Ian Stocker

Ian Stocker

Gender	Male
Born	Unknown
Birth Place	Unknown
Nationality	American
Aliases	MagicalTimeBean
Website	www.magicaltimebean.com

Ian Stocker is an American composer and indie game developer.

He has previously worked on soundtracks for big name titles like The Sims 2 on the Nintendo DS. He started in the industry in January 2002 doing contract audio work as Ian Stocker Soundesign, Inc. on a large amount of commercial titles. He provided direction, composition, sound design, build management, custom technology and tools.

He started the independent game development studio MagicalTimeBean circa 2010-2011. He created the games Soulcaster (2010), Soulcaster II (2010) and most recently Escape Goat (2011). Initially they were only available as XNA Indie Games for the Xbox 360, but later the platform reach was expanded to Windows and browser.

Audio Development

Game Boy Color

Stocker used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.

Game Boy Advance

On The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Daredevil and Crushed Baseball, Stocker used MusyX, a sound tool by Factor 5.

On his rest of his GBA work, Stocker used Impulse Tracker and converted his IT files to Krawall, a GBA sound driver by Sebastian Kienzl.

On Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, someone at Electronic Arts sent Stocker's music files to Manfred Linzner, who converted it into the game using GAX sound driver.

Nintendo DS

On Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Burnout Legends, someone at Electronic Arts sent Stocker's music files to Manfred Linzner, who converted it into the game using DSX sound driver.

For the rest of his DS work, he continues used Impulse Tracker and converted his IT files to native DS format.

Last titles used Intelligent Systems' Nitro Composer sound driver.

Gameography

Released	Title	Notes
2002-11-08	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (GBA)	Arranged Howard Shore's music.
2002-11-15	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (GBC)	Arranged Jeremy Soule's music.
2002-11-15	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (GBA)	Adapted by Jonathan Dunn, Dean Evans and Steve Duckworth.
2003-02-02	Daredevil (GBA)
2003-11-05	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (GBA)	Arranged Howard Shore's music.
2003-11-17	007: Everything or Nothing (GBA)
2003-12-16	The Sims: Bustin' Out (GBA)
2004-04-01	Digimon Racing (GBA) (デジモンレーシング)
2004-05-12	The Sims: Bustin' Out (NGAG)	Original Music.
2004-05-25	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (GBA)	Arranged Jeremy Soule's music.
2004-09-06	Crushed Baseball (GBA)
2004-11-02	The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)	Arranged Howard Shore's music.
2004-11-09	The Urbz: Sims in the City (GBA)
2004-11-10	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (GBA)	Arranged Jeremy Soule's music.
2004-11-17	The Urbz: Sims in the City (NDS)
2005-02-24	Robots (GBA/NDS)
2005-02-??	Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (TV)	Arranged John Williams's music.
2005-03-29	LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA)	Arranged John Williams's music.
2005-10-24	The Sims 2 (GBA/NDS)	With Kyle Johnson.
2005-10-25	Shrek Super Slam (GBA/NDS)	Additional Music.
2005-11-08	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (GBA/NDS)	Arranged Jeremy Soule's music with Steven Velema. Adapted by Manfred Linzner.
2005-11-14	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (GBA)	With Steven Velema.
2005-11-14	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (NDS)	With Steven Velema.
2005-11-29	Burnout: Legends (NDS)	With Steven Velema and Kyle Johnson. Adapted by Manfred Linzner.
2005-12-07	The Sims 2 (PSP)	Additional Music.
2005-??-??	X-Men: Mutant Reign (TV)	Audio Direction and Production.
2005-??-??	Armadillo Army (W32)
2006-03-14	Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (GBA)
2006-06-27	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (GBA)
2006-06-27	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (NDS)	Arranged Hans Zimmer's music.
2006-09-11	LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GBA/NDS)	Arranged John Williams's music.
2006-11-14	Bionicle Heroes (NDS)	Music by himself. Sound Design with Matthew Piersall, Mark Kilborn and James Barker.
2006-11-14	Eragon (GBA)	With Steven Velema.
2006-11-14	Eragon (NDS)	With Kyle Johnson.
2006-??-??	Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (TV)	Arranged John Williams's music.
2007-04-29	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (NDS)	With Steven Velema.
2007-06-25	Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (NDS)	Audio Production.
2007-07-10	Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (GBA)	Audio Production.
2007-10-19	Disney Friends (NDS)
2008-09-04	Spore Creatures (NDS)
2008-10-03	Zubo (NDS)	Music Conversion.
2009-03-17	Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (NDS)	Music Conversion.
2009-10-06	Spore Hero Arena (NDS)
2009-06-30	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (NDS)	Audio Production.
2009-06-30	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PSP)	Audio Production.
2010-01-26	Imagine Party Planner (NDS)
2010-03-01	Soulcaster (X360)
2010-06-19	Art Academy (NDS)	Music Conversion.
2010-12-14	Soulcaster II (X360)
2011-02-22	Monster Tale (NDS)
2011-11-02	Escape Goat (X360)
2011-11-28	Soulcaster (W64)
2012-01-31	Soulcaster II (W64)
2012-04-22	Escape Goat (W64)
2013-06-07	7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat (W64)	Sound Effects.
2013-11-15	Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW! (PS3/X360)	With Jake Kaufman.
2013-11-19	Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW! (3DS/WIIU)	With Jake Kaufman.
2014-03-24	Escape Goat 2 (MAC/PS4/W64)
2014-11-18	Adventure Time: The Secret of the Nameless Kingdom (3DS/PS3/PS4/PSV/X360/W64)	With Eirik Suhrke, Marco Guardia, Niamh Houston and Keiji Yamagishi
2016-05-24	Soulcaster: Part I & II (MAC/W64)
2020-10-15	Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials (SW/W64)	Sounds with Frédéric Tarabout.
2021-07-15	Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials (PS4/X360/XONE)	Sounds with Frédéric Tarabout.
2022-09-29	Escape Goat (SW)
Unreleased	Mythri (GBC)