Richard BaxterDeveloper BIO
Richard Baxter started his career in the industry at
Psygnosis/
Sony in July 1992 as a programmer, he subsequently moved position to become an external producer. He was a member of the external production department responsible for managing external development teams working on numerous products. The most notable of which being
Formula 1 for the PlayStation with
Bizarre Creations. Some others include
Lemmings for Windows,
Damocles,
Blue Ice,
Mickey Mania and
Eliminator. He was with the company until 1997 and then became a producer at
Codemasters until January 2000. He was responsible for the
Micro Machines range at Codemasters culminating in the
FoxKids.com Micro Maniacs Racing game for the Playstation.
Between January 2000 and August 2000 he was a senior producer at
Hasbro Interactive, at its
EuroPress studio. On 7th August 2000 it was announced he was a founder member of
LTStudios Ltd. as technical director/senior producer. He managed all technical aspects of small development studio and was responsible for everything from technology direction and management of the team through to IT issues for the studio.
When it closed down by then parent Argonaut Games in May 2004, he did contract work for
Traveller's Tales. He developed the game script and AI logic of
Crash Twinsanity for
Vivendi Universal. Then in September 2004 he became a producer at
Eutechnyx. He managed the development teams working on titles such as
Ford Vs. Chevy,
Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder and The Fast And The Furious 3 - Tokyo Drift.
Since January 2006 he performed as executive producer at
In2Games. He managed all areas of external project development for In2Games Gametrak controller system and Real Play range. In late 2008 In2Games was acquired by Performance Designed Products and Richard currently manages UK software development for the US based hardware manufacturer. Richard is currently involved in developing a range of mobile device software using innovative hardware components and has also recently revisited his programming roots with iPhone and Mac OSX.
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Games Credited
- Hydrophobia: Prophecy (2011), Dark Energy Digital Ltd.
- REALPLAY Golf (2007), In2Games Ltd
- REALPLAY Pool (2007), In2Games Ltd
- REALPLAY Puzzlesphere (2007), In2Games Ltd
- REALPLAY Racing (2007), In2Games Ltd
- Big Mutha Truckers 2 (2005), Empire Interactive Europe Ltd.
- Ford Vs. Chevy (2005), Global Star Software Inc.
- Crash Twinsanity (2004), Vivendi Universal Games, Inc.
- Malice (2004), Evolved Games
- Formula 1 (1996), Psygnosis Limited
- Lemmings Paintball (1996), Psygnosis Limited
- Blue Ice (1995), Psygnosis Limited
- Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings (1995), Psygnosis Limited
- Lemmings (1994), Psygnosis Limited
