Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka (田中 宏和, Tanaka Hirokazu^?, born December 13, 1957) is a Japanese composer and musician, best known for his scores for various video games produced by Nintendo. He is also the current President of Creatures, Inc.

Mike Morasky is an American composer, director, animator, visual effects artist and programmer working at Valve Corporation. He is best known for composing the music for Portal, Team Fortress 2, the Left 4 Dead series and Portal 2.

For Valve, Morasky composed the music for Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2 (including composing and playing the guitar, keyboard and bass for the fictional hard rock band "Midnight Riders"), Portal 2 and half of the music for the original Portal.

He also worked as a visual effects supervisor on The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix film trilogies.

Morasky was part of the now defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band "Steel Pole Bath Tub", which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum. S.P.B.T. disbanded in 2002.

On Valve's official website, his function his described as follows: "Morasky's life and career looks a lot like one of the post-modern audio collages he is so fond of creating. Guitar player in a full-time bar band in Montana as a teen, award winning experimental composer in Tokyo, audio hardware programmer in Silicon Valley, underground art rocker touring the world, 3d animator and director for television, electronic audio collage artist in France and Japan, visual fx artist on the Lord of the Rings and Matrix Trilogies, AI animation instructor at an art college and currently he is applying some combination of all these things to games at Valve."

Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, Uematsu Nobuo^?) (born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series. He is considered as one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community. Uematsu, a self-taught musician, began playing the piano at the age of eleven or twelve, with Elton John as his biggest influence.

Uematsu joined Square (later Square Enix) in 1986, where he met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. They have worked together on many video game titles, most notably the games in the Final Fantasy series. After nearly 20 years in the company, he left Square Enix in 2004 to found his own company called Smile Please, and the music production company Dog Ear Records. He has since composed music as a freelancer for video games primarily developed by Square Enix and Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker.

Soundtracks and arranged albums of Uematsu's game scores have been released. Pieces from his video game works have been performed in Final Fantasy concerts. He has worked with Grammy Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth on several of these concerts. From 2002 to 2010, he was in a rock band with colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito called The Black Mages, in which he played Electronic organ and other keyboards. The band played arranged rock versions of Uematsu's Final Fantasy compositions. He has since performed with the band Earthbound Papas.

Hidenori Iwasaki (岩崎英則, Iwasaki Hidenori^?, born April 6, 1975) is a Japanese synthesizer programmer and video game composer currently working at Square Enix. He studied at the Tokyo International University before joining Square (now Square Enix) in 1998.　He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer. His first work as a solo composer is Front Mission 4. He was also part of the band The Star Onions.

Donna Burke, a singer, narrator, and entrepreneur, was born in Perth, Australia, and moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1996. She lives with her guitarist and husband Bill Benfield and her three cats.

Formerly a high school English teacher in Perth, she gave up that pursuit and went on the path of singing and voice acting. Burke has had over 10 years of classical voice lessons, and does jazz, classical, techno, folk, and rock concerts. Because of this, she has been described in reviews as "one of the world's most versatile singers". Her last album entitled "Blue Nights" came out in 2005 and featured many of her original songs like "Don't I look Pretty" and "Quiet Night".

Burke has 3 solo albums, a celtic compilation and a maxi single, and can be heard on many anime and video game soundtracks, including Turn-A Gundam, Haibane Renmei, Vandread, Tokimeki Memorial, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy, and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. She has acted in several video games, such as Out run 2, the Shenmue, and the Silent Hill series, and has been credited in several OVA's such as Strange Dawn, Hoshi no Koe and Trip Trek and the anime series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's. Donna is the voice of Hel in Boktai, Ursula in Lunar Knights, and Norah in the Sega game "Let's go Jungle". Additionally, she has been credited as a lyricist for numerous Japanese TV commercials, anime, and J-POP groups.