American McGee
American James McGee ( born December 13, 1972 in Dallas, Texas) is an American game designer.
Life
After his name questioned, he replied: "My mother smoked hashish. She was a hippie. I'm not sure how I should put it otherwise: " On his website he also writes: ". She claims her familiar from a college woman who named her daughter 'America', inspired her to that name. She also told me that she thought of me ' Obnard '; to call. She's always been a very eccentric and creative person. "
According to information McGee began with eleven or twelve years to care for computers. He left high school early at age 17 and worked until the age of 20 years as a car mechanic. He was eventually discovered by John Carmack and hired software developer at id. There was McGee level designer and part of the team of developers of computer games like Doom and Doom 2, and Quake and Quake 2
After his release at id Software McGee got in 1998 a proposal to the publisher Electronic Arts or its Maxis studio. From this time the contacts to Rogue Entertainment, American McGee's from which eventually emerged Alice, his first own development work submitted. The game is based on the children's story Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, however, the scenario missed a dark and threatening aspect, and was therefore also called twisted fairy tale: means ( German twisted fairy tale ).
After his departure from EA McGee founded the company The Mauretania Import Export Company ( TMIEC ) and worked as Creative Director for Enlight Software and Music Video Director for Radical Media. For Enlight he was executive produced the development studio Mercury Steam Entertainment in American McGee presents Scrapland aside. He then developed with Enlight the title Bad Day LA. , In cooperation with Atari McGee worked on another twisted fairy tale in the world of fairy tales Oz Because of financial problems on the part of Atari's American McGee's Oz, however, was reinstated.
McGee eventually moved to Shanghai, where he founded the development studio Spicy Horse. With his new studio he developed in the tradition of twisted fairy tales for the online distributor Gametap the episode title American McGee's Grimm. In 2011 he worked with Spicy Horse for Electronic Arts for a successor to American McGee's Alice, titled Alice: Madness Returns.
On August 4, 2013 thanks to the Kickstarter.com page McGee's latest work was "Alice: Other Lands", a 3D animated short film series, will be successfully financed. It is expected to be completed until December 2014.
Works
- 2000: American McGee's Alice
- 2004: American McGee presents: Scrapland
- 2006: American McGee presents: Bad Day L.A.
- 2008: American McGee's Grimm
- 2011: Alice: Madness Returns