Richard Tsao
Moby ID: 30708
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Richard Tsao is currently Managing Director of Ubisoft Chengdu, located in Sichuan, China. Established in September 2007, the Western China studio currently employs 180 employees focused on creating online games for Asian and Western markets. The studio’s most successful games shipped to date include The Smurfs & Co. for social networks Facebook and Mixi, and the downloadable title Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game for Xbox 360 and PS3.
Rich's career in games development began at Microsoft, where he helped to ship games such as Dungeon Siege and Mech Warrior 4. He then moved to Crytek, shipping Far Cry and managing pre-production for Crysis before coming to Ubisoft Shanghai where he was responsible for projects including Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for the PS3. Before video games, Rich gathered a decade of development experience as a technical project manager and programmer for various client/server software projects, including deploying the first online billing system for Microsoft.
Credited on 20 games
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| Monkey King Escape (2015, iPhone) | Very Special Thanks |
| Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Phantoms (2014, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Might & Magic X: Legacy (2014, Windows) | Managing Director |
| Flashback (2013, Windows) | Managing Director |
| Rayman Legends (2013, Windows) | Managing Director |
| The Smurfs & Co: Spellbound (2013, Browser) | Special Thanks |
| The Smurfs & Co (2011, Browser) | Managing Director |
| My Chinese Coach (2010, iPad) | Managing Director |
| Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (2010, Xbox 360) | Managing Director |
| Castle & Co (2010, Browser) | Managing Director |
| Petz: Horse Club (2008, Windows) | Chengdu Studio Managing Director |
| Crysis (2007, Windows) | Project Manager |
| Red Steel (2006, Wii) | Senior Producer - Ubisoft Shanghai |
| 25 to Life (2006, Xbox) | Product Operations Manager |
| Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico (2005, Xbox) | Product Operations Manager |
| Far Cry (2004, Windows) | Producers |
| Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus (2003, Xbox) | Producer |
| Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Dungeon Siege (2002, Windows) | Leads (ZoneMatch and Strike Team Development) |
| MechWarrior 4: Vengeance (2000, Windows) | GUN |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 11 games with Yves Guillemot
- 10 games with Jean-François Vallée
- 9 games with Christine Burgess-Quémard
- 9 games with Serge Hascoët
- 7 games with Mircea Nuţu
- 7 games with Adam Zachary
- 7 games with Wu Ke Jia
- 7 games with Răzvan Rotunjanu
- 6 games with He Fei Xia
- 6 games with Zhang Yang
Companies
- 15 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 9 games with Chengdu Ubisoft Software Co., Ltd.
- 6 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with Ubisoft SRL
- 4 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 3 games with Playman s.r.o.
- 3 games with Square Enix Limited
- 3 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 3 games with ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
- 3 games with astragon Sales & Services GmbH
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