Posted April 18, 2023
It's rather unfair to separate the music from the rest of the programming anyway.
Most composers and musicians of the late 80s were also programmers and had a big impact on the game design. Chris Hülsbeck (on Amiga) and Jochen Hippel (on Atari ST) may be the two most famous, Hippel creating an Amiga emulation on a ST which then was used by Hülsbeck to create the 7 tone music in Turrican 2. Hippel later used that again to create his own soundformat.
If these musicians don't count, then graphic designers should not count as well. Music and sound design are just as important to how a game feels as the graphics, maybe more.
Pyramid Plunge now renamed to Falling Out was done by a single dev studio called PolyCrunch games
The Shivah by Dave Gilbert / Wajet Eye games
Most composers and musicians of the late 80s were also programmers and had a big impact on the game design. Chris Hülsbeck (on Amiga) and Jochen Hippel (on Atari ST) may be the two most famous, Hippel creating an Amiga emulation on a ST which then was used by Hülsbeck to create the 7 tone music in Turrican 2. Hippel later used that again to create his own soundformat.
If these musicians don't count, then graphic designers should not count as well. Music and sound design are just as important to how a game feels as the graphics, maybe more.
Pyramid Plunge now renamed to Falling Out was done by a single dev studio called PolyCrunch games
The Shivah by Dave Gilbert / Wajet Eye games
Post edited April 18, 2023 by neumi5694