Kai Rosenkranz
Kai Rosenkranz (born July 28, 1980 in Bochum ) is a German game developer , composer and sound designer .
He composed a. a. the music for the computer game series Gothic and Risen . He also operates the KaiRosenkranzMusic YouTube channel with around 6,200 subscribers.
Career
In 1998, when he was still at school and before graduating from high school in the following year, he started working for the game developer Piranha Bytes . There he was the main composer, sound designer, visual effects artist, tool developer and community manager for all Gothic games and the first part of Risen . For his work on Gothic 3 , he was awarded the German Developer Prize 2006 twice in the categories “Best Sound” and “Best Community Support”.
Parallel to his work at Piranha Bytes, he studied media informatics at the Gelsenkirchen University of Applied Sciences from 2004 to 2007 .
In 2009 he founded Nevigo GmbH in Bochum, where he was active as managing director and in charge of the conception of the articy: draft development tool until its insolvency in 2014. In 2014 he started a successful crowdfunding campaign to finance his album Journey Home . This led to the fact that he was hired by Andreas Suika to compose the game The Long Journey Home . In 2016 he left Nevigo and concentrated again exclusively on his composition work.
Games
- 2001: Gothic
- 2002: Gothic II
- 2003: Gothic II: The Night of the Raven
- 2006: Gothic 3
- 2009: Risen
- 2017: The Long Journey Home
- 2018: Pizza Connection 3
- 2018: Aquanox Deep Descent
- 2018: Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry
- 2018: Hanse - empire of merchants
Prices
- 2006: German developer award for Gothic 3 (best sound)
- 2006: German developer award for Gothic 3 (best community support)
- 2018: German computer game award for The Long Journey Home (best production)
Web links
- Official website of Kai Rosenkranz
- Kai Rosenkranz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kai Rosenkranz at Discogs (English)
- Kai Rosenkranz at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ YouTube channel KaiRosenkranzMusic. Retrieved November 23, 2019 .
- ^ Gothic II - official website. (No longer available online.) Piranha Bytes, November 23, 2004, archived from the original on March 29, 2012 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Sören Lohse: German Developer Award 2006 - The result: 'Anno 1701' and 'Gothic 3' successful. In: gameswelt.de. December 14, 2006, accessed October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Xing: Profile Kai Rosenkranz. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Gameswirtschaft: Kai Rosenkranz: "There is no turning back." In: GamesWirtschaft.de. October 12, 2016, accessed on December 31, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Kai Rosenkranz - Facebook post. In: Facebook. July 21, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Don't Dry on Steam. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Assemble Entertainment (ed.): Hanse - Imperium der Kaufmann Handbuch . 2018, p. 18 ( akamaihd.net [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on July 14, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosary, Kai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cairo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer of computer game music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 28, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |