Russ Fan
Moby ID: 100943
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Russ Fan has worked in the game industry since late 2001, starting as a tester at 3DO. After leaving 3DO, he began a year long testing stint at EA, primarily testing Sims titles, with a short bout of Lego Soccer on the PS2 and 007: Nightfire on GameCube.
After leaving EA, he went to Namco for a month and then made the quick jump to Sorrent, Inc. in order to test cell phone games.
At the end of 2003/beginning of 2004, he transitioned from QA into Art at Sorrent, which then rebranded itself as Glu Mobile. In early 2006, he took on a Technical Artist role at Glu to aid in image automation. In 2008, he made a lateral transition to design and worked on the mobile edition of Call of Duty: World at War and Family Guy: Uncensored for mobile.
At the end of 2009, he left Glu Mobile to become Senior Game Designer at Real Life Plus.
In October, 2011, he joined Playdom to work on Facebook games. Playdom was later acquired by Disney. During that time, he worked on a slew of titles, including the Facebook game Full Bloom, as well as the mobile games Marvel Avengers Alliance Mobile, Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon, Star Wars Rivals, and Star Wars Commander
He left Disney in October 2018 and joined Crystal Dynamics in December of the same year.
After a short stint at Crystal Dynamics, he went to IGT, worked on slot machines for a while, eventually ending up at Illumix, working on AR games.
Credited on 13 games
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| Marvel Avengers (2020, PlayStation 4) | Senior Designer |
| Dreamfall Chapters (2014, Windows) | Additional Backers |
| Star Wars: Commander (2014, iPhone) | Design |
| Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure (2014, Windows) | Extra Special Thanks |
| Party of Sin (2012, Windows) | Angel Donors |
| FTL: Faster Than Light (2012, Macintosh) | Thank you to all of our extremely generous Kickstarter backers, with a very special thank you to |
| The Sims: Mega Deluxe (2004, Windows) | Lead Testers |
| Aliens: Unleashed (2003, J2ME) | QA Team |
| 007: Nightfire (2002, GameCube) | Assistant Lead Testers |
| The Sims: Vacation (2002, Windows) | Testers |
| Godai: Elemental Force (2002, PlayStation 2) | Testers |
| The Sims: Unleashed (2002, Windows) | Testers |
| The Sims: Deluxe Edition (2002, Windows) | Lead Testers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Alex Fennell
- 4 games with Benjamin Thompson
- 4 games with Eric Hedman
- 4 games with Claire Curtin
- 4 games with Kent Jolly
- 4 games with Jerry Martin
- 4 games with Michaela Bartelt
- 4 games with Aaron Keppel
- 4 games with Jonathan Knight
- 4 games with Patrick J. Barrett III
Companies
- 5 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 5 games with EA Games
- 4 games with Electronic Arts GmbH
- 4 games with Valve Corporation
- 3 games with Electronic Arts Publishing SARL
- 2 games with Side UK Ltd.
- 2 games with Unity Technologies ApS
- 2 games with GOG Limited
- 2 games with Electronic Arts Ltd.
- 2 games with Electronic Arts K.K.
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