• Director

  Nate Horsfall

  lightningarts.com

• Co-Director

  Kurt Horsfall

  firebornform.deviantart.com

• Web Design & Development

  Jeremiah Roque

  jeremiahroque.com

• Marketing

  Jayson Napolitano

  scarletmoonproductions.com

• Licensing

  Sebastian Wolff

  loudr.fm

• Tagging & Moral Support

  Steph Prader

• Artwork

  Nate "FoxxDragon" Horsfall

  lightningarts.com

  Kurt "FenixBlue" Horsfall

  firebornform.deviantart.com

  Heather "Cronoan" Wright

  cronoan.deviantart.com

  MaikoZ

  cargocollective.com/Maikonkon

  Ali "Djantir" Floyd

  djantir.deviantart.com

  Brandon "BWitteArt" Witte

  bwitteart.blogspot.com

  Thomas "NickelEdge" Dougherty

  www.nickeledge.com

  Fredrik "fedde" Mattsson

  fedde.deviantart.com

  Joshua Moyer

  bonusjosh.tumblr.com

  Daniel Hooker

  danielhooker.deviantart.com

  Antonio "Butzbo" Villamandos

  facebook.com/whwll.llwhw

  Heavy Metal Hanzo

  heavymetalhanzo.deviantart.com

  Gavin Li

  gavinli.deviantart.com

  Chuck Simpson

  www.finbeard.com

Music

Special Thanks

(in order that they were thanked)

• Dad

• Special thanks to Nate for giving me the chance to finally do legit VGM covers, Alyssa, Damian, Erica, Dom, Grant, Dave, Ashley, Doug, Chris, Jeff, Mikhail, Steven & Sam and my mama & tata for all their musical expertise, Chuck for his helpful drumming/recording advice, LRS, Jayson, Amanda & Lauren & The World is Square for their constant inspiration, Brave Wave, VGMpire, VGMO, Jer for his awesomeness, the original Square dev team and last but not least CT composers Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu & Tsuyoshi Sekito for their supreme compositional magic.

• The Greed

• Randy "Macho Man" Savage, for all the years of inspiration, not only in music, but in how to live life.

• Mandy for her love and patience, and Mikhail for helping me make the kind of music I've dreamed of making for years.

• Chuck's Dad

• Wayne Hoffman (R.I.P. 1953-2015) for inspiring me to become the musician I am today, Stephanie for always cheering me on, my parents for supporting my musical endeavors, MAGFest for allowing me to meet so many like minded musicians, and my VGM family, especially The Dads. Also Chuck's Dad and The Big Banana. There goes The Big Banana, Big Banana, can't you see!?

• Torgo and The Master

• Masha for being the best person in my life, Jeffrey for being such a sweetheart, my Russian VGM brothers and sisters for all the love, Dan, Kevin and Ryan for bringing the dream to life, friends of Marshall Art for the impossible, Love & Robots for all the patience, Dwelling of Duels for being strong as ever. And Nate. YOU. ARE. ROCK.

• I want to thank God because without my faith I don't know that I would have the heart, or the determination to do what I do. A super special thanks goes to my husband for putting up with me after countless hours of hearing the same thing over and over again for weeks on end. I would also like to thank my family, Jackie, Jeff, and Matthew...those who encouraged me and made my music education possible, and my family of friends who support and challenge me creatively. Finally I would like to thank my team for bringing this arrangement to life. You were the blood of this project and inspired me to do something I had never done before: Jer Roque, Michael Evans, Yulia Nechaeva, Alyssa Menes, and Nathan Horsfall. Thank you for giving me the courage to work with other musicians again!

• The Tiberian Sons and Prime Legion for being the best bands in the world. TheShizz and Grospixels for encouraging me to make music. Gildas and Forest for teaching me all I know about bass. Catherine for enduring my far-too-long practice and recording sessions.

• I want to thank Jer Roque for putting this special thanks together.

• Nate for single-handedly holding my immersion in the video game music community as well as dealing with my horrible time management, my fiancée Carolyn for putting up with my dumb hobbies and encouraging me to keep on making music (and feeding me), all of my friends (just everyone; you know who you are!) for being so supportive and in such constant anticipation of hearing my work, and my family (Ben, mom and dad), also for feeding me. Oh, and for not shattering my dreams ever.

