Since returning to Sports Interactive, I have been working on a number of unannounced projects involving Windows, Macintosh and next generation console hardware, and working with a variety of technologies.
I’ve been being paid to program since 1988, and in that time I’ve been about a bit! Here are some of the weird and wonderful places I’ve worked.
At Sony I work on tools for a team making another Football game, this time an action game for the soon-to-be-released PS3.
Sports Interactive used to make the insanely popular game Championship Manager. Actually, they still make it, only now it’s called Football Manager, and isn’t to be confused with the game called Championship Manager which is now made by Beatiful Game Studios, and published by Eidos, who used to publish the Championship Manager that SI made, but don’t any more.
Still with me?
I was first introduced to SI when I ported their Championship Manager 3 99/00 game to the Mac. After that I went away to do other things, but ended up coming back to work for them on CM4, CM 4 03/04, and then FM, during which time I was part of the team that totally revamped the user interface and made it look slightly less like a spreadsheet.
I worked for quite a while at Abbey Road’s interactive department. Weird place… kind of cool in one way, but also slightly stuck in a time warp.
Had it’s advantages though. The parties in Studio 2 were cool, and where else can you look up from your food at lunch only to realise that the folks on the next table are Jimmy Page and Robert Plant… I nearly choked on my soup…
Peter Gabriel’s record label, recording studio, multimedia company, etc. Another weird place, but a lot more chilled out than Abbey Road - probably because it’s in the middle of the Wiltshire countyside. Plenty of creative tension and inflated egos of course, but some great stuff has come out of there too, and I for one am a big PG fan so I loved every minute of it.
I spent quite a while at Real World, working on some cool interactive music technology, which has now seen the light of day as Noodle.
… music computers food computers football music books computers music food computers books food music computers …
off the top of my head, some examples: Tool, Porcupine Tree, Jah Wobble, Julian Cope, Iain Banks, Brian Eno, Anthony Burgess, Death In Vegas, CJ Cherryh, Underworld, Death In Vegas, Marilyn Manson, Bass Players Everywhere, Frank Zappa, MC 900ft Jesus, Nick Cave, Queens Park Rangers, Joseph Arthur, Malcolm Middleton
hmm, looks like I’ve got all sorts of weird stuff on the top of my head…
I’m into most computery stuff, but particularly authoring tools, cool languages, artificial life. I’ve got programming experience in all sorts of weird languages, but the one I like best is Dylan.
