Mike Singleton
Moby ID: 17924
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Mike Singleton (1951 â October 10, 2012) was a British author and game developer. He started inventing games as a youngster. While working as an English teacher on Merseyside he produced a computer game called Star Lord (Commodore PET/CBM) and went on to write various well-regarded titles for the ZX Spectrum during the 1980s. He died in Switzerland on Wednesday 10th October, 2012. He had been suffering from cancer.
Mike's first game was Computer Race. It was placed in a betting shop, where customers could bet money and then view a randomized race play out on a Commodore PET and earn real money rewards. Singleton is best known for creating the two games in the Midnight series, Lords of Midnight and Doomdark's Revenge, which featured thousands of locations and over 100 playable characters which made them some of the largest games of their era. A third game was planned to complete the trilogy, Eye of the Moon, but this was never released.
Credited on 34 games
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| GRID (2008, Xbox 360) | Programmers |
| Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows (2005, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
| Wrath Unleashed (2004, PlayStation 2) | Lead Programmers |
| Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb (2003, PlayStation 2) | Technology |
| HSX: HyperSonic.Xtreme (2002, PlayStation 2) | Programming |
| World Championship Snooker (2000, PlayStation) | 3D Engine |
| Ring Cycle (1996, DOS) | Director |
| Lords of Midnight (1995, DOS) | Programming |
| Red Ghost (1995, DOS) | Programming |
| Starlord (1994, DOS) | Design |
| Ashes of Empire (1993, DOS) | A game by |
| David Leadbetter's Greens (1991, Amiga) | with additional technical ideas from |
| Flames of Freedom (1991, DOS) | Directed by |
| Midwinter (1990, DOS) | Original Concept |
| Grimblood (1990, Amiga) | Game Design |
| J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth (1989, Amiga) | Game Concept |
| J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth (1989, Commodore 64) | Game Design |
| SpaceCutter (1988, Amiga) | Programming |
| Star Trek: The Rebel Universe (1988, Commodore 64) | Produced by |
| Dark Sceptre (1987, ZX Spectrum) | Dark Sceptre by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with George Williamson
- 9 games with David Gautrey
- 8 games with Andrew Elkerton
- 8 games with Hugh F. Batterbury
- 8 games with David Ollman
- 6 games with Valhermoso Franco
- 5 games with Stuart Flint
- 4 games with Paul Robotham
- 4 games with Peter Barnett
- 4 games with Harvey Stroud
Companies
- 9 games with Maelstrom Games Ltd
- 4 games with Postern Ltd.
- 4 games with MicroProse Software, Inc.
- 3 games with Firebird Software
- 3 games with Krome Studios Melbourne
- 3 games with Rainbird Software
- 3 games with Beyond
- 3 games with MicroProse-Spectrum...
- 3 games with GOG Limited
- 2 games with Collective, Inc., The
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