Sam Lake - Revision history

Matt at 09:12, 22 April 2025

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Matt at 23:01, 19 March 2025

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	\| occupation = Creative Director @<br/>[[Remedy Entertainment]]		\| occupation = Creative Director @<br/>[[Remedy Entertainment]]
	\| years_active = 1996 - Present		\| years_active = 1996 - Present
	\| known_for = [[Max Payne]],<br/>[[Alan Wake]]<br/>[[Quantum Break]]<br/>[[Control]]		\| known_for = [[Max Payne]],<br/>[[Alan Wake (game)\|Alan Wake]]<br/>[[Quantum Break]]<br/>[[Control]]
	\| notable_works =		\| notable_works =
	}}		}}
	'''Sami Antero Järvi''', better known internationally as '''Sam Lake''' ('Järvi' is Finnish for lake), is a Finnish video game writer. He is the creative director at [[Remedy Entertainment]], known for his writing (as well as his likeness) on the popular [[Max Payne]] video game series (in which a photo of his face was used as Max Payne's face), and [[Alan Wake]].		'''Sami Antero Järvi''', better known internationally as '''Sam Lake''' ('Järvi' is Finnish for lake), is a Finnish video game writer. He is the creative director at [[Remedy Entertainment]], known for his writing (as well as his likeness) on the popular [[Max Payne]] video game series (in which a photo of his face was used as Max Payne's face), and [[Alan Wake (game)\|Alan Wake]].

	Järvi was heavily woven into the founding of [[Poets of the Fall]]. In early 2003, while working as a script-writer for Remedy, he handed his friend [[Marko Saaresto]] a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game [[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne\|Max Payne 2]]. The song, entitled [[Late Goodbye]], was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. Saaresto and fellow former [[FUSS]] bandmember [[Olli Tukiainen]] recorded the original performance. It was produced by Remedy sound engineer [[Markus Kaarlonen]], who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.		Järvi was heavily woven into the founding of [[Poets of the Fall]]. In early 2003, while working as a script-writer for Remedy, he handed his friend [[Marko Saaresto]] a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game [[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne\|Max Payne 2]]. The song, entitled [[Late Goodbye]], was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. Saaresto and fellow former [[FUSS]] bandmember [[Olli Tukiainen]] recorded the original performance. It was produced by Remedy sound engineer [[Markus Kaarlonen]], who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.

	Since then, Poets of the Fall have been brought onboard for several other Remedy Entertainment projects - [[Alan Wake]], [[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]], [[Control]] and [[Alan Wake II]].		Since then, Poets of the Fall have been brought onboard for several other Remedy Entertainment projects - [[Alan Wake (game)\|Alan Wake]], [[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]], [[Control]] and [[Alan Wake II]].

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Matt at 23:16, 17 March 2025

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Matt at 23:15, 17 March 2025

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	Järvi was heavily woven into the founding of [[Poets of the Fall]]. In early 2003, while working as a script-writer for Remedy, he handed his friend [[Marko Saaresto]] a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game [[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne\|Max Payne 2]]. The song, entitled [[Late Goodbye]], was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. Saaresto and fellow former [[FUSS]] bandmember [[Olli Tukiainen]] recorded the original performance. It was produced by Remedy sound engineer [[Markus Kaarlonen]], who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.		Järvi was heavily woven into the founding of [[Poets of the Fall]]. In early 2003, while working as a script-writer for Remedy, he handed his friend [[Marko Saaresto]] a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game [[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne\|Max Payne 2]]. The song, entitled [[Late Goodbye]], was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. Saaresto and fellow former [[FUSS]] bandmember [[Olli Tukiainen]] recorded the original performance. It was produced by Remedy sound engineer [[Markus Kaarlonen]], who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.

	Since then, Poets of the Fall have been brought onboard for several other Remedy Entertainment projects - [[Alan Wake]], [[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]], [[Control]] ~~(including a promotional video featuring Järvi and Saaresto)~~ and [[Alan Wake II]].		Since then, Poets of the Fall have been brought onboard for several other Remedy Entertainment projects - [[Alan Wake]], [[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]], [[Control]] and [[Alan Wake II]].

	== Works ==		== Works ==

Matt at 23:15, 17 March 2025

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	\| known_for = [[Max Payne]],<br/>[[Alan Wake]]<br/>[[Control]]		\| known_for = [[Max Payne]],<br/>[[Alan Wake]]<br/>[[Quantum Break]]<br/>[[Control]]
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Matt at 23:13, 17 March 2025

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	== Trivia ==		== Trivia ==
	*Sam Lake had a cameo role in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding as "The Veteran Porter". Kojima similarly had a cameo role in Lake's [[Control]] as Dr Yoshimi Tokui.		*Sam Lake had a cameo role in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding as "The Veteran Porter". Kojima similarly had a cameo role in Lake's [[Control]] as Dr Yoshimi Tokui.
			*In [[Max Payne]], Sam and Marko play numerous live-action roles against one another on in-game televisions. At one point, Sam fights Marko to the death in a sword duel.

	==Source==		==Source==

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| occupation = Creative Director @<br/>[[Remedy Entertainment]]
| years_active = 1996 - Present
| known_for = [[Max Payne]],<br/>[[Alan Wake]]<br/>[[Control]]
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'''Sami Antero Järvi''', better known internationally as '''Sam Lake''' ('Järvi' is Finnish for lake), is a Finnish video game writer. He is the creative director at [[Remedy Entertainment]], known for his writing (as well as his likeness) on the popular [[Max Payne]] video game series (in which a photo of his face was used as Max Payne's face), and [[Alan Wake]].

Järvi was heavily woven into the founding of [[Poets of the Fall]]. In early 2003, while working as a script-writer for Remedy, he handed his friend [[Marko Saaresto]] a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's upcoming video game [[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne|Max Payne 2]]. The song, entitled [[Late Goodbye]], was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. Saaresto and fellow former [[FUSS]] bandmember [[Olli Tukiainen]] recorded the original performance. It was produced by Remedy sound engineer [[Markus Kaarlonen]], who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work.

Since then, Poets of the Fall have been brought onboard for several other Remedy Entertainment projects - [[Alan Wake]], [[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]], [[Control]] (including a promotional video featuring Järvi and Saaresto) and [[Alan Wake II]].

== Works ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Release
! Role
|-
|1996
|[[Death Rally (2012)|Death Rally]]
|Writing
|-
|2001
|[[Max Payne]]
|Story and screenplay, graphic novel model
|-
|2003
|[[Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne]]
|Writer
|-
|2010
|[[Alan Wake]]
|Concept design, story and screenplay
|-
|2012
|[[Alan Wake's American Nightmare]]
|Creative director and writer
|-
|2016
|[[Quantum Break]]
|Creative director and executive producer
|-
|2019
|[[Control]]
|Concept and writer
|-
|2023
|[[Alan Wake II]]
|Creative director, writer, Alex Casey's model
|}

== Trivia ==
*Sam Lake had a cameo role in Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding as "The Veteran Porter". Kojima similarly had a cameo role in Lake's [[Control]] as Dr Yoshimi Tokui.

==Source==
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lake

==References==
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