Jeff van Dyck

Who is Jeff van Dyck?

Jeff van Dyck is a Canadian/Australian video game music composer. Born in 1969 and raised in Vancouver, Canada, Van Dyck is a freelance composer, audio director and sound designer currently working with Sega, Kixeye and is a partner in the Brisbane based developer WitchBeam.

He started to become known in the video game music industry in 1992, when he was working with Electronic Arts for several sports game franchises, such as the Need for Speed series, together with Saki Kaskas.

After his stint in EA, Van Dyck became the composer for the popular Total War franchise of The Creative Assembly. During his collaboration with the video game developer, Van Dyck won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award and garnered a nomination. One of the games that he worked audio on as well, Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, was nominated for the "Audio Achievement" section of the Develop awards in May 2012.