Guy Whitmore is a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

specializing in

video game music Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to ...

, notable for creating the soundtracks to ''

Captain Claw ''Claw'' is a 2D side-scroller platform video game published by Monolith Productions in 1997 about an anthropomorphic pirate cat who sets on a quest to find an ancient amulet while fighting enemies and solving puzzles. It is Monolith's second r ...

'', '' Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza'', '' Russian Squares'', ''

Peggle 2 ''Peggle 2'' is a puzzle video game, casual puzzle video game developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts. It is the official sequel to ''Peggle'' (2007), although a Peggle Nights, previous follow-up to the PC game was released in ...

'', '' Shivers'', '' Shivers II: Harvest of Souls'', ''

Blood Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the c ...

'', '' Blood II: The Chosen'', '' Shogo: Mobile Armor Division'' and ''

No One Lives Forever ''The Operative: No One Lives Forever'' (abbreviated as ''NOLF'') is a first-person shooter video game with stealth gameplay elements, developed by Monolith Productions and published by Fox Interactive, released for Windows in 2000. The game w ...

''. He is the co-founder of a music production company called Music Design Network, and a founding member of the Seattle Composers Alliance. Guy Whitmore has specialized in creating "adaptive music" for

video games Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device to gener ...

, using techniques such as cross-fading, location-based music, and techniques to render music "on-the-fly" rather than using "pre-rendered" linear tracks.

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OverClocked ReMix OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by vari ...

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