Mark Seibert (born 1960) is an American musician, composer, and producer best known for his work on various video games from
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and Video game publisher, publisher founded in 1979 by Ken Williams (game developer), Ken and Roberta Williams. The company is ...
.
Biography
Seibert was born in
California
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, U.S. From 1979 to 1986, he performed guitar and vocals for a
Christian
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band called
Omega Sunrise. He recorded two albums with the group in 1983 and 1985, the second of which saw moderate success in various US markets. After a final concert in
Fresno, California
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in 1986, the group broke up due to the demands of constant touring.
Mark Seibert claims he is most proud of his compositions in Phantasmagoria (1995). He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in music at California State University, Fresno in 1983, and also started on a second degree in Math in 1986. As of 2014, he was working as a mathematics teacher at the Perry Hall Christian School in Maryland.
In 1987, Seibert answered a newspaper advertisement from a
computer
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game company called Sierra On-Line. After several months of delay, the company hired him as a musician and
music editor
The term music editor may refer to one of several occupations. In publishing, a music editor is a person who prepares music manuscripts for publication. The use of music editors began at the onset of music publishing in Europe in the late 15th cent ...
for ''
King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella''. He worked as a musician on this and other projects, but after only a few years, he was promoted to the company's music director. This meant that he worked with staff musicians in both composition and editing.
In 1992, he was promoted again to producer, which meant he was involved in all aspects of game production, not just the music. However, this also meant that he was less able to actually compose music, though he did continue to perform pieces by other composers. He left the company in 2001.
Despite having produced numerous
adventure game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story, driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based m ...
s over his career, in a 1997 interview Seibert said that though he likes the genre, he had never played one through to the end: "I always get halfway through and get stuck someplace, and then I have to download the
walk-through off the Internet and read the solution, and it's always like, 'Well that's a stupid puzzle!' I get so frustrated, I throw it down and never pick it back up."
Later he went to work for Gentle Revolution Software as the Director of Development. He worked with NASA on a game centered around the International Space Station.
He has been married to Debbie Seibert since 1980. They have two daughters (Kirsten - b. 1991, Kaitlin - b. 1994).
Video game soundtracks
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Police Quest II: The Vengeance'' (1988)
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Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero'' (1989)
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Codename: Iceman'' (1989)
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Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail'' (1989)
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King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!'' (1990)
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Mixed-Up Mother Goose'' (enhanced
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM (, compact disc read-only memory) is a type of read-only memory consisting of a pre-pressed optical compact disc that contains computer data storage, data computers can read, but not write or erase. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold b ...
version) (1992) (with
Amenda-Lombardo and
Ken Allen
Kenneth Allen (February 13, 1971 – December 1, 2000) was a Bornean orangutan at the San Diego Zoo in California, United States. He became one of the most popular animals in the zoo's history because of his many successful escapes from his ...
)
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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'' (1992) (wrote and produced "
Girl in the Tower", a remix of a theme heard in the previous game where he was the composer.)
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Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood'' (1993) (also music director)
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Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria (), alternatively fantasmagorie and/or fantasmagoria, was a form of horror theatre that (among other techniques) used one or more magic lanterns to project frightening images – such as skeletons, demons, and ghosts – typicall ...
'' (1995) (also Producer and singer of the ending song "Take a Stand")
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Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!'' (1996) (also Producer and Sound Effects)
Other works
*Feel the Change (with Omega Sunrise) (1983)
*Run from the Night (with Omega Sunrise) (1985)
*The Long Shot (Sequencing and Sequence Editing) (1988)
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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella'' (1988) (Musician/Editor)
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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon'' (1988) (Musician/Editor)
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Silpheed
is a video game developed by Game Arts and designed by Takeshi Miyaji. It made its debut on the Japanese PC-8801 in 1986, and was ported to the Fujitsu FM-7 and DOS formats soon after. It was later remade for the Sega CD and has a sequel cal ...
'' (1988) (Music Editor)
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Firehawk: Thexder The Second Contact'' (1990) (Music Director)
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Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals'' (1989) (Music/Sound Programming)
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Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1'' (1989) (Music Director)
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King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown'' (1989) (VGA remake) (Music Director)
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Oil's Well
''Oil's Well'' (a pun on "all's well") is a video game published by Sierra On-Line in 1983. The game was written for the Atari 8-bit computers by Thomas J. Mitchell. ''Oil's Well'' is similar to the 1982 arcade game ''Anteater'', re-themed to be ...
'' (1990) (Music Director)
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Police Quest III: The Kindred'' (1990) (Music Director)
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire'' (1990) (Music Director)
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Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2'' (1990) (Music Director)
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Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3'' (1991) (Music/Sound Programming)
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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers'' (1991) (Music Director, Voice Actor (CD-ROM))
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus'' (1991) (Music Director)
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Castle of Dr. Brain'' (1991) (Music Director/Musician)
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Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter'' (1991) (VGA remake) (Music Director)
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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards'' (VGA remake) (1991) (Music Director)
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Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'' (1991) (Music/Sound Programming)
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Mixed-Up Fairy Tales
''Mixed-Up Fairy Tales'' is a graphic adventure game released by Sierra On-Line in 1991. It is a follow-up to '' Mixed-Up Mother Goose'' and was made for younger players than those of Sierra's ''King's Quest'' or ''Space Quest'' series. In it, the ...
'' (1991) (Music Arrangement/Performance)
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Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero'' (VGA remake) (1992) (Music Director)
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Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel'' (VGA remake) (1992) (Music Director)
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Jones in the Fast Lane
''Jones in the Fast Lane'' is a social simulation game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems. It was developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1991. Using a board game motif, the objective is to attain certain amounts of money, happin ...
'' (Enhanced CD-ROM Version) (1992) (Director)
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Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra'' (1992) (Music Director)
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The Island of Dr. Brain'' (1992) (Music Director)
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Take-a-Break! Pinball for Windows'' (Musician) (1993)
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Pepper's Adventures in Time'' (1993) (Producer/Musician)
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The Shadow of Yserbius
''The Shadow of Yserbius'', originally published by Sierra On-Line and developed by Joe Ybarra of Ybarra Productions, was the first of three graphical MUDs for the online community. ''The Shadow of Yserbius'' and its successors remained online ...
'' (boxed version) (Producer)
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers'' (1993) (Sound)
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Quest for Glory III: Wages of War'' (1993) (Music Director)
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Outpost'' (1994) (Musician)
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride'' (1994) (Producer/Musician)
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Torin's Passage
''Torin's Passage'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1995. The game was designed by Al Lowe, author of the ''Leisure Suit Larry'' series.
Gameplay
The player interacts with Torin and the in-game ...
'' (1995) (Producer)
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Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!'' (1996) (Producer/Musician)
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King's Quest: Mask of Eternity'' (1998) (Director/Producer/Musician/Co-designer)
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Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura'' (2001) (Executive Producer)
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Throne of Darkness'' (2001) (Producer)
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SpaceStationSim'' (2004) (Director of Development)
References
External links
Mark Seibert's homepageInterview with Mark Seibert at Sierra On-Line, Adventure Classic Gaming (1999)
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Artist profile
at OverClocked ReMix
OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-commercial organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs, both with new technology and software and by vari ...
''Mark Seibert''
profile at MobyGames
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American video game producers
Living people
Sierra On-Line employees
American video game composers
1960 births