Wiki: Industry Recognition

For recognition outside of the game industry, please see Press.

Industry professionals who have supported OCR

Alberto Jose Gonzalez

Wrote to djpretzel to take credit for composing Pop-Up's music for the Gameboy.

Alexander Brandon

Provided additional composer credit information for Tyrian after expressing his enjoyment of Disturbed's ReMix "Composition in Q". Also enjoyed Big Giant Circles's Unreal Tournament ReMix "Club Showdown".

Barry Leitch

Enjoyed and commented on all three ReMixes where he composed the original music, two Top Gear ReMixes ("Dark Racer" and "Track 1 (Final Nitro Mix)"), and one from Lotus 2: Turbo Challenge ("2K3").

David Wise

Personally contacted Vigilante ("Beneath the Surface") and bLiNd ("Industrial Fear") to congratulate their efforts on Kong in Concert.

Gerard Marino

Spoke with VGDJ for the Philadelphia Video Games Live concert.

Hiroki Kikuta

Wrote to djpretzel expressing thanks for djp's Secret of Mana ReMix "Tidal Sequence".

Jack Wall

Spoke with VGDJ for the Philadelphia Video Games Live concert.

Jeremy Soule

Sent in a Final Fantasy 6 ReMix "Squaresoft Variation" to honor both Nobuo Uematsu and djpretzel.

John Romero

Plugged OCR on his homepage and hosts copies of some of his favorite ReMixes.

Marcus Henderson

Spoke with VGDJ for the Philadelphia Video Games Live concert.

Michael Salvatori

Spoke with VGDJ for the Philadelphia Video Games Live concert.

Rapture

Fabian Del Priore sent in a Donkey Kong Country ReMix "Strolling the Mines". It was later removed from the site for not substantially interpreting the original material, but rather remixing it.

The Fat Man & Team Fat

The Fat Man (George Sanger) has sent in two ReMixes, one solo mix arranging his own original material from The 7th Guest, and one Wing Commander group arrangement performed with his partners, Team Fat (Dave Govett, Joe McDermott & K. Weston Phelan).

Tommy Tallarico

Has spotlighted OCR on TechTV and G4 on "Electric Playground". Solicited and later added the Daniel Baranowsky/Vigilante/zyko Earthworm Jim 2 collaboration "Invertebrate Retreat" to The Earthwom Jim Anthology album. Spoke with VGDJ for the Philadelphia Video Games Live concert. Provided djpretzel with a table for the Philadelphia Video Games Live meet-and-greet.

OC ReMixers with professional game credits

Beatdrop

• Music Credits, Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2 (Arcade), Konami, upcoming (Q3 2007)

BenCousins

• Senior Designer, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe: Studio London
• Lead Designer, BC (cancelled), Lionhead Studios
• Asylum Entertainment, 2000
• QA, Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. (Nintendo 64), Acclaim Studios London, December 2, 1999

Binster

• Development Team: Art, 24: The Game (PlayStation 2), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe: Studio Cambridge, February 28, 2006
• Development Team: Character Art, Ghosthunter (PlayStation 2), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe: Studio Cambridge, December 3, 2003

Boz

• Music Credits: Level 3 Music: "Ocean Loader 4", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Credits: Level Select Music: "Shadowfire", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Credits: Option Screen Music: "Flash Gordon", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004

Chris Abbott

• Music Credits: Platypus Music Supply (C64Audio.com), Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Credits: Option Screen Music: "Flash Gordon", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Credits: Level Select Music: "Shadowfire", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Credits: Level 2 Music: "Sanxion Loading Theme", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004
• Music Permission / Special Thanks (C64Audio.com), C64 Classix (PC), Magnussoft Deutschland GmbH, May 2005

Chris J. Hampton

• Development Team: Audio, Worms World Party (N-Gage), THQ Wireless, April 19, 2005
• Two Tribes: Created by, Toki Tori (Game Boy Color), Capcom Entertainment, September 2001

Christian Pacaud

• Sound Design, TMNT (Nintendo DS), Ubisoft Montreal Studios, March 20, 2007
• Additional Sound Design, Open Season (Nintendo DS), Ubisoft Montreal Studios, September 19, 2006

Jared Hudson

• Orchestrations, Tabloid Tycoon (PC), ValuSoft, April 25, 2005

Jeremy Soule

• Extensive career

LeeBro

• Sonic Rivals (PlayStation Portable), SEGA of America, December 1, 2006
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC), SEGA of America, November 24, 2006
• Sound Production (as part of Remix Factory), Shadow the Hedgehog (Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube), SEGA of America, November 15, 2005

Mustin

• Additional Musics, Ultimate Arcade Games: Treasure Hunters (Gameboy Advance), Telegames, October 17, 2005

mv

• Music, Crazy Frog Racer (Gameboy Advance), dtp entertainment AG, December 5, 2005
• Additional Musics, Ultimate Arcade Games: Treasure Hunters (Gameboy Advance), Telegames, October 17, 2005

N-JekteD

• Pandemic Australia: Additional Sound Design, Destroy All Humans! 2 (PlayStation 2, Xbox), THQ, October 17, 2006
• SFX and Music: Music and Sound Design, HotDogs HotGals (Windows), Fuzzyeyes Studio, March 9, 2006

pixietricks

• 2K Games, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (Macintosh, Windows), upcoming (July 2007)

PriZm

• Ubisoft Montreal Studios, upcoming (December 2007)

richBRF

• Rogue Trooper: Art Team, Rogue Trooper (PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox), Eidos GmbH, April 16, 2006
• Rebellion Credits: Artists; Other Sample Contributions, Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox), BAM! Entertainment, February 25, 2005
• Rebellion: Lead Artist, Gunfighter II: Revenge of Jesse James (PlayStation 2), Ubisoft Entertainment, March 14, 2003

Shonen Samurai

• Game Master, World of Warcraft (PC), Blizzard Entertainment

Slow Poision

• Music Credits: Level Boss Music 1, excerpt from "Trap", Platypus (PC), Retro64, January 25, 2004

The Fat Man & Team Fat

• Extensive careers

The Wingless

• User Interface Artist, John Woo's Stranglehold (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC), Midway Games, upcoming (August 2007)
• User Interface Artist, NBA Ballers: Phenom (PlayStation 2, Xbox), Midway Games, March 29, 2006

Trenthian

• Sierra Entertainment - Quality Assurance: Burn Lab Configuration Engineers, Caesar IV (PC), Vivendi Universal Games, September 26, 2006
• Vivendi Universal Games: QA Testers, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (Gameboy Advance), Vivendi Universal Games, March 14, 2006
• Sierra Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Publishing: Quality Assurance Testers, F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon: Director's Edition (PC), Vivendi Universal Games, October 18, 2005
• Sierra Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Games: Quality Assurance Testers, F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon (PC), Vivendi Universal Games, October 17, 2005
• QA: Testers, Medal of Honor: European Assault (GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox), Electronic Arts Los Angeles, June 7, 2005
• Pandemic Studios, L.L.C.: Production Testers and Interns, Star Wars: Battlefront (Macintosh, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox), Pandemic Studios, September 21, 2004