Mat Dickie (born 1981) is an English indie video game designer, developer and author who releases games under the name MDickie. He is most notable for his indie professional wrestling games, such as Wrestling Revolution for iOS and Android devices, which received over 100,000 downloads two months after launch. The game later went on to surpass 10 million downloads and its sequel, Wrestling Revolution 3D, went on to compete with WWE 2K games on the mobile market.
Many of Dickie's games are infamous for their awkward controls and poor graphics. However, the indie and low budget nature of his games have often contributed to their popularity, leading to Dickie describing himself as being "single-handedly responsible for the worst games to ever be enjoyed by millions of people."
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Early life
Mat Dickie was born in Brigg, North Lincolnshire in 1981. His parents worked on a small newsstand, where he stayed while they worked, and boredom drove him to express his creativity by producing makeshift toys for himself with the materials available at the place. He attended Brigg Primary School. He became interested in developing games at an early age, often sketching out ideas for games.
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Career
Dickie released his first game, Hardy Boyz Stunt Challenge, in August 2000. The game had the player play as one of the Hardy Boyz, who were wrestlers in the WWF, (later renamed the WWE). The game took two weeks to complete and was posted on a wrestling website where it received 15,000 downloads and positive feedback, which inspired him to continue making video games. He moved to Manchester in 2001 to complete a Bachelor of Science in video games and computers at Salford University.
In 2007, Dickie created his first major non-wrestling game, Hard Time, a prison simulator which was named by Games for Windows Magazine as the "Indie Game of the Month".
Dickie retired from developing video games in early 2009 after the release of The You Testament, a game based on biblical stories he developed in three months, with PC Gamer calling it the "best worst game ever." Retiring from game development, he became a developer of educational apps, publishing educational resources on TES. He also became an author, writing a book on his game development career and writing others on religion and spirituality as a religious educator.
In late 2011, Dickie came out of retirement and moved to developing mobile games, releasing Wrestling Revolution as his first major mobile game. He also released several 2D remakes of his classic PC games on mobile, such as Popscene in 2014, Wrecked, and Hard Time 2D In 2017. His most successful game to date, Wrestling Revolution 3D, reached 50 million downloads, becoming the first sports game on Google Play to do so.
Works
Video games
PC
- Hardy Boyz Stunt Challenge (2000)
- Sure Shot (2002)
- Championship Boxing (2002)
- Federation Wrestling (2002)
- Wrestling MPire 2004 (2004)
- Booking MPire 2004 (2004)
- Popscene (2006)
- Grassroots (2006)
- Hard Time (2007)
- Wrestling MPire Remix 2008 (2008)
- The You Testament (2008)
- Under Development (2011)
Mobile
- CM Punk's Promo Cutter (2011)
- Moksha (2011)
- Sure Shot (2011)
- Flash Stuntz (2012)
- Wrestling Revolution (2012)
- Booking Revolution (2013)
- Hard Time (2013)
- Popscene (2014)
- Wrestling Revolution 3D (2014)
- School Days (2015)
- Weekend Warriors MMA (2015)
- Super City (2016)
- Wrecked 2D (2017)
- Extra Lives (2017)
Books
- Inspiration for the Interactive Generation (2009, ISBN 1441414983)
- Sportuality (2009, ISBN 0956160913)
- A-fear-ism: The Ignorance Of Atheism (2010, ISBN 1449978347)
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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