Josh Atkins

Developer BIO

Josh Atkins is currently Senior Design Director for the publishing unit of Microsoft Game Studios. He is responsible for overseeing the Design staff that works with the external developers that make products for MGS. In the past he has worked most closely with Lionhead Studios on their Fable franchise. Josh’s career in the Games Industry is closely tied to industry veteran AJ Redmer. Both of them have worked together at Orbital Studios, Nintendo Software Technology and Microsoft Game Studios.

Josh first joined the industry as an intern at Orbital Studios while attending film school at U.C. Santa Cruz. After graduating he joined Orbital full-time as a Game Designer working on Redmer’s game, Forced Alliance. After a brief stint at Accolade working on Star Control 3, he re-joined Redmer to help start up Nintendo’s first US-based development organization. While at Nintendo he headed up the teams that created Bionic Commando and Crystalis for Gameboy Color and then created Wave Race Blue Storm for Gamecube. He joined Microsoft Game Studios shortly after completing Blue Storm.

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Games Credited

Fable II (2008), Microsoft Games Studios
Gears of War 2 (2008), Microsoft Games Studios
Gears of War 2 (Limited Edition) (2008), Microsoft Games Studios
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (2008), Microsoft Games Studios
Crackdown (2007), Microsoft Games Studios
Gears of War (2007), Microsoft Games Studios
Mass Effect (2007), Microsoft Games Studios
Project Gotham Racing 4 (2007), Microsoft Games Studios
Viva Piñata: Party Animals (2007), Microsoft Games Studios
Gears of War (Limited Collector's Edition) (2006), Microsoft Games Studios
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends (2006), Microsoft Games Studios
Viva Piñata (2006), Microsoft Games Studios
Fable: The Lost Chapters (2005), Microsoft Games Studios
Forza Motorsport (2005), Microsoft Games Studios
Kameo: Elements of Power (2005), Microsoft Games Studios
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (2004), Microsoft Games Studios
Fable (2004), Microsoft Games Studios
Project Gotham Racing 2 (2003), Microsoft Games Studios
Rise of Nations (2003), Microsoft Games Studios
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (2003), Microsoft Games Studios
Voodoo Vince (2003), Microsoft Games Studios
Wave Race: Blue Storm (2001), Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Bionic Commando: Elite Forces (2000), Nintendo of America Inc.
Crystalis (2000), Nintendo of America Inc.