Mark Crowe

Developer BIO

One of the legendary "Two Guys from Andromeda", Mark Crowe is best known as the co-creator of the Space Quest series.

He began his career in the games industry as an illustrator for Sierra's marketing department, working on packaging, logos and documentation, and also doing some box illustrations. He then moved on to computer graphics, his first project being Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood. While working on the graphics of The Black Cauldron, he met Scott Murphy, who was a programmer on the project. The two shared a love of science fiction and a sense of humor, so they decided to get together and design their own game - the Two Guys from Andromeda and Space Quest were born.

Crowe doing artwork, Murphy programming, both designing, they did four Space Quest games together. After the fourth game, the two split ways, with Crowe moving to Dynamix. At Dynamix, Crowe designed Space Quest V on his own and later worked on the Earthsiege games. He stopped working for Dynamix in 1999.

Crowe then joined other former Dynamix employees at Pipeworks Software. He served as Studio Design Director at the company and worked as a designer on Pipeworks' Godzilla titles.

Crowe has since left Pipeworks to start a new company with Scott Murphy, called Guys from Andromeda, with a spiritual successor to Space Quest, called SpaceVenture, due out Summer 2013.

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Games Credited

• Devil May Cry HD Collection (2012), Capcom Co., Ltd.
• Deadliest Warrior: The Game (2010), Spike Games
• Jeopardy! (2010), THQ Inc.
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Majesco Entertainment Company
• Godzilla: Unleashed (2007), Atari, Inc.
• Rampage: Total Destruction (2006), Midway Games Ltd.
• Godzilla: Save the Earth (2004), Atari, Inc.
• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (2002), Infogrames, Inc.
• 3-D Ultra Lionel Train Town Deluxe (2000), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• EarthSiege 2 (1996), Sierra On-Line Ltd.
• Metaltech: EarthSiege - Expansion Pack (1995), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Metaltech: Battledrome (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Metaltech: EarthSiege (1994), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest V: The Next Mutation (1993), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge (1993), Dynamix, Inc.
• Jones in the Fast Lane: CD-ROM (1992), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Jones in the Fast Lane (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest 3: The Kindred (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Roberta Williams' Mixed-Up Mother Goose (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest I: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Leisure Suit Larry III: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals (1989), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon (1989), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest 2: The Vengeance (1988), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest II: Chapter II - Vohaul's Revenge (1987), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• The Black Cauldron (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Donald Duck's Playground (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest III: To Heir is Human (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Space Quest: Chapter I - The Sarien Encounter (1986), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne (1985), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• King's Quest (1984), Sierra On-Line, Inc.
• Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood (1984), Walt Disney Computer Software, Inc.