Best game music composer?

[Predseda]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Chris Huelsbeck. It's a no brainer.

Without any doubt. There was a lot of good musicians on Amiga, but only one was the best.

[Mrs Beanbag]

i'm going to mention Jonathan Coulton

[Total Eclipse]

Based on the majority of game music I can remember, it's David Whitaker and Allister Brimble that stick in my mind most. Speedball, Beyond The Ice Palace, Xenon, Project X, Alien Breed... Tunes that once they're in your head, they stick for the whole day.

However, my vote goes to Jochen Hippel. I had several years of owning an Atari ST before getting an Amiga, and had a lot of exposure to Hippel's music, mainly thorough demo's but also the occasional game he worked on.

[Michael Sykes]

28 people can't be wrong...
Chris Hülsbeck is the man when it comes to amiga music.

Originally Posted by Mrs Beanbag

i'm going to mention Jonathan Coulton

That had to come from a "code monkey".

[Foul]

hey ! WTF ! missing one of the Best Amiga Composer !!!

Moby / Elmobo

Remember :

First my all time prefered Amiga demo music : Knulla Kuk from Substance / Alliance Design of Quartex Demo

Livin-Insanity from Arte / Sanity Demo

Elekfunk also from Arte / Sanity Demo

The Last Knight from the Alcatraz Megademo 4 - The Devil's Key

Sea of love from the adventure game "Fascination"

And many more !!!

[Paul_s]

Tim & Lee Wright for me

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Chris Huelsbeck. It's a no brainer.

What about the late Richard Joseph?

[dex]

For the Amiga it must indeed be Chris Hülsbeck, I have to say it and I don't even think he's overrated - even if his later works lack "something", maybe they are not as narrow in sound and nicely low res (like an excellent pixel artist who starts painting in high res and it's just not the same level of quality).

But as for musicians in general and not only the Amiga it's Tim Follin always and forever. (he did make some tunes for the Amiga though, look at Gauntlet III for example, epicness). I like a lot of the great 16-Bit composers of old (and current) such as Hülsbeck, Brimble or (as mentioned by the previous poster) Richard Joseph who created the great music for my favourite game of all time "The Chaos Engine" and many others such as Martin Iveson who made excellent tracks for Core Design (XJ220, Blastar, Chuck Rock 2). But what I hear from Tim (mostly in the 8-Bit league) just leaves me completely in awe (both from an artistic as well as technical view). Maybe it's superior to every other video game musician in existence to this very day? Who knows. It's just sad that he never got the appreciation (or pay from the companies?) he deserved. And look at the games he made music for. And what he said in interviews. I remember one of the creators of Ecco the Dolphin for Dreamcast (Appaloosa Interactive?) who talked about Ecco being an "action adventure" and very fast paced actually but "the tranquil music didn't really fit" or something like that. That was one of the last soundtracks Tim Follin did and it's just completely amazing - also the style which contrasts other works from him (he was very adept at several instruments and tried a lot of different sounds, something you only really find among the greatest such as Akira Yamaoka etc.).

That being said, the music on the Amiga platform in general was (for me and only in my opinion of course) by far the best video game music in history. I collect video game music to this day from AAA titles to indie games and while amazing things happened over the years, it's just incredible how diverse and atmospheric the music on the old Miggy was

[Mrs Beanbag]

Originally Posted by Michael Sykes

That had to come from a "code monkey".

hey there's nothing "monkey" about my code!

i did vote Hülsbeck though

[amuleth]

The Wright Brothers have 0 vote? I'm in shock! Also David Whittaker's votes are too low.

[Predseda]

Anyone knows what Olof Gustafsson does now?

[Devlin]

It has to be Ben Daglish for me, because he's the only one I've actually met in person!

[Nova]

haiko ruttmann for me, the twinworld music is simply enchanting and brings back this nostalgic feeling.

[Carlos Ace]

Voted Chris Hülsbeck but i´ve other fovorites like David Whittaker, Jochen Hippel and Allister Brimble.

[adrdesign]

Richard Joseph: from the wiki says the soundtrack for Cannon Fodder the GBA version was also nominated for a BAFTA in 2000, and is still the only small-format soundtrack to be recognised by BAFTA to this day. Have a look to his bio, he is the man.

[cry]

Ron Klaren because he did more with less.

[saimon69]

Wish that poll was multiple answer: for me Huelsbeck, Follin and Whittaker are among the holy trinity, closely followed by Wright and Brimble

[egotrip](wish i did more music for games than only Powder, so maybe i might have been over there - well actually i did but never got published)[/egotrip]

[Leffmann]

Originally Posted by Predseda

Anyone knows what Olof Gustafsson does now?

He's still in the game industry it seems, if you check his page on mobygames.com. He also made the soundtrack for this recent demo:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62977

[s2325]

Allister Brimble : A retrospective by Paul Bridger [ Show youtube player ]

[saimon69]

i still want to break a spear for Iveson: he has been able to show the world how to push limits of optimization: its in-game tunes rarely reach 100k and what he did with two voices on Wolfchild is simply phenomenal! Trying to follow its footprints for my in-game songs but is tough...