American James McGee (born December 13, 1972) is an American game designer. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer
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Career
McGee began his career at id Software. id Software (ɪd officially is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. He worked on such games as DOOM, Doom II, Quake, and Quake II in level design, music production, developed sound effects, and wrote code. Doom (officially cased DOOM) is a 1993 Computer game by Id Software that is a landmark title in the First-person shooter Doom II Hell on Earth is a First-person shooter Video game created by Id Software. Quake is a First-person shooter Computer game that was released by Id Software on June 22, 1996. Quake II, released on December 9 1997, is a First person shooter computer game developed by Id Software and distributed In 1998, he moved to Electronic Arts, where he worked as a consultant on many projects and also created his own game, American McGee's Alice. American McGee's Alice is a third-person action PC video game released on October 6, 2000, which takes place in the Alice's Adventures in After finishing Alice, he left Electronic Arts and founded his own company, The Mauretania Import Export Company, of which he is the president. The Mauretania Import Export Company is a Video game, Film, and Television production company founded by former Id Software employee American
McGee produced the game Scrapland with Enlight in 2004, and later released Bad Day L.A. in 2006 with the same partners. American McGee presents Scrapland is a game developed by Mercury Steam Entertainment, with American McGee as a producer and published by Enlight Enlight is a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment American McGee presents Bad Day LA is a 2006 Video game by American McGee. American McGee's Oz has been cancelled while other projects are in development. American McGee's Grimm is currently being developed by his design house, Spicy Horse, for the online service GameTap. American McGee's Grimm is a 24-part episodic game series based upon Grimm's Fairy Tales, developed by Spicy Horse and distributed online initially Spicy Horse (Chinese 麻辣馬 pinyin Ma La Ma is a China-based independent Video game developer started by American McGee in 2007 GameTap is an American online Video game service by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS
Films
Production of the Oz game has been put on hold, which McGee attributes to a lack of interest at game publishing houses in new ideas and products without established market names. Oz is a fairy In order to get a publisher, McGee has decided to sell the game as a film before actually finishing it. He was recently set to write the script for the Oz films, which is said to be a trilogy, that would be produced by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) better known by his professional name Jerry Bruckheimer, is an American film McGee spearheaded an attempt to launch a film adaptation of his Alice game, but the project collapsed and fell into obscurity for several years. It was finally picked up by Universal Pictures and is set to be released as Alice in July 2008. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American American McGee's Alice is a third-person action PC video game released on October 6, 2000, which takes place in the Alice's Adventures in While McGee has had no control of Alice and only limited control of Oz, he is expected to exercise more control over Grimm.
Personal life
His stated mission is "to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries" and of himself, he says, "I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter "
Upon inquiry about his unusual name: "My mom was a hippie. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world I'm not sure how else to put that. . . She claims a woman she knew in college, who named her daughter 'America', inspired the name. She also tells me that she was thinking of naming me 'Obnard'. She was and always has been a very eccentric and creative person. " He has also stated that there is only one other person in the world named "American" and "he was named after me. "
Currently, American resides in Shanghai in the People's Republic of China where he works with Spicy Horse and Vykarian, a game outsourcing company, on Grimm. Shanghai ( 上[[wikt 海|海]] is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world with over 20 million Talk People's Republic of China) PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA ARTICLE GUIDELINES
Works
- American McGee's Alice (2000)
- American McGee presents: Scrapland (2004)
- American McGee presents: Bad Day L.A. (2006)
- American McGee's Grimm (2008)
See also
External links
- Official website
- The Mauretania Import Export Company
- Spicy Horse Design House
- Vykarian
- Moby Games' entry on McGee
- An Interview with American McGee
- Interview with American McGee in Spanish
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