| Robert Prince | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Robert Caskin Prince III |
| Also known as | "Bobby Prince" |
| Genres | Video game music |
| Occupations | Composer, Musician |
| Website | www.bpmusic.com |
Robert Prince, also known as Bobby Prince, is a composer and sound designer. He has worked as an independent contractor for several gaming companies, most notably id Software and Apogee/3D Realms.
He has created music and sound effects for Commander Keen 4-6, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Pickle Wars, Catacomb 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Blake Stone, Doom, Rise of the Triad, Doom II, Duke Nukem II, Duke Nukem 3D, Abuse, Demonstar, as well as other games. He has also composed music for commercials and independent films. In 2006, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by his fellow game composers. He is currently composing sound and music for the game Wrack (formerly Last Bastion).
Prince is a lawyer who passed the bar in 1980.[1] He was a 1LT platoon leader in Vietnam 1969-70.
Contents |
Prince's best-known and most enduring work is the soundtrack to the original Doom. The Doom soundtrack grew extremely popular among gamers, with fans doing various cover versions and remix projects more than 15 years after the game's release. It is one of the most popular soundtracks on the OverClocked ReMix website.[2]
Several tracks from the game are arrangements of various songs from popular Heavy Metal bands, such as Pantera and Alice in Chains. John Romero, a co-developer of Doom, claims that Bobby used his knowledge of copyright law when creating the music because he "knew the legal amount of sampling that he could do without getting into trouble."[3]