About me
Surprise guest alert, George Sanger is back to party at the poolside! Catch him at the pool set or say hello if you see him around the event!
Internationally known as The Fat Man, George Alistair Sanger’s influence
is hard to overestimate. Through his work, his writings, the founding
of think-tanks, organizations and communities, this “legendary game
audio guru’s” fingerprints are all over much of what it means today to
create game audio or listen to a game. He’s been at it since Thin Ice
for Intellivision in 1983. Games he worked on include Loom, Wing
Commander I and II, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo,
Maniac Mansion, The 7th Guest I and II and Oddword Soulstorm. He wrote
the first general MIDI soundtrack for a game, the first direct-to-MIDI
live recording of musicians, the first Redbook soundtrack included with a
game as a separate disc, the first music for a game that was considered
a “work of art,” and the first soundtrack that was considered a selling
point for the game. Sanger established and managed the team that made
the sound system for the Augmented Reality device, Magic Leap One. He
founded and ran think-tanks that solved audio issues and created
standards (Project BarBQ) and tackle game design's biggest issues
(Project Horseshoe). He wrote a book (The Fat Man on Game Audio: Tasty
Morsels of Sonic Goodness) that has attracted many to make a career of
game audio. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from GANG (of
which he was member #1) in 2015.
He continues to write songs
constantly, score games, advise businesses on Product Strategy and give
lectures, workshops and keynotes worldwide, while teaching and
administrating at Mid-City Community Music, a non-profit Arts
organization.
