Marvin Herbold
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Marvin started his game development career at Bethesda Softworks in 1996. During his three years at Bethesda, he worked on the following games:
- Battlespire (graphics engine and networking)
- Redguard (graphics engine)
- PBA Bowling 2 (graphics, physics, animation systems)
- X-Car (graphics engine)
- Burnout: Championship Drag Racing (graphics engine and networking)
- Burnout: Players Choice Edition (graphics engine and networking)
- Also a few unreleased / canceled games
After he left Bethesda, he worked for a couple of non-games related companies until he joined Hoopla Entertainment. After about a year there, he realized the company was going nowhere (they have never released a game) and went into contract work for a bit until 2004. In 2003, he joined Rainbow Studios (a THQ development house). At Rainbow, he worked on the following games:
- Cars (graphics engine, and porting to GameCube and Xbox 360 from the original PS2 code)
- Cars: Mater-National (graphics engine)
- Deadly Creatures (animation systems)
- Dood's Big Adventure (graphics engine)
- Also a few unreleased / canceled games
Marvin was the lead on the hardware development team that created the original Wii uDraw tablet which was a sales success. The atmosphere at Rainbow had changed and after nearly 7 years of working there, he decided to leave. He had nothing to do with the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of uDraw which was released sometime after his departure from Rainbow Studios / THQ and was a sales disaster.
He is currently not working in the game development industry but has a Starflight remake project going on here: http://bravearmy.com/starflight
Credited on 10 games
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Deadly Creatures (2009 on Wii) | Engineering |
Disneyā¢Pixar Cars: Mater-National Championship (2007 on PlayStation 3) | Additional Programing |
Disneyā¢Pixar Cars (2006 on Xbox) | Programming |
Disneyā¢Pixar Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures (2006 on Windows) | Programming |
PBA Tour Bowling 2001 (2000 on Windows) | Actor |
PBA Tour Bowling 2 (2000 on Windows) | Actors |
NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing (1999 on Windows) | Additional Programming |
The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (1998 on Windows) | Additional Programming |
Burnout: Championship Drag Racing (1998 on DOS) | Additional Programming |
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (1997 on DOS) | Programming |
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Frequent Collaborators
- 4 games with Mark K. Jones
- 4 games with Ian Curran
- 4 games with Travis K. Riffle
- 4 games with Glen Peters
- 4 games with Marji Lent
- 4 games with Chris Kauffman
- 4 games with Jenni Carlson
- 4 games with Deborah Fingerman
- 4 games with Scott Malone
- 4 games with Karen Muro Waller
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