Hannes Seifert

Hannes Seifert (born 1971) is an Austrian video game developer, musician, and producer. He co-founded neo Software which became Rockstar Vienna and part of Take 2 in 2001. He started in 1987, co-founded a couple of companies, and is frequently referred to as Austria's most influential figure in the international games industry.

Biography

At the current peak of his career Seifert was credited as executive producer for the Xbox ports of Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and senior producer of the video game versions of the Max Payne franchise next to Sam Houser. Before that Seifert had already produced a large number of computer and video games.

Most of his career Seifert worked with Niki Laber, another Austrian computer games veteran. Their latest enterprise is 2006 founded and announced games production company Games That Matter which was acquired by Koch Media in 2007 and turned into Deep Silver Vienna which he left end of January 2010 to join Square Enix at IO Interactive.

Although Seifert is a well known figure in the development scene his public appearances and InterViews are rare.

His most recently announced games are Cursed Mountain and Ride To Hell.

Credits

• Cursed Mountain (2009) (Executive Producer)
• Max Payne 2 (2003) (Senior Producer)
• Grand Theft Auto III (2003) (Executive Producer)
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2003) (Executive Producer)
• Max Payne (2001) (Producer)
• The Sting! (2001) (Producer)
• Alien Nations (1999) (Producer, Music)
• Rent-A-Hero (1998) (Producer, Writer, Music)
• Prototype (1995) (Producer, Music)
• Der Clou! (1994) (Producer, Music)
• Oscar (1994) (Music)
• Burntime (1993) (Music)
• Skunny Kart (1993) (Music)
• Whale's Voyage (1993) (Lead Programmer, Music)
• 1869 (1992) (Music)

Trivia

• Hannes Seifert created a proprietary sound system and file format that made it into file-extensions.org: the HSC format.
• Chicken / Electronic Rats ripped the HSC music replay routines and created one of the most widely used FM music players and formats ever. It was used in many BBS intros, and the replay routines had interfaces in C, Pascal, and Assembler.
• Hannes Seifert was also credited as executive producer of Manhunt 2 by a former Rockstar employee. But he never officially claimed this credit.

External links

• Hannes Seifert entry at MobyGames
• Hannes Seifert entry at Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Hannes Seifert at Amiga Music Preservation

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