Andrew Glaister
aka: Andy Glaister
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Andy Glaister was born in England and has developed games for over twenty five years. Starting with Sinclair Spectrum games, he went on to establish a company called Programmers Development Systems Ltd. During the latter half of the 1980's almost all major English game developers used its software.
In the 90's Andy moved to America and held senior developer or technical director positions at Viacom New Media, Kinesoft Development and FASA Interactive. Andy joined Microsoft Game Studios in 1999 when they acquired FASA Interactive. During his years at Microsoft Andy worked as a Development Manager in the game studios, working with developers such as Bioware, Gas Powered Games, Doublefine, Pipeworks, Gearbox, Turbine, Climax, Rare and Bungie.
Andy became the Director of Development for the game studios, working across all products, helping shape the game technology as well as the XBOX and XBOX 360. Andy spent his last two years at Microsoft as the Development Manager for the Windows Graphics and Gaming team, managing all the programmers working on DirectX 10, display drivers, Windows Parental Controls, the DirectX SDK and the graphics and gaming features in the up-coming Windows Vista.
Credited on 46 games
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| Arcade 2 Collection (2004, Windows) | For Kinesoft Development : Developed by |
| Halo: Combat Evolved (2003, Macintosh) | Development Manager |
| Age of Mythology: The Titans (2003, Windows) | MS Management |
| Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Age of Mythology (2002, Windows) | Microsoft Management |
| Dungeon Siege (2002, Windows) | Dev Manager (ZoneMatch and Strike Team Development) |
| Nightcaster: Defeat the Darkness (2001, Xbox) | Technical Direction |
| Links 2001 (2001, Windows) | Additional Development |
| Mech Commander 2 (2001, Windows) | GameOS |
| MechWarrior 4: Vengeance (2000, Windows) | GOS |
| Motocross Madness 2 (2000, Windows) | Leadership, Love, Tales of Misguided Youth |
| Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator (1999, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| MechWarrior 3 (1999, Windows) | Thanks |
| Mech Commander (1998, Windows) | Software Engineering |
| MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity (1998, PlayStation) | MTV and the Development Teams wish to thank |
| Raiden II (1997, Windows) | Additional Programming by |
| Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (1997, Windows) | Programmers |
| Gex (1996, Windows) | Programmers |
| Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (1996, Windows) | Developed by |
| Samurai Shodown II (1996, Windows) | Developed by |
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Andy Glaister in Japan c. Nov 2001
Frequent Collaborators
People- 11 games with Peter Sills
- 9 games with Tom DiDomenico
- 8 games with Stuart Moulder
- 8 games with Matt Gradwohl
- 8 games with Carol Balkcom
- 7 games with Kazuyuki Shibuya
- 7 games with Christian Gustafsson
- 7 games with Randy Shedden
- 7 games with Mark Achler
- 7 games with Greg Snook
Companies
- 13 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 10 games with Kinesoft Development Corp.
- 7 games with TiVo Corporation
- 7 games with GameBank Corp.
- 6 games with Leader S.p.a.
- 5 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 5 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 5 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
- 4 games with Viacom New Media
- 4 games with Rabid Entertainment, Inc.
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