A multiple award-winning composer, Jason Hayes is best known for his long-s… Read Full Bio ↴A multiple award-winning composer, Jason Hayes is best known for his long-standing relationship with Blizzard Entertainment. You can hear his music in all of Blizzard's recent games set in the popular worlds of StarCraft, Diablo and WarCraft. Most recently, he was the lead composer on World of WarCraft. Among other contributions, his specialty has been to write the musical score for the widely acclaimed short animated movies produced by the Blizzard Film Department. In this context, he's won the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) award for āBest Cinematic / Cut-scene Audioā two years in a row.
He began his interest in music and interactive media as a child, when he would construct elaborate interactive adventure games for his friends that contained their own musical score using his tape recorder. Heās always had an interest in puzzle solving and creative emotional expression putting music to picture- a good match for working in the computer game industry.
Jason was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a young adult he discovered his passion for music composition while studying piano with the renowned concert pianist, Dr. William Chapman-Nyaho. He started a band of his own and started playing in local clubs. His talents became known in the local music scene, so when the recording artist "Kyper" was looking for a back up band for his national tour, Jasonās band was asked to fill the spot. After touring around the nation for a year, Jason resumed his college studies as a music composition major at the University of North Texas. Soon after, he married the love of his life Tiffany and decided to move to California to enter the professional world. It was then that he began his career as a staff composer at Sierra On-Line, which eventually led to him joining the award-winning development team at Blizzard Entertainment.
Currently he's the audio director and composer of Carbine Studios, and working on an unannounced MMO game.
He began his interest in music and interactive media as a child, when he would construct elaborate interactive adventure games for his friends that contained their own musical score using his tape recorder. Heās always had an interest in puzzle solving and creative emotional expression putting music to picture- a good match for working in the computer game industry.
Jason was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. As a young adult he discovered his passion for music composition while studying piano with the renowned concert pianist, Dr. William Chapman-Nyaho. He started a band of his own and started playing in local clubs. His talents became known in the local music scene, so when the recording artist "Kyper" was looking for a back up band for his national tour, Jasonās band was asked to fill the spot. After touring around the nation for a year, Jason resumed his college studies as a music composition major at the University of North Texas. Soon after, he married the love of his life Tiffany and decided to move to California to enter the professional world. It was then that he began his career as a staff composer at Sierra On-Line, which eventually led to him joining the award-winning development team at Blizzard Entertainment.
Currently he's the audio director and composer of Carbine Studios, and working on an unannounced MMO game.
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@normahS
Dear fellow WoW-player. I am myself playing WoW and have been doing so since vanilla. I used to play several games, both RPG and RTS and some FPS. And of course Diablo 1,2 and now 3. But after WoW, i can't find any real entertainment in other games anymore. They all become dull, boring and flat in comparison. The atmosphere created by both music, sound effects and graphics are unique. Also, since Blizz continuously updates it with mostly great stuff, it's a game you play for a long time, for many people like me, for years. It's been 8 years now.
There's something special with things you do or experience for such a long time, and it doesn't matter if it's in a game or irl. You end up with tons of memories. New aquaintances, friends and experiences.
Myself, i started raiding fulltime when i became single in 2006. After first levelling a hunter, i desired a role with more responsability so i levelled a healer, but then iĀ befriended a tank which i ran instances with for weeks, and i thought for myself that to become a good healer, i needed to know how tanking works. So i levelled a protwarr and fell in total love with it.
I started a guild, which ended up being fun and the need for a webpage appeared. So i learned some webdesign and how to set up a forum (phpbb), and it was all great fun.
I still play Protwarr, but in the meantime, i also levelled all the other classes to maxlvl, some several times. :-)
The last year i've played with my girlfriend who also loves the game.
But, and this is why i actually bothered commenting... :-)
You NEVER need to excuse yourself, or to "put people to place" or "in your face" them to prove you're not a loser. Haters and trolls will ALWAYS see that as an opportunity and use it as a hook for some other hateful shit.
The people you care about, probably respect you wether you play WoW or not, the people who flame you or for some weird daddy- or mommy-issue-reason need to call you names just because you control other pixels on your pc than they do, well... who cares what people who doesn't respect you thinks anyways?
