December’s Featured Sound Designer: Jeff Seamster

December’s here, and it brings with it our next featured sound designer…Jeff Seamster.

Jeff’s career in game development and interactive audio includes high-profile titles such as Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe, Blitz: The League II, SimCity Societies, Caesar IV, and Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War. He has been responsible for sound design at Midway Games and Stainless Steel Studios as well as audio direction at Tilted Mill Entertainment. He is now Senior Sound Designer at Irrational Games.

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Jeff studied piano performance privately under Gordon Brown and at the Loyola University College of Music under H. Jac McCracken. Following an interest in composition and programmatic music, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts to study film scoring and piano performance at the Berklee College of Music where he expanded his studies to explore the field of sound design.

Jeff graduated from the Boston University computer science program with a desire to merge the fields of sound design, music and technology. He now uses his diverse background to design and create immersive aural environments for the next generation of interactive entertainment.

Welcome, Jeff!