Michael Austin
Moby ID: 141077
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Michael Austin is a founder and Chief Technology Officer for Hidden Path Entertainment and one of the few deep experts in the world on the Xbox 360 CPU architecture.
Michael has 9 years of games and platform development experience, during which he's had the opportunity of working on nearly every major subsystem from graphics to animation to collision, with a focus on architecture and low-level optimization. Michael has worked on several successful console titles including Xbox Live and Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, as well as being an instrumental part of the Xbox 360 launch team.
As part of Xbox's Advanced Technology Group, Michael has worked with dozens of game studios across ten different countries and consulted on numerous top selling games including many of the Xbox 360 launch titles such as Call of Duty 2, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and Project Gotham Racing along with Xbox titles such as Prince of Persia, Counterstrike, and Spider-Man 2. Michael also has a strong technical innovation background, and has invented many new algorithms and approaches for content generation, computer vision, audio processing, and text analysis.
Credited on 14 games
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| Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (2019, Windows) | Hidden Path Entertainment |
| Never Give Up (2019, Windows) | Menu Artwork |
| Defense Grid 2 (2014, Xbox One) | Hidden Path employees |
| Age of Empires II: HD Edition (2013, Windows) | Hidden Path Entertainment |
| Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012, Windows) | Hidden Path Entertainment |
| Attanck!3 (2012, Xbox 360) | Special Thanks |
| Attanck!2: Printers Gone Wild (2011, Xbox 360) | Special Thanks |
| Attanck! (2011, Xbox 360) | Special Thanks |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010, Xbox 360) | QA Testers (Functionality El Segundo) |
| Tony Hawk: Ride (2009, Xbox 360) | QA Testers, Dayshift |
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Xbox 360) | QA Testers, Dayshift |
| Guitar Hero Smash Hits (2009, Wii) | QA Testers Nightshift |
| Defense Grid: The Awakening (2008, Windows) | Hidden Path Entertainment is |
| Counter-Strike (2003, Xbox) | Microsoft Special Thanks |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with David McCoy
- 8 games with Jeff Pobst
- 8 games with Peter Freese
- 7 games with John Paquin
- 6 games with David Wenger
- 6 games with Aubrey Pullman
- 6 games with Scott Bodenbender
- 6 games with John Daud
- 6 games with T. J. Martin
- 5 games with Steve Kramer
Companies
- 7 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 4 games with Hidden Path Entertainment, Inc.
- 3 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 3 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 3 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 3 games with Daisy Maze Games
- 2 games with Spov Ltd.
- 2 games with DemonWare Ltd.
- 2 games with Luxoflux Corp.
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