If i were a troll, i would probably say that studying dentistry is more nerdy than playing WoW. ;-D
Enjoying life, enough said. :-)
@Harridsworth
normahSĀ I remember when I first started playing. It was quite literally, the start of BC. I remember being young and stupid, I remember when my brother first made his night elf hunter and got I pet, I yelled, "No fair! I want a pet!" So I made my first character, a Draenei hunter I named Neoa. I remember when I first crept into Azuremyst, I felt like I was one in a million, the way Blizz made me look. I chose the face with three scars on each side, the hair with the braids down my side. I love him, I still do. Every night on him, I will spend thirty minutes just sitting in Azuremyst and Bloodmyst, even though I haven't really explored it all on him, I remember all the places. I remember the first time going to the Exodar, seeing the massive elekks. The large, beautiful, creatures. I said, "I will be able to ride one of those when I'm level forty." And when I first traversed into the Exodar, as a level eight nub. I loved it, I still love it. I love the feel of the exiled Draenei, the way the entire place was set up, the Naaru at the bottom, I loved to watch all the twisting magic go by and to run up the arcane ramp. I remember falling in love with Velen and his look, his beard, I remember thinking Ā that that's how I wanted my character to look in four years, old and wise. Yet strange; as I cannot even change his hair style now without tearing up.Ā
I remember that i never leveled, I loved the quests and reading the quests and learning all about this wide strange world, I loved it because it wasn't Earth. I didn't need to pay attention to Earth, I hadn't needed to worry so much about the school work or the family problems that may have risen, no, I was too busy exploring Azeroth! I remember finally finding my way to Stormwind, level eleven, I remember finally getting to Goldshire and hearing.. This song.. I remember immensely well going up every path I could. I remember finding that one waterfall, the one I still go to when I feel sad, Thunder Falls. Right above Westbrook Garrison, on the border of Elwynn and Westfall. Ya.. Those were the good ol' times, I remember never having my pet out despite my complaining, I remember I never really kept the first pet I got because I never really liked it. I remember somehow finding my way down to Booty Bay at the level of twenty, I died a lot but I enjoyed exploring.. The res sickness.. Nesingwary.. Hahah, I even remember when my brother and father called me crazy for believing in, "Booty bay! With the big goblin statue!" I remember shouting, "It's true! It's true!" Funny how the area I love the most is also the one I wanted to kill though, because I remember wanting to become a Bloodsail Buccaner(Still working on that by the way). Then I remember going to Ratchet, then to the Thousand Needles, to Tanaris, and finally I found my way to Un'Goro, the crater that was to change how I played Neoa forever. I stopped there, I stopped looking at other pets. I had my eyes aimed at the one almighty king of the crater, the Devilsaur. I was thoroughly disappointed when I found out I couldn't tame one, yet. I loved the white one, the elusive one, the one who would sneak up and kill me while I wasn't paying attention but would disappear when I wanted to find it. From there on I got a little pet, one I never named, I worked myself to level even though I hated leveling at the time. I got to level sixty three. That's when Wrath of the Lich King came out, my father was seventy with raiding gear, my brother was seventy with PvP gear, I was sixty three with quest gear. Hah.. .Funny thing.. Isn't it? Now my brother doesn't even play anymore, and my father can barely remember what zone in which, yet I sit here.. And I seemed to have memorized the routes to each zone.. I remember I ended up finally getting the elusive white Devilsaur at the level of sixty five or so, from there on I named him Whitespike.Ā
I could go on for line upon line on this game and my memories of it, but you'd see me in a ball weeping. But this game has done so much for me, it gave me a best friend who understood me no matter how crazy and indifferent I was to the world(My character), a pet I could love and care for no matter what happened, and would be there for me when I lost somebody in the physical world(Whitespike, as well as Neoa too), it gave me a home outside and away from home, it's given me inspiration and joy, knowledge beyond any that simply surpassed what I was learning in the schools at the time. But by far, the most grateful thing I have ever received from WoW, it was not a virtual friend or pet, no virtual world or virutal home, not a virtual journey that I was privileged to take before the Cataclysm. I remember I left for six months during Cataclysm, because the stress of my guild's Firelands raiding got to me as a healer and I couldn't take it, I discouraged myself and called myself a bad healer to the group, that they could use better(I in fact got back in touch with my old Cataclysm raid leader who informed me at the time I was the seventeenth best healer on the server which was pretty good for what I was able to do at the time). I left for SWTOR, holy light bless that game, it was wonderful but, it was no WoW. Six months, I played six months, then I finally found my excuse to come back to WoW. SWTOR was declining rapidly, and I was given a scroll of resurrection. I took it in a heartbeat, as happy as a child with a lollipop and other candies. I remember being the first level ninety in my old casual guild, which I am now the assistant GM of, and during Mists of Pandaria, that is when I was given my gift of life-time gratitude, that's when I met my fiancee on this silly little game I used to escape reality.
Funny, isn't it? The people who yelled at me for playing this game now live with miserable lives, I empathize and sympathize for them, but I now sit here with dreams, inspiration, friends, a home and group, an escape and the love of my life, all because I played a silly game and got hooked when I was little young one. I owe this game a lot, it is quite literally, my childhood. I played outside of course, but I loved to slay dragons as a little kid with my father while I pressed his one key whenever he needed to generate threat for the team. Hahah, I was stupid. I ended up taking his first seventy too, I was also spoiled hahah. My first mount at level forty was pretty much handed to me by my dad and his friends. Anyway, this was just my story of WoW.
"Archenon poros," to you! "Dioniss aca," as well! And remember, the Naaru have not forgotten us. :)
@whatever
this song...2005...hit right in the feels...
@Ewiryh
Heaviest feels.
@DiffusionGaming
you guys gonna do wow vids on the nevermind channel?
@Jason-zc6uo
you used the tune for the end of youe pickup line feelings. haha
@oxeatheman
nobody makes me feel my own feels :(
@lotdog18
right in da feels, I am feeling too much
@eatsleepgame3467
Not like a game i once played, but a place i once visited.
@Average_Pleb
So true. #thefeels Ā
@The500k
Damn right man.
@kennethsle404
:'(