Biography Vertexguy

chris kline performing contra: jungle jam @ video games live, game developers conference 2007.

towards final year of college, kline realized need create website online portfolio. wanted address memorable , make sense type of work did. since 3d art made of vertices @ core level, , spends time manipulating every day, kline thought catchy call himself vertexguy . kline lumps 2 words match website address (www.vertexguy.com), can found referenced vertex guy , vertex guy , vertex or vert . prefers treating title 1 word because unique enough make him instantly easy find in search engine.

after graduating college in 2002, kline moved prescott, arizona girlfriend, trina noelle cowin, become wife. during time, kline worked on art portfolio , began applying game studios across united states. knowing needed job married, kline jumped on first major opportunity came way. came in form of job offer farsight studios.

during time @ farsight studios, kline adapted , assumed natural leadership role, taking on great deal of responsibility. in addition creating artwork games studio worked on, became studio s audio director. created sound effects studio s game line , wrote few music scores.

in 2005, kline joined www.musicianwar.com , began posting original compositions in friendly music competition. site features categories compete in , 1 caught kline’s attention video game themes . though did not seem popular category, kline began posting guitar renditions of various classic video game themes. shortly after, decided take 1 of game themes covered (john petrucci’s necronomicon: epiloque) , post on youtube. not long after, followed remake of original level 1 music nes title, contra. release proved huge hit , spawned lots of media attention various gaming sites. since then, has been interviewed , discussed on several major gaming sites, including kotaku , destructoid.

on june 28, 2006, kline s rendition of duke nukem theme, titled duke nukem jam , presented on 3d realms front page (www.3drealms.com). helped expose kline new listeners, became die hard fans of work. since then, video on youtube has had more million views, in addition millions of total views spanning across videos. chris later contracted 3d realms , apogee use of duke nukem jam in promotional trailer videos created duke nukem 3d on xbox live , duke nukem trilogy trailer psp.

tommy tallarico introducing chris kline @ video games live, game developers conference 2007.

after contra made popular debut across web, fellow myspace user named stretch contacted kline , suggested contact tommy tallarico , jack wall video games live see if might interested in doing together. kline took him on advice , after invited perform video games live @ game developers conference in 2007. performed @ game audio network guild (g.a.n.g.) awards show during conference. since then, kline has performed video games live @ e4all expo in 2007, , in loveland, co in 2009.