Derek M

Designer

Bio

Treat me to dinner and I'll tell you about myself. No fast food, I don't come cheap! :)

Length of time I have been employed in the industry

3 years

Game companies I have worked for

N-Fusion Interactive Inc.
America's Army through Guildhall Contract
Ed Magnin & Associates
Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
EB Games (GameStop) Ha!

Titles I have worked on

Hour of Victory (XBOX360)
Vegas Casino (Nintendo DS)
America's Army (Map Pack) (UT 2K4 2.8 / PC)
Shantytown (Mod) (Source / PC)
Sandstorm (Mod) (Radiant (CoD) / PC)
Mythos (Mod) (UT 2K4 / PC)

Advice

Resources I would recommend for those interested in getting into game development (books, tutorials, sites, etc)

Game Level Design (Game Development Series)
Mastering Unreal Technology: The Art of Level Design
http://www.modsonline.com
http://www.doom3world.org
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs
Beginning C ++ Through Game Programming, Second Edition (Paperback)
C++ For Game Programmers (Game Development Series) (Paperback)

Favorites

First game I remember playing

Hide and go seek

All-time favorite game

Catch a girl kiss a girl

Non-video gaming hobbies

Mountain Biking
Road biking with my mountain bike on slicks ;)
Roller Bladding
Running
Working out
Motor bike riding ;) I will drop the hammer!
B-ball yeah I will take you to the hoop and one!
Swing out (Like Chicago Steppin') here in Dallas
Travel (ask me where I've been and where I want to go)
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Favorite bands/music

Any thing good: R&B, Jazz, Hip-Hip, Rock, Alternative, 80's, 90's....

Favorite books/authors

Turning up the Heat / G. Garvin

Favorite TV shows

CSI
Family guy
South Park
Law and Order (all of them)
Damages
City Confidential
Forensic Files
Monk
Cowboy Bebop
Roots the mini-series
Dirty jobs
The Muppet Show
Mannix
Welcome back Carter
What's Happenings
Super Friends
Tom and Jerry
Little Rascals
Our gang
Speed Racer
G-Force
Transformers (80's version)
Danger Mouse
Fraggle Rock
Thundar the Barbarian
Mighty Mouse
Bugs bunny
Woody Woodpecker
Richie Rich
Scooby Doo
Space Ghost
The Herculoids
Star Blazers
ThunderCats
A-Team
Knight Rider
Magnum P.I.
The Love Boat
Charlie's Angels
Reruns
...

Favorite movies

Boomerang
Friday
Love Jones
The Best Man
Coming to America
The last Dragon
Brown Sugar
All Sinbad movies (60s-70s)
5 deadly venoms
Aliens - Alien - Alien 3
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick
3 O'Clock High
Running Scared
The Matrix
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan "Khan!!!"
Dune
Enter the Dragon
The One
Kiss of the Dragon
Krush Groove
Beat Street
Breakin'
Emmet Otter's Jug band Christmas
James Bond (most of them)
Cooley high
Car Wash
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Flying Castle
Watership Down
Star Wars sextuplet (Empire Stikes Back and Ep. 2-3 were the best)
Hollywood Shuffle
The Wood
The Brothers
Better off Dead
One Crazy Summer
Real Genius
Weird Science

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Favorite quote

"I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done will or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done."

-- W.E.B. (WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT ) Du Bois