• I'd like to thank God, my parents, grandparents, sisters, bandmates, Chulhan and Song, Descendants of Erdrick, Glenn, Eight Bit Disaster, D&D Sluggers, Mike and Chaney, Dom, Dunlop Gator Grips, and Nate.

• Gato

• I think I'd like to thank the Squaresoft Dream Team: Akira Toriyama, Nobuo Uematsu, Yuji Horii, Kazuhiko Aoki, and Hironobu Sakaguchi, as well as Yasunori Mitsuda, without whom none of this could ever have been possible. On a more personal note I'd like to thank my parents for their support and for buying me this game when I was a kid, and Heidi for always being in my party.

• I'd like to thank my brother if possible. Eric Rutledge. My whole life we've been gaming.

• I want to thank the musicians who helped me to bring the ideas into life. Thanks to Denis Chekolda, Lena Izotova, Andrey Konstantinov, Kirill Gladkov, Ilya Filatov for your patience when rehearsing and recording with me, and for your professionalism. Also thanks for patience to Alexey Baranov who helped with mixing. Thanks to Nate Horsfall and Mikhail Ivanov for dragging me into this massive project, giving me the opportunity to play on the same field with such a great group of VGM-musicians. And introduced me to such beautiful music and the game.

• Thanks to all! I was very glad to participate in this wonderful project and special thanks to Mikhail Ivanov for inviting me smile. :) Best wishes to all!

• Yasunori Mitsuda, for composing my favorite video game music soundtrack of all time. Big Mat, for letting me know that this collaboration was going on a year after it started, when most of the tracks were already claimed. Cory Harbak, Steven Poissant, Sam Griffin, Jeffrey Roberts, Mikhail Ivanov, and Ashley Lynn Watts, for allowing me to contribute to their tracks. It was a blast, and I’ll be more than happy to record for you guys anytime. Andrew Estrada, Chris Macnider, Zach Wolfenbarger, Bobby Shields, & Mike Rutledge of Arc Impulse - It’s always been a blast making music with you guys, and I always look forward to our regularly scheduled Sunday evening rehearsals where we jam and creatively figure out more ways to rock out. My buddies at Dwelling of Duels, for encouraging me to keep making guitar-less music. Nate Horsfall, for many things - letting me in on this project in the first place even though I’d barely done anything solo at the time, being supportive of me to essentially re-doing my track from scratch because I wasn’t happy with the flow after I’d already spent months on i, giving helpful feedback and criticism for this website, allowing me to add ten easter eegs on this website, and being super supportive throughout this entire project. Laravel, Bootstrap, jQuery, and JavaScript - Without them, this website would not be possible. All the awesome visual artists, who, through their artwork, inspired the layout of this web site. Maho Azuma, for being super supportive musically and taking the time to record super awesome flute for my track. Natalie Clyne, for contributing the awesome layered vocals on my track, rerecording a vocal line months later because I changed up the harmony, being supportive of my quirky musical pursuits, putting up with me working on this website pretty much non-stop two weeks before release, but most importantly, being the best partner in life I could have in life.

• Thanks to every single person who helped make this project happen, and for sticking with it until the end. Squaresoft and everyone part of it, for creating this wonderful game which we pay tribute to. Cory johnson for sweeping in like a boss and taking Lavos when it shockingly ended up dropped- and then creating a 20 minute monster. The mastering team: Luiza, Grant, Erik and JMR for kicking ass, and Erik especially for taking it on himself PERSONALLY to make sure Super Soul Bros made the cut. Kurt for coming up with two genius ideas: The crests, and the eras organization. Jer for just owning this website for the last 3 months and toiling away on it without ANY feedback at all, because I was too busy and ignored it until basically 2 days before launch. I mean he even put in easter eggs all over this thing. Who does that? You'll never find them. Steph for saving me life by taking the tagging for loudr and working on it for SIX HOURS, so i didn't have to do it. Love you. Jayson for getting us out to the masses. Thanks for nothing, Safari. And thanks to YOU! For reading this far! Wow, you really are dedicated aren't you?