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Straylight Productions
Straylight Productions was a team of video game music composers and producers, founded in 1994. Overview The founding musicians were Andrew Sega and Dan Gardopée, joined later by Alexander Brandon. Straylight composed soundtracks for Origin Systems' '' Crusader'' series. They also worked with Epic Games, for whom music was produced for ''Unreal'', ''Unreal Tournament'', '' Tyrian'', and '' Jazz Jackrabbit 2'' (the original ''Jazz Jackrabbit'' music was by Epic's own Robert A. Allen). Their last project was the soundtrack for Ion Storm's ''Deus Ex''. Alexander Brandon was assisted by Michiel van den Bos with some of the soundtracks, although Van den Bos was not a part of Straylight. Andrew Sega had all but left the company before the soundtrack for ''Unreal'' was started, but as an "honorary member" of Straylight, a cleaned-up version of his "Isotoxin" piece, minus the introduction, was included in the soundtrack. Likewise, his "Mechanism Eight" piece was included in the ''Unrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Sega
Andrew Gregory Sega ( ; born May 20, 1975), also known as Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He was a member of the synthpop duo Iris from 2001 until its disbandment in 2021. In 2020, he founded the dark wave duo Hallowed Hearts. Sega is the owner of the independent record label Diffusion Records. His main solo project is known as The Alpha Conspiracy. Biography Andrew Sega was born on May 20, 1975, in Providence, Rhode Island and lived the majority of his young life in Upstate New York. His interest in music began when he was 7 years old, when he started playing and experimenting with an electronic organ he had in his house. He later started taking lessons with an organist from a Polish church in Rome, New York, where he learned almost exclusively baroque music. Later in high school he learned to play other instruments, including bass clarinet and piano. Sega' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ion Storm
Ion Storm, L.P. was an American video game developer founded by video game industry veterans John Romero and Tom Hall, both formerly of id Software. Despite an impressive pedigree and high expectations, the company only produced one commercial and critical success, 2000's ''Deus Ex (video game), Deus Ex''. The company was founded in Dallas, Texas in November 1996; a branch in Austin, Texas was opened in 1997. In April 1999, Eidos Interactive acquired 51% of the company in exchange for advances to the developers. The Dallas studio closed in July 2001, leaving the Austin studio as the new headquarters. After financial struggles at Eidos Interactive, the Austin studio followed with its own closure in February 2005. History Formation Ion Storm was founded by John Romero, Tom Hall, Todd Porter and Jerry O'Flaherty on November 15, 1996, with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Hall came up with the name, the "Storm" part coming from Porter's first project for the company. The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Regret
No Regret may refer to: * ''No Regret'' (album), a 2000 album by Lonnie Gordon * ''No Regret'' (film), a 2006 South Korean film * "No Regret" (song), a 2006 song by Kumi Koda * ''No Regret'' (1986 film), a South Korean film starring Nam Koong Won * ''No Regret'' (1987 film), a Hong Kong film starring Carol Yeung Ling * ''Crusader: No Regret'', a 1996 action computer game See also * No Regret Life No Regret Life is a Japanese rock band. History No Regret Life was founded in 2001 in Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan, by Kazusō Oda, Ryūta Hashiguchi, and Yuka Shimokariya, who was later replaced by Genta Matsumura. They played live shows before r ..., a Japanese rock band * No Regrets (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrian (video Game)
''Tyrian'' is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Eclipse Software for MS-DOS and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames. ''Tyrian'' was programmed by Jason Emery, illustrated by Daniel Cook, and its music composed by Alexander Brandon and Andras Molnar. The game was re-released as freeware in 2004. A free and open-source port of the game started in April 2007. Plot The game is set in the year 20,031. The player takes on the role of Trent Hawkins, a skilled spaceship pilot. While on the planet Tyrian, a hostile drone shoots his best friend, Buce Quesillac. Before dying Buce warns Trent that the drone belonged to the militaristic MicroSol megacorporation. MicroSol has discovered Gravitium (the game's brand of Unobtainium) on Tyrian and seeks to keep it a secret. Now on MicroSol's hit list, Trent manages to secure a small, armed spacecraft and set out the free world of Savara. Gameplay ''Tyrian'' is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. It was developed chiefly as a hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Remorse
