Lena Raine
Raine in 2018
Background information
Also known as	Lena Chappelle Kuraine
Born	(1984-02-29)February 29, 1984 (age 41) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Soundtrack electronic[1]
Occupations	Composer producer game designer
Labels	Radical Dreamland Local Action Materia Collective Ship To Shore PhonoCo.
Website	lena.fyi

Lena Raine (/ˈleɪ.nə/LAY-nə or/ˈlɛ.nə/LEN-ə;^[2] born February 29, 1984), also known asLena Chappelle orKuraine,^[3][1] is an American composer, producer, and video game developer. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks ofMinecraft,Celeste, andGuild Wars 2. She has composed music for various other video games, includingDeltarune andChicory: A Colorful Tale.

Raine was born on February 29, 1984^[4] inSeattle, Washington. Her father is a musician and her mother is a dancer.^[5] She had an early exposure to music due to participation in choir at a young age. Her father was also a violinist.^[6] Through aSonic the Hedgehog fan community she was introduced toMIDI arrangement, first recreating versions of songs she knew and then making original music.^[7] She later attendedCornish College of the Arts for a degree inmusic composition.^[6]

In her early career, Raine worked on titles such asDead State andHackmud, released in 2014 and 2016 respectively.^[8] Raine began working at large studios while located in Seattle, Washington,^[8] doing quality assurance and certification testing at companies such asMicrosoft andNintendo.^[8][9] She did this while releasing her own music before she was eventually hired atArenaNet.^[9] She worked onGuild Wars 2 atArenaNet for six years as a designer and soundtrack composer.^[10] At ArenaNet, she andMaclaine Diemer werein-house composers of the music for the game's 2015 expansion,Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns.^[11] She left ArenaNet in 2016,^[10] but has continued to occasionally compose songs for its various releases as a freelancer.

Raine also posted original work onBandcamp as Kuraine. Impressed by her "fusion of ambient music, techno, and 8-bit sounds",^[8] video game developerMaddy Thorson hired Raine to compose the soundtrack for the gameCeleste, released in 2018.^[8] Later that year, Raine released thetext adventureESC onitch.io. Raine was thedeveloper and composer forESC, with visuals created by Dataerase.^[12][13] In 2019, she released her debut album,Oneknowing.^[8] She would continue to do freelance and self-published work from 2019 onward, with her composition work for larger studios, such as her mastering work onSteven Universe: The Movie soundtrack,^[14] being released during the same time as her personal work on websites likeBandcamp.^[8][9]

She composedmusic forMinecraft, creating four new pieces of music which were included in the 1.16 "Nether Update" in 2020.^[15] A year later, she returned toMinecraft, composing six new tracks for the 1.18 "Caves & Cliffs: Part II" update, alongside fellow video game composerKumi Tanioka.^[16] A year after that, she also composed another three new tracks for the 1.19 "The Wild Update", and then about two years later, she composed five new tracks for 1.21 "Tricky Trials". Raine created the soundtrack for the adventure RPGChicory: A Colorful Tale,^[17] and assisted withthe soundtrack for the second chapter ofDeltarune, both released in 2021.^[18]

On May 28, 2024, Raine announcedAnothereal, a game combining elements ofshoot 'em up androle-playing video games,^[19][20] Raine is credited with being the primary designer of the project, with work having begun in 2021. The game is being developed by Radical Dreamland, Raine's single-person development studio.^[21][22]

Lena Raine is atrans woman.^[23] In 2014, she published a book titledCity of Tigers,^[24] and, since 2015, has begun composing moreLGBT-oriented fiction in her spare time.^[23]

Raine was nominated for aBAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and wonAmerican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Video Game Score of the Year in 2019 forCeleste.^[25][26] Her soundtrack forCeleste was also nominated for Best Score/Music atThe Game Awards 2018.^[27]

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