Damon Slye
Moby ID: 469
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Damon Slye started creating computer games back in 1977, on a teletype. In high school he wrote some games just for fun on the 8K Commodore PET, including a version of Mastermind in seven lines of Basic.
His first published game was Stellar 7, released in 1983 on the Apple II. He enjoyed the challenge of writing graphics and 3D code that was fast enough to run on a one megahertz chip, and fit in 48K. Later he was facing similar challenges on his first title for Electronic Arts, Arcticfox, for the then soon-to-be-released Amiga.
He also co-founded Dynamix with Jeff Tunnell in 1984 where he designed and directed a dozen games over the next ten years. They ranged from 3D action games to modern and historic flight simulations. The Great War Planes series included Red Baron, Aces of the Pacific, Aces over Europe, and A-10 Tank Killer. He left Dynamix and the industry in 1994.
Since 2007, after a 12-year hiatus, Damon Slye is back in game development with the company Mad Otter Games Inc. which he formed with a number of people who worked at Dynamix.
Credited on 20 games
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| Villagers & Heroes of a Mystical Land (2018, iPhone) | Director |
| Red Baron with Mission Builder (1997, DOS) | Directed by |
| MechWarrior (1993, SNES) | Original MechWarrior game design |
| Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge (1993, 3DO) | Original Design |
| Aces Over Europe (1993, DOS) | Director and Designer |
| Aces of the Pacific (1992, DOS) | Director |
| Red Baron: Mission Builder (1992, DOS) | Producer |
| Aces of the Pacific: Expansion Disk - WWII: 1946 (1992, DOS) | Director |
| Heart of China (1991, DOS) | Istanbul |
| Red Baron (1990, DOS) | Directed and Designed by |
| Stellar 7 (1990, DOS) | Producer |
| A-10 Tank Killer (1989, DOS) | Director |
| David Wolf: Secret Agent (1989, DOS) | Design |
| Deathtrack (1989, DOS) | Starring |
| MechWarrior (1989, DOS) | Design |
| Abrams Battle Tank (1989, DOS) | Director |
| Project Firestart (1989, Commodore 64) | Design |
| Arcticfox (1988, Amstrad CPC) | Original Version By |
| Skyfox II: The Cygnus Conflict (1988, Amiga) | Creators |
| Stellar 7 (1984, Commodore 64) | By |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 13 games with Paul Bowman
- 12 games with Jeffrey Tunnell
- 11 games with Cyrus Kanga
- 11 games with Sher Alltucker
- 10 games with Randy Dersham
- 10 games with Dariusz Lukaszuk
- 10 games with Piotr Lukaszuk
- 10 games with Forrest Walker
- 10 games with Mark Peasley
- 8 games with Christopher Stevens
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Companies
- 16 games with Dynamix, Inc.
- 6 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 4 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 3 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 2 games with U.S. Gold Ltd.
- 2 games with Cayanie Music
- 2 games with GameTap LLC
- 1 game with Mad Otter Games Inc.
- 1 game with Purple Planet Music
- 1 game with Kixx XL
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