Andy Firth

Developer BIO

Andy Firth did a 3 year degree on Mathematical Computation at Loughborough University ('95-'98), England, completing a record final year project (95%) and being recognized officially by the Computer Science Dept who requested he return to do a doctorate. He decided that wasn't for him.

He started work in the games industry on June 25th 1998 at a little known developer called Attention to Detail where he spent 4.5 years working on PSX, DC, PS2 and GameCube on titles such as Ducati World, Firebugs and many canceled projects. He left by choice on 20th December 2002.

He moved on to Mucky Foot Productions to lead up their GameCube development in January 2003 working on Bulletproof Monk (canceled) and Punisher (canceled and later picked up by another company). He left Mucky Foot in October of 2003 when sadly the company went under, ATD also went into liquidation that year.

He then moved countries to Neversoft Entertainment (LA, California) in January 2004 to take over GameCube development of the popular Tony Hawk franchise and start preliminary work on Xenon (Xbox 360). He enjoyed developing a new engine for Neversoft during the next 3 years and worked on several iterations of Tony Hawk & also an original IP, GUN. He left Neversoft to move to cheaper/cooler climes in December of '06.

Firth moved to Chicago (very much cooler) and started work for EA Chicago on 18th December 2006 as an SE3.

Sadly EA closed the studio on 7th November 2007.

Andy now works for Day 1 Studios on their engine working towards the release of Fracture & other titles.

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Games Credited

Tony Hawk's Project 8 (2006), Activision Publishing, Inc.
GUN (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Collector's Edition) (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Drome Racers (2003), Electronic Arts, Inc., Lego Media
Firebugs (2002), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd.
Ducati World: Racing Challenge (2001), Acclaim Entertainment Ltd.