Austin Haynes is a freelance composer specializing in making heartfelt music for media.
Austin began delving in music at the age of 15 but many years before that, he was found playing many games on NES and then Super Nintendo where he began to appreciate video game music in Final Fantasy III and Chrono Trigger. This was what influenced him to pursue composing altogether.
He began working with a group from Digipen, a video game school founded by Nintendo, to gain experience composing game music. Two projects called “Fight Zone”, a first person shooter and “Kisses” a social simulation game were released. Kisses was nominated as one of the top 10 “2005 IGF -Independent Games Festival Competition Finalists.
Austin’s most recent game music is an adventure game for Phoenix Online Studios (Vivendi-Universal) originally called King’s Quest IX, based on the classic series , now called “The Silver Lining”. This project has been split into 5 episodes consisting of hours of orchestral music. Austin is the lead composer and has received tons of praise for the music that brought the game to a whole new level. The soundtrack of Episodes 1 and 2 have been released on the official website for the game which is www.tsl-game.com with a second part for Episodes 3-5 coming in the future.
He has also explored film by working on “The Way He Makes Them Feel” and a project called, “An Inconvenient Penguin” which receieved great accaim for it’s score.