The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty Morsels of Sonic Goodness

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New Riders, 2003 - Computers - 507 pages

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Contents

The Strange World
4
The Manifatso
20
the Advanced Level
28
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

The Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger, has been creating music and other audio for games since 1983. He is internationally recognized for having contributed to the atmosphere of over 130 games, including such sound-barrier-breaking greats as Loom, Wing Commander I and II, The 7th Guest I and II, NASCAR Racing, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, and ATF. He wrote the first General MIDI soundtrack for a game, the first direct-to-MIDI live recording of musicians, the first redbook soundtrack included with the game as a separate disk, the first score for a game that was considered a "work of art," and the first soundtrack that was considered a selling point for the game.

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