Peter Hajba

Peter Hajba

Gender Male Born 1974-12-15 Birth Place Turku, Finland Nationality Finnish   Aliases Skaven Skaven 252 Website futurecrew.com/skaven/

Peter Hajba is a Finnish electronic musician, video game composer and graphic artist. His most recent project is with Remedy Entertainment as an animator, sound designer and graphic artist. Prior to working with Remedy, Hajba has been credited on games developed by 3D Realms, PopCap Games, Introversion Software Limited, Epic Games and Housemarque.

Hajba was a member of the widely popular but now defunct demoscene group Future Crew, which produced some highly acclaimed demos during the 1990s. Despite having no formal training, he has won numerous awards for his music, including winning the Assembly music competition in 1993, 1995 and 2002.

Audio Development

PC

Hajba used Scream Tracker 3, Impulse Tracker and ModPlug Tracker.

Game Boy Advance

On BookWorm, Hajba's music files were converted to Engine Software's sound driver by Jan-Lieuwe Koopmans.

Gameography

Released	Title	Sample	Notes
1999-11-30	Unreal Tournament (W32)		"Razorback // Unreal mix" track.
1999-??-??	GLTron (W32)
2000-10-21	Unreal Tournament (PS2)		"Razorback // Unreal mix" track.
2001-03-13	Unreal Tournament (DC)		"Razorback // Unreal mix" track.
2001-05-30	Bejeweled (W32)
2001-07-24	Max Payne (W32)		Sound and Voice Tracks.
2001-08-29	Alchemy (W32)
2001-10-01	Uplink (W32) (Uplink: Hacker Elite)		"Deep in her Eyes" track.
2001-10-16	Seven Seas (W32)
2001-12-07	Max Payne (PS2)		Sound and Voice Tracks.
2001-12-18	Max Payne (XBOX)		Sound and Voice Tracks.
2002-01-25	Dynomite! (W32)
2002-06-05	Big Money! (W32)
2002-12-02	Bookworm (WMOB)
2002-??-??	Codename: Silver (W32)
2003-02-27	Bookworm (W32)
2003-10-14	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (W32)		Sound FX and Voice Tracks.
2003-11-25	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (PS2)		Sound FX and Voice Tracks.
2003-12-02	Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (XBOX)		Sound FX and Voice Tracks.
2003-12-12	Warblade (W32)		Additional Music.
2003-06-10	Sweet Tooth To Go (W32)		Original Music from Bejeweled (W32).
2004-02-08	Hamsterball (W32)
2004-02-28	Bookworm (GBA)
2004-11-05	Bejeweled 2 (W32)
2005-05-12	Hap Hazard (W32)
2008-10-27	Bejeweled Twist (W32)		With Philippe Charron.
2008-??-??	Bejeweled (TV)		Original Music.
2009-02-07	Boonka (W32)
2009-11-20	Hoggy (IOS)
2009-11-30	Bookworm (NDS)		Menu Music.
2010-01-18	Bejeweled Twist (NDS)		Original Music.
2010-05-14	Alan Wake (X360)		Audio Design and Voice Tracks with Michael Schwendler.
2010-06-14	Bejeweled 2: Deluxe (WII)		Original Music.
2010-12-07	Bejeweled 3 (W64)		With Alexander Brandon.
2011-02-23	Bejeweled: Blitz Live (X360)
2011-03-31	Death Rally (IOS)		Sound Design with Richard Lapington.
2011-11-15	Bejeweled 3 (NDS)		Arranged by Allister Brimble.
2011-12-03	Ice Rage (IOS)
2012-02-02	Furmins (IOS)
2012-02-22	Alan Wake's American Nightmare (X360)		Senior Audio Engineer.
2013-10-16	Furmins (PSV)
2015-12-01	Just Cause 3 (PS4)		Audio with Jason Kanter, Max Lachmann, Tobias Palmér, Istvan Stenberg and Dominic Vega.
2015-12-01	Just Cause 3 (W64)		Audio with Jason Kanter, Max Lachmann, Tobias Palmér, Istvan Stenberg and Dominic Vega.
2015-12-01	Just Cause 3 (XONE)		Audio with Jason Kanter, Max Lachmann, Tobias Palmér, Istvan Stenberg and Dominic Vega.
2018-02-27	Space Tyrant (W64)
2019-03-26	Generation Zero (PS4)		Audio Designer.
2019-03-26	Generation Zero (W64)		Audio Designer.
2019-03-26	Generation Zero (XONE)		Audio Designer.
2019-05-14	Rage 2 (PS4)		Audio Design with Max Lachmann and Thomas Sibo.
2019-05-14	Rage 2 (W64)		Audio Design with Max Lachmann and Thomas Sibo.
2019-05-14	Rage 2 (XONE)		Audio Design with Max Lachmann and Thomas Sibo.
Unreleased	Bejeweled (GBA)
Unreleased	Second Extinction (W64)		Sound Designer.
Unreleased	Second Extinction (XONE)		Sound Designer.
Unreleased	Second Extinction (XSX)		Sound Designer.

Picture Gallery

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Links

• web.archive.org/web/19970404124231/http://isis.yok.utu.fi/~skaven/ - Biography from 1997-03-31.
• mobygames.com/person/7937/peter-hajba/ - MobyGames.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hajba - Wikipedia.
• modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_profile&query=69572 - ModArchive profile.
• soundcloud.com/skaven252 - SoundCloud profile.
• skaven252.bandcamp.com - Bandcamp profile.
• twitter.com/skaven252 - Twitter profile.
• facebook.com/SkavenFC - Facebook profile.
• demozoo.org/productions/103408/ - DOS interview from 1994-07-05.
• amp.dascene.net/detail.php?view=6706&detail=interview - E-mail interview from 2001 (before April 12).
• demozoo.org/productions/145/ - Windows 32 interview from 2008-02-29.