Yannis Brown is an

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composer and sound designer for portable devices and consoles. He grew up in

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. He began playing keyboards by ear at the age of 4 and started composing music around the age of 13. He then moved on to writing MOD tracker formats on the

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since 1989 and later IBM PC around 1993. He was heavily involved with the music part of the

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and ran Groovy Compo - a bi-weekly tracker based internet competition first started by Mick Rippon. He also entered other similar competitions, including The Trackering. Brown has since joined the game industry as a composer and sound designer and has written music for several handheld platforms including:

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, Tapwave Zodiac and

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s such as the

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N-Gage, iOS and Android; notably, in 1999, he wrote the soundtrack for '' South Park Rally'' and for composing and porting the score from '' Dragon Ball Z'' to ''Legacy Of Goku 2'' and ''Buu's Fury'' for Game Boy Advance. He also helped produce audio for many top Web & iOS titles from developers such as NGMoco, PlayFish Games, PopCap Games and AnkiDrive. His career in the games industry has also included working in-house for multiple companies such as Ratbag Games aka

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Australia,

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on ''Gauntlet DS'', ''Death Jr 2 - Root of Evil'' and Trion Worlds - most notably ''RIFT'' & ''Trove''. He has links with Astraware and has written music for several of their handheld games including: ''Toucan Tango'', ''Candy Train'', ''Crazy Daisy'', ''Rocket Mania'', ''Super Bounce Out'', ''Cubis'', '' Mazera'' and '' Bejeweled''. Yannis also composed tracks for '' Warblade''. Yannis worked on the

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adaptation of '' The Wolves in the Walls'', which won a 2022

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in the Immersive & Interactive category.

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