Mark Cromer

Developer BIO

Mark Cromer is a composer, arranger, sound designer, and performer who has worked in the industry since 1996. He joined Firaxis Games in 1999 and is their Lead Sound Engineer.

He is "all about sound", whether singing and playing his guitar with the Swing Central Band (a band he founded 20 years ago that has become one of Baltimore's best Swing Bands), recording his own music CD, or creating sound for some of the coolest computer games ever made.

He has a Masters in Classical Guitar from the Peabody Institute, and is one of the most experienced digital audio engineers in the gaming business, having designed sound for games such as Magic: The Gathering, all of the Civilization II add-on packs, MechWarrior III and Falcon IV.

Websites

• Mark Cromer/Cromerzone -- This is Mark Cromer's web page. Here you can videos and music compositions from his music and sound design career.

Games Credited

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (2012), Electronic Arts, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (2009), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (2008), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (2008), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (2008), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (2007), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords (2006), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Railroads! (2006), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV (2005), 2K Games, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004), Atari, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization III: Conquests (2003), Atari, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization III (Gold Edition) (2003), Atari Europe S.A.S.U.
• Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World (2002), Infogrames, Inc.
• Sid Meier's SimGolf (2002), Electronic Arts, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization III (2001), Infogrames Europe SA
• Sid Meier's Civilization III (Limited Edition) (2001), Infogrames, Inc.
• Civilization II (Multiplayer Gold Edition) (1999), MacSoft
• Civilization II: Test of Time (1999), Hasbro Interactive S.N.C.
• MechWarrior 3 (1999), Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
• European Air War (1998), MicroProse Software, Inc.
• M1 Tank Platoon II (1998), MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard (1998), MicroProse Software, Inc.
• X-COM: Interceptor (1998), MicroProse Ltd.
• Civilization II: Fantastic Worlds (1997), MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Magic: The Gathering (1997), MicroProse Software, Inc.
• Sid Meier's Civilization II Scenarios: Conflicts in Civilization (1996), MicroProse Software, Inc.