Michael Dailly is a Scottish

video game designer Video game design is the process of designing the content and rules of video games in the pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the production stage. Some common video game design subdiscipline ...

, best known for designing ''

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'' and the original prototype of ''

Grand Theft Auto ''Grand Theft Auto'' (''GTA'') is a series of action-adventure games created by David Jones and Mike Dailly. Later titles were developed under the oversight of brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut. It is primarily de ...

'', and being one of the four founders of

DMA Design Rockstar North Limited (formerly DMA Design Limited) is a British video game development company and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Edinburgh. The company was founded as DMA Design in Dundee in 1987 by David Jones, soon hiring former clas ...

(now Rockstar North), alongside David Jones, Russell Kay, and Steve Hammond. Between 2010 and 2018, Dailly was working with

YoYo Games YoYo Games is a British software development company based in Dundee, Scotland. From February 2015 to January 2021, the company was owned by Playtech, it was then sold to Opera Software to launch its new gaming division. History YoYo Games wa ...

as the lead developer of the GameMaker: Studio

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