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Gregg Mayles
Gregg Mayles (born 29 April) is a British video game designer currently working for video game company Rare as creative director. He is one of the longest-serving members of the company, having worked there since 1989. Career Mayles began his career as a designer of the ''Battletoads'' series and the ''Donkey Kong Country'' series and was one of the creators of the characters Diddy Kong and King K. Rool. After his work on ''DKC'', he came up with an idea about an action-adventure game influenced by his recent work on the series. The project was greenlit for release first on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and then on the Nintendo 64. Codenamed ''Project Dream'', the game was to be about a boy who went up on a magical adventure to a pirate island. The concept was scrapped, and the hero was changed to bear based on one from ''Diddy Kong Racing'' with a backpack, with the latter winnowed by Mayles's trip to Japan. There went the critically acclaimed ''Banjo-Kazooie'' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Game Design
Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of video games in the Video game development#Pre-production, pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the Video game development#Production, production stage. Some common video game design subdisciplines are world design, level design, system design, content design, and user interface design. Within the video game industry, video game design is usually just referred to as "game design", which is a more general term elsewhere. The video game designer is very much like the director of a film; the designer is the visionary of the game and controls the artistic and technical elements of the game in fulfillment of their vision. However, with very complex games, such as Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPGs or a big budget action or sports title, designers may number in the dozens. In these cases, there are generally one or two principal designers and man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
