Jason MacIsaac
Moby ID: 112087
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Jason MacIsaac began work as a Game Designer and Script Writer at Microforum, Inc. where he co-designed the PC adventure game Huygen's Disclosure, and contributed questions to the PC trivia game Mind Grind. In 1996, he began serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the multilingual games e-zine Gamesmania.com, where he was responsible for the maintenance and creation of daily content--reviews, previews, news, and interviews.
In 2000, Jason joined Greedy Productions as the Executive Editor of Elecplay.com, the official website of the long-running video game television show Electric Playground. He writes content for both the website and TV show. In addition to his duties at Electric Playground, Jason has taught at the IADT’s Video Game Design and Development program since October 2003. He teaches the courses History and Theory of Video Games, Game Journalism, Game Logic, and Storytelling and Storyboarding I. He is a member of the International Game Developers Association of Toronto, where he serves on the Steering Committee, and works as webmaster of the chapter’s website. Jason MacIsaac has been recorded in two separate documentaries and credited as a “Video Game Expert”.
In October 2006 he co-founded the casual game development studio Cerebral Vortex Games.
Video Game Credits:* Huygen's Disclosure (Co-Design, Script) * Mind Grind (Question Writer) * Operation Desert Thunder (Manual Author, Quality Assurance) * Western Outlaw (Quality Assurance, Official Walkthrough Writer) * The Black Mirror (Voice Actor)
Credited on 5 games
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Retro City Rampage: DX (2015, DOS) | Cameos |
Mysterious Worlds: The Secret of Oak Island (2009, Windows) | Design Director |
Western Outlaw: Wanted Dead or Alive (2003, Windows) | Additional Testing |
The Black Mirror (2003, Windows) | Voice Acting |
Huygen's Disclosure (1996, Windows) | Story by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 1 game with Ursula Sieg
- 1 game with Shant Merjanian
- 1 game with Wally Michaels
- 1 game with Marcia Bennett
- 1 game with Helena Preislerova
- 1 game with Adam Skinner
- 1 game with Trevor Parkes
- 1 game with Michael James Haines
- 1 game with Edmund McMillen
- 1 game with Paul Benny
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Companies
- 1 game with Future Games s.r.o.
- 1 game with Unknown Identity
- 1 game with Microforum International
- 1 game with Vblank Entertainment Inc.
- 1 game with dtp entertainment AG
- 1 game with Touchdown Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with SomaTone Interactive Audio
- 1 game with Jarhead Games Inc.
- 1 game with GameStar GmbH
- 1 game with Epic Games Tools LLC
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