Emmanuel Valdez
aka:
Emmanual Valdez
Moby ID: 36946
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Emmanuel Valdez has been a designer in the video game industry for over nine years. Most recently, Emmanuel served as lead artist and game designer for Midway Home Entertainment, where he worked on B.I.O. Freaks and the highly-acclaimed Ready 2 Rumble Boxing franchise, a series that has received industry-wide praise and numerous awards.
Prior to Midway, Emmanuel was at Sony Computer Entertainment's 989 Studios, where he worked as senior artist on ESPN Extreme Racing, NFL Gameday '95, NBA Hangtime / ESPN2 World Tour Basketball, ESPN Speedworld, ESPN Baseball Tonight, and ESPN Hockey Tonight.
Emmanuel began his career at Park Place Productions, helping produce such classic games for PC, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo as Mohammed Ali Boxing, Championship World Class Soccer, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.
Emmanuel is a frequent keynote speaker and panel discussion participant, and has been quoted by publications such as New York Times, Post Magazine and IGN.com. He received his BS in Industrial and Environmental Design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
[Source: Sammy Studios Management]
Credited on 17 games
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| LEGO 2K Drive (2023, Nintendo Switch) | Leadership - Art Director |
| Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (2008, Xbox 360) | Game Director |
| Iron Phoenix (2005, Xbox) | Vice President |
| Darkwatch (2005, PlayStation 2) | Original Concept created by |
| Seven Samurai 20XX (2004, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
| Spy Fiction (2003, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
| Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 (2000, PlayStation 2) | Lead Artist |
| Ready 2 Rumble Boxing (1999, Dreamcast) | Lead Artist |
| Ready 2 Rumble Boxing (1999, Game Boy Color) | Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Design Team |
| Bio Freaks (1998, PlayStation) | Senior Artist/Animator |
| NFL GameDay (1996, PlayStation) | Additional Artwork |
| ESPN Espn2 Extreme Games (1995, PlayStation) | Artists |
| Beat the House (1995, Windows 3.x) | Art |
| ESPN NBA Hangtime '95 (1994, SEGA CD) | 3D Effects |
| ESPN Speed World (1994, SNES) | Animations |
| ESPN Baseball Tonight (1994, Genesis) | Sprite Teams |
| Champions World Class Soccer (1994, SNES) | Artwork |
[ full credits ]
VP, Creative Director, Sammy Studios
Frequent Collaborators
People- 7 games with Alesia Howard
- 7 games with John Rowe
- 6 games with Dennis Quinn
- 6 games with Brian Johnson
- 5 games with Joe Hight
- 5 games with Joe Brisbois
- 5 games with Chuck Yager
- 5 games with Justin Wood
- 5 games with Kenneth Reyna
- 5 games with Meelad Sadat
Companies
- 4 games with Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
- 3 games with High Moon Studios, Inc.
- 3 games with Park Place Productions
- 3 games with Tradewest Games Ltd.
- 3 games with Sony Electronic Publishing Ltd.
- 2 games with Midway Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Point of View, Inc.
- 2 games with 989 Studios
- 2 games with Sony Interactive...
- 2 games with Sony Interactive...
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