Brian Schmidt

Brian L. Schmidt is a music composer for various video games and pinball games. Schmidt is also the creator of the BSMT2000 audio DSP, which is used in various pinball games and video arcade machines. Currently, he is the program manager of the Xbox Audio and Voice Technologies division at Microsoft.Brian has undergraduate degrees in both Music and Computer Science as well as a Masters degree in Computer Applications in Music, all from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. Brian started in the industry in 1987 as an employee of Williams (WMS) writing music and music software for pinball machines. While at Williams, he worked on Black Knight 2000 with Ed Boon (who later went on to create the Mortal Kombat series) and several other pinball machines. At WMS he also wrote the music for the arcade game NARC. His main theme from NARC went on to be recorded by the Pixies. After two years at WMS, Brian left to be an independent consultant, during which time he wrote music and created sound effects for close to 120 video and arcade games and pinball machines including John Madden Football and the "Desert Strike" series. In 1998, Brian was recruited into Microsoft where he worked on DirectX before moving over to the Xbox team in late 1999. At Xbox, Brian was responsible for the overall audio system architecture; he also created the startup sound for the original Xbox. Brian continues in his role developing audio technologies such as XACT and was responsible for the audio architecture of the Xbox 360. Brian Serves on the Board of Directors of the Game Audio Network Guild (GANG), the advisory board of the Game Developers Conference and is a well known industry speaker and published author

chmidt's works

Pinball

Williams

*"Space Station: Pinball Rendezvous"
*"Banzai Run"
*"Fire"
*"Swords of Fury"
*"Black Knight 2000" (with Dan Forden and Steve Ritchie)

Data East Pinball

*""
*"The Simpsons"
*"Checkpoint"
*"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
*"Batman"
*"Star Trek: 25th Anniversary"
*"Hook"
*"Lethal Weapon 3"
*"Star Wars"
*"Rocky & Bullwinkle"
*"Jurassic Park"
*"Last Action Hero"
*"Tales from the Crypt"
*"The Who's Tommy: Pinball Wizard"
*"WWF Royal Rumble"
*"Guns N' Roses"
*"Maverick"

Sega Pinball

*"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
*"Baywatch"
*"Batman Forever"
*"Apollo 13"
*"GoldenEye"
*"Mini-Viper"
*"Independence Day"
*"Twister"
*"Space Jam"
*"Star Wars Trilogy"
*"The X-Files"
*"Starship Troopers"
*"Lost In Space"

Currently, Data East Pinball and Sega Pinball are now known as Stern Pinball.

Video games

Arcade

*"NARC" (Williams)
*"Smash TV" (Williams)
*"Tattoo Assassins" (Data East Pinball)

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Electronic Arts

*"Crüe Ball"
*"" (with Rob Hubbard)
*"Jungle Strike"
*"Mutant League Football"
*"NBA Live 97
*"Super Baseball 2020" (with Chris Granner)

Other developers

*"Weaponlord" (Namco)
*"World Heroes" (Sega)
*"Zoop" (Viacom New Media)
*"Congo"

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

*"Madden NFL '94" (Electronic Arts)
*"NBA Live 97" (Electronic Arts)
*"Weaponlord" (Namco)

External links

* [http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,63097/ MobyGames' info for Brian Schmidt]