the video game music production company Straylight Productions, contributing tracks to the first-person shooters Unreal and Unreal Tournament. Later, he joined Digital Anvil (now a part of Microsoft Game Studios), and worked as a programmer and musician on Freelancer. In 2006 he founded Diffusion Games, a gaming company which focuses on exploring emotional and social aspects of interactivity. In 2001, Sega founded The Alpha Conspiracy, and released two studio albums, Cipher (2001) and Aura (2004), and a split EP with Low Technicians, Forward Rewinding (2002). He also founded Diffusion Records, an independent record label through which he released The Alpha Conspiracy debut album. Gradually, Diffusion Records became a full-featured label, releasing albums by Iris, CTRL, Low Technicians, and Kilowatts and Vanek. Sega was introduced to Iris in 2001. He started working on several test tracks with Reagan Jones before becoming an official member in 2002. Sega is also a live member of industrial hip hop group Stromkern. As of 2011, he was working on a dark electropop side-project with Julia Beyer (Chandeen, Technoir). In 2012 Sega and Dan Clark from Stromkern teamed up under the name The Mighty Chouffe and released an EP, The West Town. In 2013 he released Obelus, the debut album from his new side-project XYZZY. In 2020, Sega and Alex Virlios (Blue Images, CTRL, Exit) formed Hallowed Hearts and released their debut album Into the Fire. Sega's influences include Underworld, μ-Ziq, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Orbital, Fluke, The Prodigy, Hybrid, Mouse on Mars, Depeche Mode, Rush, Genesis, XTC, Public Enemy, Imogen Heap, and The Chemical Brothers, among others. He described alternative rock, folk, techno, ambient, jazz, and synthpop as his favorite genres, but noted that he tries to avoid the categorization of music. Sega studied computer science and philosophy at Stony Brook University. Throughout the years, he has worked primarily as a full-time software engineer for video games. Video game credits Andrew Sega has composed music for the following video games: 2007 – Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am 2007 – Enigma 2003 – Freelancer 2001 – Conquest: Frontier Wars 1999 – Unreal Tournament 1999 – Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (unreleased) 1998 – Unreal 1997 – Wing Commander: Prophecy 1996 – Crusader: No Regret 1995 – Crusader: No Remorse 1995 – In Pursuit of Greed 1995 – Xixit 1994 – Ironseed Discography Necros 1994 – Digital Psychosis (Psychic Monks, DOS music disk) 1995 – Progression (Five Musicians,