Speakers
American McGee
Senior Creative Director and Founder , Spicy Horse Games
Speaking at Animex Game
American is an American game designer, currently the Senior Creative Director and Founder of Spicy Horse Games. He began his career at id Software as level designer for such games as Doom II, Quake, and Quake II. In 1998, he moved to Electronic Arts, as a Creative Director on many projects including the creation of American McGee’s Alice.
In 2000 he left EA to work as an independent game creator. American has been in China since 2004, and currently lives in Shanghai where he helped establish video game outsourcing venture Vykarian. In 2006 he announced the formation of a new game development studio Spicy Horse. The studio's first project was American McGee's Grimm, a unique episodic game produced for GameTap.
These days American's focus is on growing Spicy Horse into a world-class development studio. He's developing concepts for Western and Chinese markets across a range of genres and platforms. His work passions include fostering studio culture, driving strong development process, and heading up creative collaboration with his teammates. When not at work he enjoys exploring Shanghai and China, tinkering with electric scooters, learning Chinese, learning cello, and cooking spicy food.
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.'
www.americanmcgee.com
