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Name: American McGee  
   
Also Know As:
   
Date of Birth: 13th December 1972
   
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
American McGee:  Selected on November 2002 by PC Gamer as one of the future "Game Gods." Listed in the Rolling Stone "Hot" list - "Hot Game Designer" #40 in the Gear Magazine "100 Most Exciting People, Places, Things" issue. Featured in July 2003 issue GQ article.

American McGee is an American game designer.

McGee began his career at id Software. He was a level designer and part of the programming staff for such games as Doom, Doom II, Quake, and Quake II. In 1998, he moved to Electronic Arts, where he worked as a consultant on many projects and also created his own game, American McGee's Alice. After finishing Alice, he left Electronic Arts and founded his own company, The Mauretania Import Export Company, which he is president of.

McGee later produced the game Scrapland and projects in the works include American McGee's Oz and American McGee's Grimm. His latest production is Bad Day LA . Production of the Oz game has been put on hold, which McGee attributes to a lack of interest at game publishing houses in new ideas and products without established market names. In order to get a publisher, McGee has decided to sell the game as a film before actually finishing it. He was recently set to write the script for the Oz films, which is said to be a trilogy that will be produced by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer. Oz is only in the development stage and no official announcements have been made regarding the films. The same applies to the Alice film (see: Dark Wonderland). While McGee has had no control of Alice and only limited control of Oz, he expects to exercise more control over Grimm, which is still in the conceptual stages of development.

His stated mission is "to create a unified production method for story telling across the interactive and film industries" and of himself, he says, "I want to be the next Walt Disney, only a little more wicked."

Once, when asked where he got his unusual name, he answered, "My mom smoked pot. She was a hippie. I'm not sure how else to put that." On his website, American had this to say of the matter: "She claims a woman she knew in college, who named her daughter 'America', inspired the name. She also tells me that she was thinking of naming me 'Obnard'. She was and always has been a very eccentric and creative person."

See Also

  • the upcoming film adaption of the 'American McGee's Alice' computer game in which American is one of the producers.

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