Jake Kaufman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jake Kaufman
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Apr 3, 1981(1981-04-03)
Age	43
Birthplace	United States
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Jake Kaufman Biography

Jake Kaufman is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on April 3, 1981 in United States, United States. Kaufman was born on April 3, 1981. He dropped out of high school, with what he describes as “a total lack of work ethic and no concept of timeliness or organization.” He spent the next few years composing arrangements and remixes of video game music under the alias “virt”. In 2000, Kaufman broke into the video game industry as a composer, with his first work being the Game Boy Color port of Q*bert. Over the next few years, he composed the music to several Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games. In 2002, Kaufman was one of the co-founders of the website VGMix, which hosted video game music remixes.

In February 2015, Kaufman collaborated with Jessie Seely, a video game vocalist and professional artist, to launch the Kickstarter campaign of [NUREN] The New Renaissance. [NUREN] was self-described as “the world’s first virtual reality rock opera.” The project was planned to be a full-length music album, accompanied by music videos that users would experience using a head- mounted display such as the Oculus Rift. The proposed music and videos were set in a post-war future society where androids cater to humanity’s needs; two prototype androids named QGK and RIX were planned as the main subjects of the project. In March 2015, the project was successfully funded with $76,950 raised. The project was slated to arrive to Kickstarter backers in February

2016. In his August 2016 Kickstarter update, Kaufman cited “contracting work” and a “ridiculous client workload” as obstacles to completing [NUREN]. Kaufman now broadcasts bi-weekly live development sessions via his Twitch channel.

While working at WayForward, Kaufman composed music for the Shantae series, the BloodRayne series, and nearly a dozen other games. During this time he also composed music for independent games such as Shovel Knight. On November 1, 2014, Kaufman announced that he was leaving WayForward on mutual terms to work as a freelance composer and sound designer from his own studio, in order to be able to set his own schedule and choose his own projects. The last games which he worked on for the company were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze and Shantae: Half-Genie Hero.

Jake Kaufman Net Worth

Jake Kaufman is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jake Kaufman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jacob Kaufman (also known as virt or virtjk) (born April 3, 1981) is an American video game music composer. After starting out creating arrangements and remixes of video game soundtracks, he began his commercial composing career in 2000 with the score to the Game Boy Color port of Q*bert. He continued to compose music for games for the next couple of years, working primarily with handheld video games. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix, which hosts video game music remixes, and continues to administrate it. His career began to take off over the next few years, resulting in him transitioning jobs into a full-time freelance composer by 2005. Since then he has worked on several big-name projects such as the Shantae series, Contra 4, Red Faction: Guerrilla, DuckTales: Remastered, and Shovel Knight.

During 2002–2005, Kaufman’s career as a video game music composer began to take off. By 2005, he was a full-time freelance video game composer. He continued to compose music to increasingly big-name projects, such as Contra 4 and TMNT in 2007 and Red Faction: Guerrilla in 2009; he described composing the soundtrack to a Contra game and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game as his “lifelong dream”. Kaufman contributed a track to the official arranged album of music from Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi. He was a full-time employee of Volition while working on Red Faction, but in January 2010, he left the company to become the “lead audio guy” for WayForward, for which he had already composed several soundtracks such as those of Shantae and Contra 4. For WayForward he first composed the soundtrack to Shantae: Risky’s Revenge, the sequel to the game he worked on ten years prior. Original Sound Version named Kaufman their Composer of the Year for 2011, based on his work on BloodRayne: Betrayal and Mighty Switch Force, as well as several other soundtracks and arranged albums. Kaufman lives with his puggle Nugget in northern Los Angeles.

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Who is Jake Kaufman Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Brandyn Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jake Kaufman celebrates birthday on April 3 of every year.

What software does Jake Kaufman use?

E-Mu Proteus 2000.

Who made the music for shovel Knight?

Composers

Who composed shantae and the seven sirens?

Shantae and the Seven Sirens
Writer(s)| Matt Bozon
Composer(s)| Kentaro Sakamoto Mark Sparling Madeline Lim Gavin Allen
Series| Shantae
Platform(s)| iOS macOS Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One

Which is better Hollow Knight or Shovel Knight?

Winner Shovel Knight If you prefer Hollow Knight or Shovel Knight, you’re right because both of these games are wonderful. Personally, I give the edge to Shovel Knight because its campaign is a lot more densely action-packed and that’s something that I prefer in my 2D games.

Will Shovel Knight get a sequel?

Is Shovel Knight Dig a sequel? Shovel Knight Dig is not a sequel but a spin-off, much like Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon. It follows the iconic Shovel Knight on a new adventure.