Mark Seibert


Mark Seibert is an American musician, composer, and producer best known for his work on various video games from Sierra Entertainment.

Biography

Seibert was born in California, U.S. From 1979 to 1986, he performed guitar and vocals for a Christian band called Omega Sunrise. He recorded two albums with the group in 1983 and 1985, the second of which saw moderate success in various US markets. After a final concert in Fresno, California in 1986, the group broke up due to the demands of constant touring.
Mark Seibert claims he is most proud of his compositions in Phantasmagoria. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in music at California State University, Fresno in 1983, and also started on a second degree in Math in 1986. As of 2014, he was working as a mathematics teacher at the Perry Hall Christian School in Maryland.
In 1987, Seibert answered a newspaper advertisement from a computer game company called Sierra On-Line. After several months of delay, the company hired him as a musician and music editor for King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella. He worked as a musician on this and other projects, but after only a few years, he was promoted to the company's music director. This meant that he worked with staff musicians in both composition and editing.
In 1992, he was promoted again to producer, which meant he was involved in all aspects of game production, not just the music. However, this also meant that he was less able to actually compose music, though he did continue to perform pieces by other composers. He left the company in 2001.
Despite having produced numerous adventure games over his career, in a 1997 interview Seibert said that though he likes the genre, he had never played one through to the end: "I always get halfway through and get stuck someplace, and then I have to download the walk-through off the Internet and read the solution, and it's always like, 'Well that's a stupid puzzle!' I get so frustrated, I throw it down and never pick it back up."
Later he went to work for Gentle Revolution Software as the Director of Development. He worked with NASA on a game centered around the International Space Station.
He has been married to Debbie Seibert since 1980. They have two daughters.

Video game soundtracks

  • Police Quest II: The Vengeance
  • Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero
  • Codename: Iceman
  • Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail
  • King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!
  • Mixed-Up Mother Goose
  • King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
  • Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
  • Phantasmagoria
  • ''Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!''

    Other works

  • Feel the Change
  • Run from the Night
  • The Long Shot
  • King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
  • Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon
  • Silpheed
  • Firehawk: Thexder The Second Contact
  • Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals
  • Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 1
  • King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown
  • Oil's Well
  • Police Quest III: The Kindred
  • Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire
  • Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 2
  • Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3
  • Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers
  • EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
  • Castle of Dr. Brain
  • Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter
  • Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
  • Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work
  • Mixed-Up Fairy Tales
  • Quest for Glory I: So You Want to Be a Hero
  • Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
  • Jones in the Fast Lane
  • Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra
  • The Island of Dr. Brain
  • Take-a-Break! Pinball for Windows
  • Pepper's Adventures in Time
  • The Shadow of Yserbius
  • Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
  • Quest for Glory III: Wages of War
  • Outpost
  • King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
  • Torin's Passage
  • Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail!
  • King's Quest: Mask of Eternity
  • Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
  • Throne of Darkness
  • ''SpaceStationSim''