Patricia A. PizerDeveloper BIO
My first job was as a Quality Assurance Software Engineer (tester) for
Infocom. I'd played all their games and was a huge fan. They were based near where I was living after graduate school and I met someone from the staff. We hit it off and he called me when they had an opening for a tester. It was like a dream come true. I'd test games in production, record bugs, make design suggestions, create "online" hints, customer support, write user manuals.
After testing at Infocom, I took a detour as a systems designer for customer support software. At
Boffo Games, I was the first and then Manager of QA. Over time, I became more involved in design and made significant contributions to
The Space Bar in writing, design and programming.
From Boffo, I worked as a designer for
CogniToy, makers of
MindRover. From there, I went on to
GameFX (a studio of
THQ) to create their QA department and then to become a Designer/Producer.
When GameFX was effectively shut down, I moved on to
Turbine Games where I was the Lead Designer and then Creative Director for the
sequel to Asheron's Call. After a stint with MMOs for
Ubisoft (
URU primarily) and the
Walt Disney Internet Group (
Toontown Online & PotCO), I worked with the folks at
42 Entertainment on
Last Call Poker, an ARG for the release of
Activision's GUN.
In 2007 she is the online designer for
Disney Interactive Studios.
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Games CreditedUru: Ages Beyond Myst (2003), Ubisoft Entertainment SA
Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (2002), Microsoft Games Studios
Sinistar Unleashed (1999), THQ Inc.
The Space Bar (1997), SegaSoft, Inc.
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989), Infocom, Inc.
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1989), Infocom, Inc.
James Clavell's Shogun (1988), Infocom, Inc.
