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Jeff van Dyck

Jeff van Dyck

Musical artist

Jeff van Dyck, known as simply Jeff Dyck in his early years, is a Canadian-Australian video game composer. Born and raised in Vancouver, van Dyck started to become known in the video game music industry in 1992, when he was working with Electronic Arts (EA) for several sports game franchises, such as the Need for Speed series, together with Saki Kaskas. After his stint with EA, van Dyck moved to Australia and became the composer for the Total War franchise by Creative Assembly. During his collaboration with the video game developer, van Dyck won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (2001) and garnered a nomination (2005). As composer and audio director Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, he was nominated for the "Audio Achievement" section of the Develop awards in May 2012. In 2014 again as audio director, his team won a BAFTA for Alien: Isolation. Van Dyck is a partner in the Brisbane based indie developers Witch Beam (Assault Android Cactus, Unpacking[1]) and EarthWork Games (Forts).

In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Dyck, not Dyck.
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    Notis, Ari (4 November 2021). "Puzzle Game Unpacking Has 14,000 Sound Files For Ordinary Stuff". Kotaku. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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    "Interactive - Music in 2001". BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 6 Nov 2016.
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    "Games - Original Music in 2005". British Academy Games Awards. British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
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