Pressure Cooker Studios

Country: South Africa

Founded: 2010

Team Size: 11-50

Platforms: PC, Console, Mobile, VR

Focus: Game audio, music composition, sound design, game implementation

Status: Active

Website: https://pressurecookerstudios.co.za/

Overview

Pressure Cooker Studios is a South African music and audio production studio working across gaming, film, television and advertising. Founded in 2010, the studio has grown from a basement operation into a 17-person creative team, with dedicated facilities in Cape Town including Dolby Atmos theatres, a Foley stage, tracking rooms and composition and audio edit suites.

Its gaming division provides original music composition, sound design, final mixing, Foley, dialogue editing, music supervision and game implementation. The studio has worked on games including Manor Lords, Ancient Dungeon, Airborn, Semblance, Total Overdrive and Yokozuna Clash.

Pressure Cooker composed the original soundtrack for Manor Lords, working with the game's developer over two years and recording period instruments, a live string ensemble and choir at AIR Studios in London.

The studio is also focused on developing local talent. It partnered with Cape Town's Academy of Digital Arts on Amanzi, an incubator project giving game development students experience working on a professional game production.

Pressure Cooker has also been recognised by Audiokinetic's Wwise Creators Directory as a certified content provider, becoming the first South African studio listed in that capacity.

Key People

• James Matthes - CEO