Eric Nunamaker

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Eric J. Nunamaker
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Website www.ericjnunamaker.com

Eric Nunamaker is an American composer and sound designer. He attended the Brigham Young University and obtained a bachelors degree in music education and studio recording. He started off working at Sculptured Software, composing the music to a few games along with their in-house audio team. In December 1993, Nunamaker started working at Saffire. He mostly worked on the Game Boy, but would occasionally get to work on console and computer games. Eric stayed with the company up until March 2005, where he went to work for IGT in Reno, Nevada. Eric later worked for VGT, Cadillac Jack, and Spin Games as a composer and sound designer.

Eric currently works at Merkur Gaming/Sunshine Games Studio as a composer and sound designer, and currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Music Development

GEN

On Virtual Bart, Nunamaker used GEMS.

Hardball '95 uses Accolade's sound driver.

SNES

Nunamaker used the BMus sound engine, except for Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars, which he used the SLICK/Audio engine from Bitmasters.

GB

Nunamaker wrote music in MIDI format and converted it on David Rushton's sound driver.

GBA

Nunamaker used Nintendo's MP2K sound engine.

N64

According to him, Nunamaker composed music using sequencers. Later, his music files were adapted in Software Creations' N64 Sound Tools.

PC

At NinjaBee, Nunamaker used Cubase.

Gameography

Released Title Sample Notes
1993-11-?? Tony Meola's Sidekick Soccer (SNES) With Bob Dayley and Kingsley Thurber.
1993-??-?? Super Copa (SNES) With Bob Dayley and Kingsley Thurber.
1994-09-30 Virtual Bart (SNES) With Mark Ganus, Kingsley Thurber and James Hebdon.
1994-??-?? Virtual Bart (GEN) With Sam Powell, Mark Ganus, Kingsley Thurber and James Hebdon.
1995-06-15 Hardball '95 (GEN)
1995-12-?? Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars (SNES) With Sam Powell.
1996-02-?? Nester's Funky Bowling (VB) With Brent Lambert.
1997-08-31 Legends Football '98 (W16)
1998-01-29 James Bond 007 (GB)
1998-11-30 StarCraft: Brood War (W32) Saffire: Audio Director.
1998-12-?? Oddworld Adventures (GB)
1998-12-01 Animaniacs Ten Pin Alley (PS1)
1999-10-31 Top Gear Rally 2 (N64) Audio Director.
1999-11-17 Billy Bob's Huntin'-n-Fishin' (GBC) With David Rushton.
1999-11-17 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (N64)
1999-11-30 Xena: Warrior Princess - The Talisman of Fate (N64)
1999-12-?? Catz (GBC) With David Rushton.
1999-12-?? Dogz (GBC) With David Rushton.
2000-01-14 The Mask of Zorro (GBC) With David Rushton.
2000-01-?? Oddworld Adventures 2 (GBC) With David Rushton.
2000-02-29 CyberTiger (N64) Audio with David Rushton.
2000-09-19 ESPN MLS GameNight (PS1) Audio Director.
2000-10-30 Army Men: Sarge's Heroes (DC) Audio Director.
2001-03-28 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear (PS1) Sound Director.
2001-05-?? Microsoft Pinball Arcade (GBC) With David Rushton.
2001-10-03 LEGO Bionicle (GBA) With Dave Madden, Todd Sorensen and Rick Bradshaw.
2001-11-04 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Escape from Planet Earth (GBC)
2002-04-30 Combat Medic: Special Operations (W32)
2002-06-27 Barbarian (PS2) With Rick Bradshaw and Dave Madden.
2003-06-25 Motocross Mania 2 (PS1) Audio Director.
2003-09-16 Ford Truck Mania (PS1) Audio Director.
2004-09-29 Outpost Kaloki (W32)
2005-10-30 The Bible Game (GBA) With Eric Robertson.
2005-11-22 Outpost Kaloki X (X360) With Charles Dail Nielson.
2006-01-31 Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd (GBA) Audio.
2006-06-20 Band of Bugs (X360) With Mike Nielsen and Alex Hall.
2007-12-03 Band of Bugs (W64) With Mike Nielsen and Alex Hall.
2008-11-19 A Kingdom for Keflings (X360) With Alex Hall and Mike Nielsen.
2008-11-24 Boingz (WII)
2008-12-05 Bigfoot: Collision Course (WII)
2008-12-17 Dash of Destruction (X360) With Mike Nielson.
2009-01-09 Bigfoot: Collision Course (NDS)
2010-03-24 A Kingdom for Keflings (W64) With Alex Hall and Mike Nielsen.
2010-12-22 A World of Keflings (X360) With Mike Nielsen, Ben Bascom and Randy Slade.
2011-10-25 Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show (X360) Effects Composer.
2011-11-01 Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show (PS3) Effects Composer.
2011-11-01 Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show (WII) Effects Composer.
2012-01-19 Stonekeep: Bones of the Ancestors (WII) Theme Music.
2013-09-10 Nutjitsu (W64)
2014-05-08 Nutjitsu (W64)
2015-07-21 Nutjitsu (W64)
Unreleased Runelords (GBC) With David Rushton?

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