis, Wild West: New Frontier, Ice Age World, Lost Future, Magic High.

The part I care about most is the part a player never notices: audio that answers. A city builder that plays one loop for forty minutes teaches you to reach for the mute button. So most of my work lives in Wwise and Unreal Engine — states, switches, layered stems, music that follows what someone is actually doing instead of following the clock.

Alongside games I design sound for film and series: a scene stripped back to picture and rebuilt from nothing — atmospheres, foley, effects, and a mix that has to hold together in headphones and through a phone speaker both.

I live in Abu Dhabi and work freelance. Since 2025 that has meant an ongoing run of browser game titles for Playnautica — Archer, Fishing and Sea Battle among them.