Stephen Rippy, born Stephen A. Rippy in 1975 in Spring, Texas, United States, is an American video game music composer. Raised in Harris County, Texas, he attended the University of Texas in the early 1990s to study visual art. He served as head of the Audio department at Ensemble Studios alongside Kevin McMullan, composing game scores for the Age of Empires strategy series, Age of Mythology, and the Xbox 360 game Halo Wars. Following the closure of Ensemble Studios, he joined Bonfire Studios (later Zynga Dallas), an independent studio co-founded by his brother David Rippy. His soundtrack work includes the game scores for Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, Age of Mythology, Age of Empires III, and Halo Wars.
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