In Real Life

Halo Composer Wrote Jingles For Flintstones Vitamins, Tidy Cats

A profile by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, calling Marty O’Donnell the John Williams of the Halo series, turns up this tidbit: He wrote the Flintstones Vitamins jingle (which you now have stuck in your head) and his kids sang the chorus.


January 12, 2009
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Bungie’s Marty O’Donnell Doesn’t Like You Messing With His Knobs

Kotaku AU

In a huge and ongoing multi-part interview on Aussie blogger Ben Abraham’s Super Legacy Reading Club, Bungie’s Marty O’Donnell has been giving some fascinating insights into the art of audio design. “What I didn’t like was people, especially game players, have gotten into a habit that they should have control over all these things and basically I’m saying, you know what, no – you shouldn’t,” says O’Donnell, when asked why players can’t tweak Halo’s audio mix.