Zac Drake
Moby ID: 71334
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Zac completed his Computer Science degree in 2001. He worked in QA at Acclaim in Salt Lake City for a short time before starting at Neversoft Entertainment in 2002. There he started doing user interface on the Tony Hawk series, and within a few projects was promoted to play controls.
Highlights of his play control work include design and programming of the BMX system for Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and a complete animation overhaul for Tony Hawk's Project 8. After working on his sixth skateboarding title, Neversoft relinquished the Tony Hawk series and shifted focus to the newly acquired Guitar Hero line.
Zac wrote a complete drum input system for Guitar Hero World Tour, the first in the series to include drums. He also built a data driven drummer animation system for that title. For Guitar Hero Metallica, he headed up the PS3 programming. This was Neversoft's first title to include Sony's Trophy system.
Zac's most recently released project is Guitar Hero 5.
Credited on 20 games
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| Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (2010, Xbox 360) | Additional Development by |
| Band Hero (2009, Wii) | Neversoft |
| Guitar Hero 5 (2009, Wii) | Neversoft |
| Guitar Hero: World Tour (2009, Windows) | Designed & Developed by |
| Guitar Hero: Metallica (2009, Wii) | Designed and developed by Neversoft |
| Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (2008, Windows) | Development Team |
| Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2007, Xbox 360) | Developed by Neversoft |
| Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (2007, PlayStation 3) | Designed and Developed by |
| Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (2007, PlayStation 2) | Additional Art, Design, Programming and Production support provided by NEVERSOFT ENTERTAINMENT |
| Tony Hawk's Project 8 (2006, Xbox 360) | Development Team |
| Gun: Showdown (2006, PSP) | Development Team |
| Gun (2005, Xbox 360) | Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Collector's Edition) (2005, PlayStation 2) | Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005, GameCube) | Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix (2005, PSP) | THUG2 Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004, Xbox) | THUG2 Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's Underground (2003, PlayStation 2) | Neversoft Development Team |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (2002, GameCube) | Neversoft THPS4 Team |
| Legends of Wrestling (2002, GameCube) | QA Rockstar |
| Jeremy McGrath Supercross World (2002, GameCube) | QA |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 18 games with Brian Bright
- 18 games with Gary Jesdanun
- 18 games with Nadine Theuzillot
- 18 games with Kendall Harrison
- 18 games with Garrett Jost
- 18 games with Nolan Nelson
- 18 games with Peter Day
- 18 games with Alan Flores
- 18 games with Brad Bulkley
- 18 games with David Rowe
Companies
- 18 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 14 games with Neversoft Entertainment, Inc.
- 11 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 9 games with Activision Deutschland GmbH
- 7 games with ATVI France SARL
- 6 games with Activision Blizzard UK Ltd.
- 5 games with 411 Video Productions
- 5 games with Aspyr Media, Inc.
- 4 games with RedOctane, Inc.
- 4 games with Beenox Shift
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