List of video game musicians
Appearance
The following is a list of computer and video game musicians, those who have worked in the
video game soundtracks or otherwise contribute musically. A broader list of major figures in the video game industry
is also available.
For a full article, see video game music. The list is sorted in alphabetical order by last name.
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- Rod Abernethy – The Hobbit, Star Trek: Legacy, King Arthur, Rise of the Kasai, Blazing Angels, Marvel Universe, The Gauntlet, The Sims Bustin' Out
- Masamichi Amano – Quest 64
- Mega Man Battle & Chase
- Noriyuki Asakura – Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, Way of the Samurai, Way of the Samurai 2, Kamiwaza
B
- EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey
- Angelo Badalamenti – Indigo Prophecy
- Kelly Bailey – Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal
- Clint Bajakian – Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Crypt of the Necrodancer and The Binding of Isaac
- Stephen Barton[1] – Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Titanfall series, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Joe Basquez – Ultima Online
- Flashback: The Quest for Identity
- Need for Speed: Shift 2 Unleashed
- Robin Beanland – Killer Instinct series, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Sea of Thieves
- Ratchet and Clank series, Resistance: Fall of Man
- Daniel Bernstein – Blood, Claw
- Teddy Blass – Chain Shooter, Fortune's Prime
- Battlestar Galactica, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, Bejeweled 3(with Peter Hajba)
- Allister Brimble – Alien Breed, Superfrog, RollerCoaster Tycoon, Driver, Driver 2, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2
- Starcraft 2
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
- David Buckley — Shrek Forever After (video game), additional music for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Batman: Arkham Knight and Batman: Arkham VR with Nick Arundel
C
- Sean Callery – James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, 24: The Game
- Autumn Moon Entertainment)
- Split/Second, Chime, Driver: San Francisco, The Secret World, Infamous First Light, Infamous Second Son
- Prince of Persia: Rival Swords
- Jun Chikuma – Faxanadu, Adventure Island, Bomberman series
- Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle-Earth, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Elia Cmíral – The Last Express
- Combichrist – DmC: Devil May Cry
- Gareth Coker – Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Ark: Survival Evolved, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Halo Infinite
- Tomb Raider series
- Spyro the Dragon to Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly), Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
- Normand Corbeil – Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls
- Jonathan Coulton – Portal, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2
- Jessica Curry - Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapturee
D
- Ben Daglish
- Killzone series, Horizon Zero Dawn
- Charles Deenen – M.C. Kids, The Lost Vikings (with Allister Brimble), Descent II (mixing)
- Rune: Halls of Valhalla, SSX Tricky, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, NHL 2002, SpyHunter 2, Dead Man's Hand, Full Auto, Full Auto 2: Battlelines, Unreal Tournament 3, SSX, Guacamelee! and Guacamelee! 2
- Quake 3 Arena, James Bond Tomorrow never dies
- Ramin Djawadi
- James Dooley – Epic Mickey
- Christopher Drake – Batman: Arkham Origins, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Injustice 2
- Howard Drossin – Comix Zone, Sonic Spinball
- Call of Duty 4, Mortal Kombat X
E
- Randy Edelman
- Greg Edmonson – Uncharted series
- Takahito Eguchi – The Bouncer, Final Fantasy X-2
- Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures, Back to the Future: The Game, Jurassic Park: The Game, The Walking Dead (video game)
- Jon Everist - BattleTech (video game), Overwatch 2, Shadowrun: Hong Kong, The Solitaire Conspiracy
F
- Eveline Fischer (now Eveline Novakovic) – Donkey Kong Country (with Robin Beanland and David Wise), Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (with David Wise)
- Ron Fish – Batman: Arkham City, God of War
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- ), and various assorted tracks for 8- and 16-bit videogames.
- Troels Brun Folmann – Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Anniversary
- Mortal Kombatseries
- Toby Fox – Undertale, Hiveswap, Deltarune, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Little Town Hero, Pokémon Sword and Shield
- Growlanser III, Langrisser III
- Yasuhiko Fukuda – sometimes credited as Hirohiko Fukuda, known for Emerald Dragon (SNES)
- Kenichiro Fukui - Einhänder
- Takeshi Furukawa – The Last Guardian
G
- Martin Galway – Commodore 64 sound programmer and composer for Ocean Software and Imagine Software (after Ocean bought the company).
