Amaze Entertainment
| Amaze Entertainment | |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Closed | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Kirkland, Washington, U.S. |
Amaze Entertainment was a US-based development studio founded in Kirkland, Washington, in 1996 by members of Realtime Associates. The studio specialized in ports and separate versions of high-profile licensed games, for handheld platforms such as PSP, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.
Contents
Subsidiaries
- Adrenium Games
- Black Ship Games
- Fizz Factor
- Griptonite Games
- KnowWonder
Games
Music Development
Game Boy Color
For Heroes of Might and Magic, Greg Turner would write MIDI files which were converted to David Warhol's sound driver.
All-Star Baseball 2001 reuses audio from Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball for Game Boy.
Their later titles used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.
Game Boy Advance
Their early titles used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.
Later, Ian Stocker, Steven Velema and Tom Miller used trackers, such as Impulse Tracker and Schism Tracker, and converted their IT files to Krawall, a GBA sound driver by Sebastian Kienzl.
Nintendo DS
Composers use Impulse Tracker and ProTracker and converting their IT and MOD files to native DS format.
On their later titles, composers used Intelligent Systems' Nitro Composer sound driver.
For some games, original music recordings were converted as RAW data.
Audio Personnel
- Allister Brimble - music conversion of Bejeweled 3.
- David Warhol - sound driver provider.
- Drew Cady - composer, sound designer.
- Greg Turner - composer.
- Ian Rodia - composer, sound designer.
- Ian Stocker - composer, sound designer.
- Jake Winkler - composer.
- James L. Venable - composer for Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku.
- Jeremy Soule - composer.
- Julian Soule - composer.
- Kevin Manthei - composer for Shrek 2, Shark Tale, The Sims 2 and Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts.
- Kevin Riepl - composer for Shrek 2 and Shark Tale.
- Kyle Johnson - composer, guitars.
- Mark Yeend - composer, sound designer.
- Mike Reagan - composer for Spider-Man 2.
- Nathaniel Papadakis - composer.
- Navdeep Hukmani - composer.
- Noel Gabriel - composer, sound designer.
- Rick Loconto - sound designer.
- Rik Schaffer - composer for Hot Wheels: Williams F1 Team Driver.
- Somatone Interactive Audio - composer for Age of Empires: Mythologies.
- Steven Velema - composer, sound designer.
- Tom Miller - composer.
- Will Loconto - composer, sound designer.
- Winifred Phillips - composer for Shrek the Third.
Logo History
Amaze Entertainment logo
Adrenium Games logo
Black Ship Games logo
Fizz Factor 2002-2005 logo
Fizz Factor current logo
Griptonite Games 2001-2005 logo
Griptonite Games current logo
KnowWonder 1996-2000 logo
KnowWonder current logo
