Rik Schaffer


Rik Schaffer is an American composer, musician, and sound designer. He's known as one of the top sound designers in the video game industry. He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music industry as a member of several acts such as Tomorrow's Child and Engines of Aggression. He often works with his partner Margaret Tang.
Rik has also composed original soundtracks for video games, gaining recognition particularly for his work on The Elder Scrolls Online and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.

Discography

Studio albums

Tomorrow's Child.
  • Tomorrow's Child
  • Rocky Coast, Rough Sea
Engines of Aggression.
  • Speak EP
  • Illusion Is Real single
  • Inhuman Nature
  • Engines of Aggression EP
Womb.
  • Bella
Instrumental versions of Clean, Selfless Doubt and As Lonely As I Am are present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
It was reissued on Spotify in 2025 with a slightly altered tracklist as Bella+.
Nectar.
  • Afterglow
An instrumental version of We Just Disagree is present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
The last track Black Sheep is misspelled as "Back Sheep." on the cd jewel case.
Rik Schaffer
  • Fruit of the Poison Tree
Innocence Once Lost is the same edited track originally from Bella, while Another Bite of the Eternal and Evening in Koreatown are reworked versions of The Bite is Eternal and Chinatown Theme respectively.

Video game original scores

Source:
  • Red Asphault – Cinematics & One Song
  • MiG-29 Fulcrum
  • Armored Fist 3 – Additional Music
  • Dark Age Of Camelot
  • Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon
  • The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian
  • Dark Age of Camelot Shrouded Isles
  • Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis
  • Run Like Hell – Womb/Ambient Music
  • Spawn: Armageddon
  • X-Men Legends
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
  • Fantastic Four
  • X-Men: The Official Game
  • Tony Hawk's American Wasteland – Womb/Ambient Music
  • Over the Hedge – Womb/Ambient Music
  • The Shield: The Game
  • Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
  • The Elder Scrolls Online.
  • ''Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2''

    Video game Editorial and Sound Design

Source:
  • Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
  • Crash Nitro Kart
  • Call of Duty
  • Call of Duty: United Offensive
  • X-Men Legends
  • Doom 3
  • Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
  • MTX Mototrax
  • Shark Tale
  • Shrek 2
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Madagascar: Operation Penguin
  • Ultimate Spider-Man
  • Gun
  • Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
  • Quake 4
  • Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War
  • Gothic 3
  • Over the Hedge
  • Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts!
  • Bee Movie Game
  • Shrek the Third
  • Shrek's Carnival Craze
  • Spider-Man 3
  • Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
  • Call of Duty: World at War
  • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • Transformers Animated: The Game
  • Wolfenstein
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Sound & Casting Director
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • Updated
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine
  • Dreamkiller – Casting & Voice Director
  • Alpha Protocol
  • X-Men: Destiny
  • Rage
  • Doom
  • DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders – Sound Coordinator
  • DreamWorks Spirit Lucky's Big Adventure
  • Doom Eternal
  • Transformers: Battlegrounds
  • Evil Dead: The Game
  • Jumanji: Wild Adventures
  • ''Justice League: Cosmic Chaos''