Rudy Helm
Moby ID: 3685
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Rudy Helm has been working in the defense industry as a multimedia specialist since 1999. Earlier, he founded AT THE HELM (aka Helm Productions) in late 1996 with the mission to create compelling interactive audio for software entertainment development teams. Prior, he has held in-house composer/sound designer positions with two corporate giants in the entertainment software industry, Accolade (now a part of Atari) and Sierra On-line (a division of Vivendi Universal).
Helm has served as co-chairman of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group (IA-SIG).
He was a co-founder of The Kessner-Helm Project, a musical recording act with five national releases to their credit. Helm has a background in the in the music industry spanning nearly 20 years before entering the interactive industry. In the late '70's he penned two symphonies (premiered by the Southern Indiana Orchestra), and an electronic score for modern ballet. Helm went on to serve as music director for a production of Shakespear's Titus Andronicus for Actors Theatre of Louisville, composed a score for Louisville's televised public service clean-up campaign, as well as provide music beds for multi-image (stills + video) corporate convention-presentations.
Helm holds a B.A. in Music (guitar emphasis) from Bellarmine College where he earned the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.
Credited on 15 games
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| Montezuma's Return (1997, Windows) | Sound Effects |
| Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant (1997, Windows) | Sound Effects |
| Eradicator (1996, DOS) | Additional Music Support |
| Star Control 3 (1996, DOS) | Sound Support |
| Deadlock: Planetary Conquest (1996, Windows 16-bit) | Sound |
| Unnecessary Roughness '96 (1995, DOS) | Music |
| Barkley: Shut Up and Jam 2 (1995, Genesis) | Sound and Music |
| Super Bubsy (1995, Windows) | Special thanks to the original Bubsy design team |
| Unnecessary Roughness '95 (1994, DOS) | Music / Sound |
| Barkley: Shut Up and Jam! (1994, SNES) | Sound |
| Hoyle Classic Card Games (1993, DOS) | Music Conversions & Sound Effects |
| Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993, Genesis) | Music Conversion |
| Speed Racer in The Challenge of Racer X (1993, DOS) | Sound |
| Quest for Glory III: Wages of War (1992, DOS) | Music |
| The Dagger of Amon Ra (1992, DOS) | Additional Music and Sound Effects |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Richard Kelly
- 6 games with David Houston
- 6 games with John Xu
- 6 games with Alex V. Cabal
- 6 games with Shirley Sellers
- 5 games with Patricia Pearson
- 5 games with Kelley Pinson
- 5 games with Dexx Dorris
- 5 games with Steve M. Martinez
- 5 games with Steven Graziano
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Companies
- 10 games with Accolade, Inc.
- 3 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 2 games with WEA Visual Entertainment
- 2 games with Tectoy S.A.
- 1 game with Zygote Media Group Inc.
- 1 game with Viewpoint Datalabs
- 1 game with Utopia Technologies Inc.
- 1 game with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 1 game with Warner Interactive...
- 1 game with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
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