Richard Rouse III

Developer BIO

During his time in game development Richard Rouse III has served as Lead Designer and Writer on a wide variety of games, including the Macintosh RPG Odyssey: The Legend of Nemesis, the action/strategy hybrid Damage Incorporated, the classic arcade game remake Centipede 3D, and the action/horror title The Suffering. He also contributed to the action/RPG Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, and served as Creative Director on The Suffering: Ties That Bind.

Rouse has written extensively on game design for publications including Game Developer, SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Develop, Gamasutra, and Inside Mac Games. Rouse's popular and sizable book about game design and development titled Game Design: Theory & Practice was released in 2001 and was followed by an expanded second edition in 2004. Rouse is currently a Creative Director at Midway Games.

Websites

• Paranoid Productions/Richard Rouse Home Page -- Developer's home page, includes information about his games and his book, Game Design: Theory & Practice

Games Credited

BlackSite: Area 51 (2007), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
John Woo presents Stranglehold (2007), Midway Games, Inc.
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks (2005), Midway Games, Inc.
The Suffering: Ties That Bind (2005), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
The Suffering (2004), Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
Drakan: The Ancients' Gates (2002), SCEA
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space (2002), Cheapass Games
Centipede (1998), Hasbro Interactive, Inc.
Damage Incorporated (1998), WizardWorks Software