No Remorse may refer to: * ''No Remorse'' (Motörhead album), 1984 * No Remorse (band), a British neo-Nazi rock band formed in 1986 * "No Remorse" (song), a song on the 1983 Metallica album ''Kill 'Em All'' * "No Remorse (I Wanna Die)", a song by Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot on the 1997 ''Spawn'' sountrack album * No Remorse Records No Remorse Records was a German Heavy metal music, heavy metal record label. It was the original record label of heavy metal band Blind Guardian. Discography *NRR 1001: Blind Guardian - ''Battalions of Fear'' *NRR 1002: Dimple Minds - ''Blau auf'm ..., a German heavy metal record label * ''Crusader: No Remorse'', the first title in the action video game series ''Crusader'' (game series) * ''No Remorse'' (Tokyo Blade album), 1989 * '' Jesse Stone: No Remorse'', 2010 American television mystery film {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Kaufman
Jake Kaufman (born 1981; also known as virt or virtjk) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of ''Q*bert''. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as the ''Shantae'' series, ''Contra 4'', '' Red Faction: Guerrilla,'' '' DuckTales: Remastered'', ''Shovel Knight'', and ''Crypt of the Necrodancer''. Biography Kaufman dropped out of high school with what he describes as "a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuromancer
''Neuromancer'' is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. It was Gibson's debut novel and the beginning of the Sprawl trilogy. Set in the future, the novel follows Henry Case, a washed-up hacker hired for one last job, which brings him in contact with a powerful artificial intelligence. Background Before ''Neuromancer'', Gibson had written several short stories for US science fiction periodicals—mostly noir countercultural narratives concerning low-life protagonists in near-future encounters with cyberspace. The themes he developed in this early short fiction, the Sprawl setting of "Burning Chrome" (1982), and the character of Molly Millions from "Johnny Mnemonic" (1981) laid the foundations for the novel. John Carpenter's ''Escape from New York'' (1981) influenced the novel; Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term " cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel ''Neuromancer'' (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. After expanding on the story in ''Neuromancer'' with two more novels (''Count Zero'' in 1986, and ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' in 1988), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiel Van Den Bos
Michiel "M.C.A." van den Bos (born 23 May 1975) is a Dutch musician who composes primarily for Epic Games and Triumph Studios. He began composing on the Commodore 64 and Amiga before making the transition to composing professional soundtracks for video games such as '' Unreal'', ''Unreal Tournament'', ''Deus Ex'', and the ''Overlord'' series. His most recent project is the soundtrack of '' Age of Wonders: Planetfall''. According to an interview, his influences are LTJ Bukem, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Martin Galway, Underworld, Rob Hubbard, Jeroen Tel, Ben Daglish, Carcass, At the Gates, Insomnium, PFM and Artemis. Van den Bos is also an active indie/alternative DJ. Video game credits * 1998 – '' Unreal'' (and the mission pack, '' Return to Na Pali'') * 1999 – '' Age of Wonders'' * 1999 – ''Unreal Tournament'' * 2000 – ''Deus Ex'' * 2007 – ''Overlord'' * 2007 – '' Overlord: Raising Hell'' * 2009 – '' Overlord: Dark Legend'' * 2009 – ''Overlord II'' * 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deus Ex (video Game)
''Deus Ex'' is a 2000 action role-playing game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. Set in a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world in the year 2052, the game follows JC Denton, an agent of the fictional agency United Nations Anti-Terrorist Coalition (UNATCO), who is given superhuman abilities by nanotechnology, as he sets out to combat hostile forces in a world ravaged by inequality and a deadly plague. His missions entangle him in a conspiracy that brings him into conflict with the Triads, Majestic 12, and the Illuminati. ''Deus Ex''s gameplay combines elements of the first-person shooter with stealth elements, adventure, and role-playing genres, allowing for its tasks and missions to be completed in a variety of ways, which in turn lead to differing outcomes. Presented from the first-person perspective, the player can customize Denton's various abilities such as weapon skills or lockpicking, increasing his effectiveness in these areas; this opens up differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Gardopée
Daniel Gardopée a.k.a. Dan Grandpre (a.k.a. Basehead in the tracker community) is an American electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions. He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and Kosmic Free Music Foundation. As part of Straylight Productions, his music was featured in many games, including '' Crusader: No Remorse'', '' Crusader: No Regret'', ''Unreal'', ''Unreal Tournament'' and ''Deus Ex''. Gardopée co-composed three CD albums, ''AtmosphereS: Cultures'', ''AtmosphereS: Moods'' and ''AtmosphereS: Pulses'', together with Alexander Brandon. In 2001, he had a single track release under the Basehead alias. This release was titled ''Beacon'' and was released by the netlabel Monotonik Records. Since 2005, Gardopée has worked in-house at 2K Games, primarily as an audio engineer for the ''NBA 2K'' and ''WWE 2K'' series. He also writes reviews for Pitchfork Media. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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