- Genki Rockets – Lumines II, Child of Eden
- Raphaël Gesqua – Flashback: The Quest For Identity, Mr. Nutz, Moto Racer
- Michael Giacchino – Medal of Honor series (1999–2003, 2007), Call of Duty series (2003-2004), Secret Weapons Over Normandy, BLACK
- Simon Gosling – Croc 2
- Fred Gray – Shadowfire, Mutants, Madballs, Enigma Force, Black Lamp, Eco, Stargoose, Victory Road
- Gustaf Grefberg – Enclave (video game), The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
- Harry Gregson-Williams – Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords, Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
H
- Star Wars Battlefront series, Halo Wars 2
- Peter Hajba – Bejeweled series
- Masashi Hamauzu – SaGa Frontier 2, Tobal No. 1, Final Fantasy X (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano), Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Kentarō Haneda – Wizardry 1, 2, and 3; Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom
- F1 Manager, Evil Genius 2
- Cannon Fodder series, Sensible Soccer series, Sensible Golf
- Soul Reaver
- Aki Hata (occasionally credited as AKI) – Rocket Knight Adventures (with Masanori Ohuchi, Masanori Adachi, Hiroshi Kobayashi and Michiru Yamane), Dynamite Headdy (with Norio Hanzawa and Nazo² Suzuki)
- Max Payne 2
- Christophe Héral – Beyond Good & Evil, Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends
- Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, Zone of the Enders, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Boktai, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Genso Suikogaidenseries
- Susumu Hirasawa – Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, BERSERK ~Hawk of the Millennium Empire Arc - Chapter of the Holy Demon War~
- Joe Hisaishi - professional name of Mamoru Fujisawa, composer and musical director known for Ni no Kuni
- Wordsworth, Frogger: Ancient Shadow(with Mutato Muzika)
- Michael Hoenig – Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
- Alec Holowka – Aquaria
- Ridge Racer series, Street Fighter EXseries
- Niamh Houston - Super Hexagon, Dicey Dungeons
- Rob Hubbard – Many Atari 8-bit and C64 games including International Karate and Jet Set Willy
- Great Giana Sisters, Turricanseries
- Michael Hunter – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto IV
- Andrew Hulshult - Dusk, Quake Champions, Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1
I
- series
- Tsuneo Imahori – Gungrave
- Laura Intravia - Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars
- Mark Isham
- Daisuke Ishiwatari – Guilty Gear series
- Naoki Itamura –
- Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations, Radiata Stories
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together(with Hitoshi Sakimoto)
- Hiroyuki Iwatsuki – Mitsume ga Tōru (NES), Wild Guns (with Haruo Ohashi), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition (with Haruo Ohashi), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (SNES, with Haruo Ohashi), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (SNES, with Kinuyo Yamashita and Iku Mizutani)
- Takahiro Izutani – Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Yakuza 2, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Ninja Blade
J
- Henry Jackman - Just Cause 3, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- Steve Jablonsky – The Sims 3, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Command & Conquer, Transformers, Gears of War series
- Lee Jackson – Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Stargunner
- Richard Jacques – Sonic R, Metropolis Street Racer, Headhunter, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood
- Super Robot Wars series
- Bitmap Brothers, many others from 1986 to 2006
K
- Akari Kaida – Breath of Fire III, Mega Man & Bass, Mega Man Battle Network, Ōkami
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra
- Macross Triangle Frontier
- TMNT (Nintendo DS), Contra 4
- Folklore
- Batman Returns (Sega 8-bit versions), Streets of Rageseries
- Grant Kirkhope – Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Tooie, GoldenEye 007, Perfect Dark, Blast Corps
- Command & Conquer series.
- Chris Kline – Bionic Commando (2009), Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection, Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection
- Geoff Knorr - Civilization IV, Civilization V, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, Civilization: Beyond Earth, Civilization VI
- Saori Kobayashi – Panzer Dragoon series, Shadowgate 64: Trials of the Four Towers
- Konami Kukeiha Club (KONAMI's sound team)
- Yume KouJou Doki Doki Panic, Shin Onigashima, The Mysterious Murasame Castle, Super Smash Bros. Brawl(with many others)
- Ys series, Streets of Rage series, Revenge of Shinobi, Super Adventure Island, Etrian Odyssey series, 7th Dragonseries
- Taro Kudo – Axelay, Super Castlevania IV (with Masanori Adachi)
- Kukeiha Club – see KONAMI KuKeiHa CLUB
L
- Jean-Marc Lederman – Atlantis, Atlantis Sky Patrol, Fairies, Mystic Inn, Titanic Hidden Expedition, Snow Racer 1998, Solar Crusade, Turbogems, Fever Frenzy, SocioTown, Force of Arms
- Lotus 2, Utopia, Top Gear, Pixter, Supercars 2
- The Sims 3: Pets, Mass Effect 3, Scalebound
- Paul Leonard-Morgan – Battlefield Hardline, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III, Cyberpunk 2077
- Daniel Licht – Silent Hill: Downpour, Dishonored series
- Russell Lieblich – Early Intellivision games
- Richard Ludlow - Hexany Audio
- Rob Lord – Aladdin
- Alph Lyla (CAPCOM's sound team)
M
- Naoki Maeda – Bemani series
- Rewrite
- Crash Bandicoot (first four games), Interstate '82 (with Mark Mothersbaugh), Jak and Daxter Trilogy, The Condemned, The Megalex, Johnny Mnemonic
- Mark Mancina
- Independence War Deluxe Edition and Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos
- Twisted Metal Black, Civilization II
- Jerry Martin – SimCity 4: Rush Hour
- Junichi Masuda – Pokémon video game series, Pulseman, Mario & Wario
- Noriko Matsueda – Bahamut Lagoon, Chrono Trigger, Tobal No. 1, The Bouncer, Final Fantasy X-2
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2
- Peter McConnell – Grim Fandango, Psychonauts
- SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs, Dark Void
- Tomb Raider 3
- Shin Megami Tensei: Personaseries
- Robyn Miller – Myst, Riven, Obduction (video game)
- Toru Minegishi – The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (with Koji Kondo, Kenta Nagata and Hajime Wakai), Splatoon series
- Yasunori Mitsuda – Chrono Trigger, Mario Party, Xenogears, Xenosaga, Chrono Cross, Front Mission: Gun Hazard (with Nobuo Uematsu, Junya Nakano, and Masashi Hamauzu), Radical Dreamers, Legaia 2: Duel Saga, Shadow Hearts
- Tekken series, Katamari Damacy
- Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout
- Parasite Eve 2, Final Fantasy XI
- Life Is Strangeseries
- Mike Morasky – Portal, Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Half-Life: Alyx
- series
- Akihiko Mori – Wonder Project J series
- Need for Speed Carbon, Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Crash Bandicoot (as a music producer), The Sims 2, Sewer Shark
- Kururin Paradise, Fire Pro Wrestling Returns, Style Savvy
- Metal Gear Solidseries (all ending themes)
- Mutato Muzika – see Mark Mothersbaugh
N
- Hideki Naganuma – Jet Set Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, Ollie King, Sonic Rush
- Masato Nakamura – Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Takayuki Nakamura – Virtua Fighter, Tobal 2, Ehrgeiz
- Dewprism (Threads of Fate in the U.S.), Tobal No. 1, Final Fantasy X
- Akito Nakatsuka – Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Ice Climber
- Junichi Nakatsuru – Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
- ReBirth series
- Wild Armsseries
- Dark Cloud 2
- Graeme Norgate – TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
O
- Halo series
- The Ninja Warriors, Rainbow Islands(Master System version, with Tadashi Kimijima)
- Kow Otani
- Tomoya Ohtani – Sonic the Hedgehog series, Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure
- Nier series, Tekkenseries
- Rewrite
- ICO
- Kenichi Ōkuma – Ring ni Kakero
P
- John Paesano – Mass Effect: Andromeda, Detroit: Become Human, Spider-Man
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, The Maw, Fighter Within, Spore Hero
- KGB (computer game), Commander Blood
- Kirill Pokrovsky – Divinity series
- Catacomb 3D
- Marcin Przybyłowicz – The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077
- Shadowgrounds Survivor
R
- Lena Raine – Celeste, Minecraft, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Deltarune
- Simon Ravn – Viking: Battle for Asgard, Empire: Total War, Napoleon: Total War
- Mike Reagan – God of War, God of War II, God of War III, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, Darkwatch, Darksiders, Life Is Strange: Farewell, Conan, Devil's Third, Trials Evolution, Twisted Metal: Black
- Trent Reznor – Quake
- Kevin Riepl – Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict, The Bible Game, Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3, Huxley, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Aliens: Colonial Marines
- Age of Empires series, Halo Wars
- Paul Romero – Heroes of Might and Magic series, EverQuest
- Daniel Rosenfeld – Minecraft
- Lior Rosner – Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
- Aliens vs. Predator (2010) – Sega, NeverDead – Konami, Sniper Elite V2 – Rebellion Developments and 505 Games.
S
- Toshihiko Sahashi – Blue Stinger
- Sakari – Independent game musicians from around the world.
- Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together(with Masaharu Iwata)
- Mario Golf series, Baten Kaitos series, Mario Sports Superstars
- Need For Speed Underground 2, The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift, Project Gotham Racing 3, Full Auto 2: Battlelines
- Halo series, Destinyseries
- George 'The Fat Man' Sanger – Wing Commander, The 7th Guest, Master of Orion
- Tekkenseries
- Gustavo Santaolalla – The Last of Us series
- Xak(with Tadahiro Nitta)
- Marl Kingdom series, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Phantom Brave
- Kan Sawada
- Hiroyuki Sawano – Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-Kun, River City Ransom, Super Dodge Ball
- Sarah Schachner[1] - Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
- John Madden Footballand many others.
- Crusaderseries
- Mark Seibert – Quest for Glory series, King's Quest series
- Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
- Marathon
- Fable 2
- To The Moon, Finding Paradise, Plants vs. Zombies, Rakuen, Quintessence: The Blighted Venom and High School Story
- Go Shiina – Tales, Mr. Driller, The Idolmaster, God Eater series
- Kingdom Hearts series, Final Fantasy XV
- Mark Snow – Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
- Masayoshi Soken – Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Mario Sports Mix, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XVI
- Maribeth Solomon - Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies
- Guildwars, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series, Prey (2006)
- Christopher Stevens – Syphon Filter 3
- Martin Stig Andersen – Limbo, Inside, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Wingman Special, Tetris 2 + Bombliss
- Keiichi Suzuki – Mother, EarthBound
T
- Bobby Tahouri – Rise of the Tomb Raider, Marvel's Avengers
- Masafumi Takada – killer7, God Hand, No More Heroes, Earth Defense Force, Danganronpa
- Yukihide Takekawa – Soul Blazer
- Hirokazu 'Hip' Tanaka – Balloon Fight, EarthBound, Kid Icarus, Metroid, Mother, Super Mario Land, Tetris
- Kōhei Tanaka – Paladin's Quest, Lennus 2 (Paladin's Quest 2), Xardion, Alundra, Sakura Wars series
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Code Age Commanders
- The Penumbra Series, Overgrowth
- Thoroughbred Breeder (series)
- Cybernoid II, Eliminator, Turbo Outrun
- Soichi Terada – Ape Escape series (except Ape Escape 2)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance, X-Men: The Official Game, The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, Unreal II: The Awakening
- Chris Tilton – Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Black, Assassin's Creed Unity
- Christopher Tin – Civilization IV, Civilization VI
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U
- Yuka Tsujiyoko – Fire Emblem series, Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
- Hyakutaro Tsukumo - Thunder Force V, Hyper Duel
- Brian Tyler - Lego Universe, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Need for Speed: The Run, Far Cry 3, Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
U
- Tatsuya Uemura – Performan, Tiger-Heli, Flying Shark, Twin Cobra, Hellfire, Zero Wing, Out Zone, Dogyuun
- SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu (Final Fantasy Legend II) (with Kenji Ito), Rad Racer, Romancing SaGa 1 and 2 (one song in former and two songs in latter), Chrono Trigger (with Yasunori Mitsuda and Noriko Matsueda), Super Mario RPG (with Yoko Shimomura and Koji Kondo), Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Main Theme), and The Last Story
V
- Michiel van den Bos – Unreal, Age of Wonders, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex, Overlord
- Need for Speed)
- Cris Velasco – Hellgate: London, God of War, Mass Effect 3, ZombiU
- and others.
- Runner 2, Hyper Light Drifter
- Chris Vrenna – American McGee's Alice, Doom 3, Quake 4
W
- Jph Wacheski
- series
- No One Lives Forever
- Wizards and Warriorsseries
- .
- Colony Wars
Y
- Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 1 & 2, Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Goku Densetsu, Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit, Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World.
- Famicom Tantei Club Part II, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Donkey Kong Country Returns(with Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima)
- Genso suikoden III(with Tadashi Yoshida and Masahiko Kimura)
- Akira Yamaoka – Silent Hill series, Contra: Shattered Soldier
- Toshiharu Yamanishi - Thunder Force series
- Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, Keitai Denjū Telefang
- Yousuke Yasui - Eschatos, Ginga Force, Natsuki Chronicles
- Mahito Yokota – Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Super Mario Galaxy series, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, New Super Mario Bros. U, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
- Ryo Yonemitsu - Ys series
- series
- Yes - Homeworld
Z
- Hans Zimmer – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Crysis 2, FIFA 19
- Touhou
- Zuntata (Taito's sound team)
- Fallout New Vegas, Dragon Age: Origins