Duncan Lewis Botwood (born 8 March 1972,

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) is a British

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and

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. He worked for British game developer Rare from

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to 2008. He was senior designer at the company. Botwood's first work was '' GoldenEye 007''. He was one of the first members of the team and worked closely with Martin Hollis and

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. Botwood constructed the levels and did most

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with head model designer, Beatrix. He next worked on

Perfect Dark ''Perfect Dark'' is a 2000 first-person shooter developed and published by Rare for the Nintendo 64. The first game of the '' Perfect Dark'' series, it follows Joanna Dark, an agent of the Carrington Institute research centre, as she attempts ...

as level designer, wrote the story of the game and designed the way weapons would work. He later worked on ''

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'', designing the multiplayer. Botwood provided

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to some of the projects on which he worked, voicing

Andross ''Star Fox'' is a series of spaceship shooter games published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Fox McCloud, the leader of Star Fox, a team of anthropomorphic animals in video games, animals in the Lylat plan ...

in '' Star Fox Adventures'' and Mr Blonde in ''

''. He had a cameo in ''GoldenEye 007'' as the Naval Officer. Botwood left Rare in 2008 and worked for

Ubisoft Montpellier Ubisoft Montpellier is a French video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Castelnau-le-Lez. Founded in 1994 as Ubi Pictures, it is best known for developing the ''Rayman'' and ''Beyond Good & Evil (video game), Beyond Good & Evil'' s ...

. He then worked at

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before joining

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in 2012 as a Lead Level Designer. In 2016 he was promoted to Associate Level Design Director in '' Watch Dogs: Legion''.Botwood profile
LinkedIn.com; accessed May 28, 2015.

References

External links

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Interview with Duncan Botwood about Perfect Dark and GoldenEye 007
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