James O'Keane
aka:
Jim O'Keane,
Jim O'Keene
Moby ID: 188887
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Jim O'Keane started at Raven in the fall of 2001. Jim has been writing software professionally since 1985.
He has a degree in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Jim has held a number of non-game related jobs (gasp!) on software projects ranging from Computer Aided Design to Video Editing.
His first commercially published game was "Over the Rainbow" for the C64 released in 1983. Jim has developed games published by Sierra, SegaPC, and TalonSoft. Jim started at Raven helping out on Soldier of Fortune 2 and was the game tech lead on X-Men Legends. In his spare time, he plays volleyball, snowboards and bicycles.
In 2009, Jim currently works for Sony and was lead developer on Media Manager for PSP as well as other media software projects.
He is currently working on learning new platforms like Android OS and Apple iPhone OS.
Credited on 6 games
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| X-Men: Legends (2004, GameCube) | Additional Programming |
| Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002, Windows) | Additional Programming |
| Tribal Rage (1998, Windows) | Design and Concept |
| Sonic's Schoolhouse (1996, Windows 3.x) | Designers |
| Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge (1995, DOS) | Rendering Engine |
| Conqueror: A.D. 1086 (1995, DOS) | 3-D Programmer |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Brian Pelletier
- 2 games with Willie Bolton
- 2 games with Patrick J. Lipo
- 2 games with Kris Zimmerman Salter
- 2 games with Robert Gee
- 2 games with Matt Morton
- 2 games with Michael Crowns
- 2 games with Ryan Danz
- 2 games with Kop Tavornmas
- 2 games with Tyler Rivers
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Companies
- 2 games with Raven Software Corporation
- 2 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 2 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 2 games with Effective Media GmbH
- 2 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 2 games with BAP Interactive
- 2 games with ATVI France SARL
- 1 game with TalonSoft, Inc.
- 1 game with MK Productions, Inc.
- 1 game with id Software, Inc.
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