Meet the team: Dennis Strillinger 🇩🇪

Audio Project Manager, Germany

Hi! I’m Dennis, and I work as an Audio Project Manager at Native Prime.

The most exciting part of coordinating audio for games is something particular: imagining voices before they exist. When you read messages online, you already hear a voice in your head — you sense humor, tone, intention. It’s the same with game scripts. When I only have the text, I look at character images, read how they speak, and start picturing which voice could fit them best. The moment that character finally comes to life through casting is honestly mind-blowing. 🎧

Of course, there are challenges that keep me on my toes — mostly of a very practical kind. Can I book everyone in time? Will we need to recast? What pronunciation challenges will come up? Managing deadlines, talent availability, and linguistic details is part of the job, and those questions are what make each project exciting in its own way.

What really makes Native Prime feel like the right place for me is the people. You know how companies say “we’re a family”, and most of the time you’d rather move out? Well… here it actually feels true. We’re a team spread across Europe, we support each other without hesitation, and we genuinely see eye to eye. We’re also all nerds — and that helps. 😄

My two biggest passions, gaming and audio/music, come together perfectly here. Working with industry professionals who all share the same goal — bringing games to players in their native language — feels incredibly rewarding. We bring people together through games! 🗺️

When I need inspiration, it really depends on the project. If I’m casting, I’ll listen to the game’s soundtrack, or a previous installment if it’s part of a franchise, to get into the right mindset. For calmer moments, Animal Crossing soundtracks are my go-to background mood. And when I need something with more punch, I’ll put on Zombi (the US band that sounds like 70s prog soundtrack gods Goblin from Italy).

If I could bring one game character into the studio for a recording session, it would be Grimoire Weiss from NieR Replicant. His intellectually smug comments would absolutely tip me over, but he’s so brilliantly written and performed that he’d be my number one choice.

Thanks for reading — see you in the studio!