Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Design Blog 1, Biography

Cliff Bleszinski, better known as Dude Huge, is the creative designer of the video games Unreal Tournament and the Gears of War series. 






He might not be a world famous designer, but to all video game enthusiasts around the world he is a huge inspiration.

I chose Cliff Bleszinski because he's living the dream.  He gets to be head of projects that most people can only dream about and he makes millions of dollars doing it.  His most recent work is 2008's Gears of War 2,  which many people consider the greatest use of the Unread Engine which many many games are built upon.  Graphically his games are well above the spectrum, and often times they set the bar for what we would consider the best looking game.

Game play is a huge part of what makes a video game considered well designed and with Gears of War he reinvented the classic shooter by introducing an seamless way to take cover on objects.  The addiction of a chainsaw onto the main gun also changed the way gamers looked at melee weapons.

All in all Cliff Bleszinski is an excellent designer and we can only expect his work to get better and better as time goes on.