Steven Rechtschaffner
aka:
Steve Rechtschaffner
Moby ID: 7276
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Steven Rechtschaffner counts making video games as his 5th career, since his first (so called) job, as a member of the US Freestyle Ski Team. From his on-snow days, he took on the job as Program Director for the same team, producing live and TV ski events and working towards an Olympic birth for his then-favourite sport.
Upon marrying, Rechtschaffner move to Manhattan (for his wife to attend design school), where he joined the upstart Swatch Watch company, eventually becoming it's VP of Marketing and Creative Director. It's while in that job that he began to develop his Directing and Production skills, as all of Swatch's commercials, ads and events were created in-house and under his creative direction.
From Swatch, Rechtschaffner ventured west to join Propaganda Film, where he worked primarily developing new programming for TV and home video. He played a key role in finding, or working with emerging young talent like directors Alexander Payne, Michael Bay, Antoine Fuqua and producer/director Alan Poul.
From LA, He moved north to Vancouver in 1994, to go to work for Don Mattrick at the 90 person Electronic Arts, Canada studio. Since 94, he has Executive Produced numerous titles, including his personal favourite, SSX. While at EA, Rechtschaffner moved from VP and Executive Producer role, into the job of VP and Creative Director for the Worldwide Studios Group. There, he was challenged with working with senior creative and production staff, working on both original and sequel titles, primarily in the SF, LA, London and Montreal studios.
Outside of his professional endeavors, Rechtschaffner is also credited with creating a new snowboard event called "Boardercross" in 1991, which recently made it's Olympic debut at the 2006 Winter Games. On March 31, of 2006 Rechtschaffner resigned from his position at EA and is planning on staying retired - until he's not.
He lives with his wife and 3 children in West Vancouver.
Credited on 22 games
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Def Jam: Fight for NY (2004, Xbox) | EA Thanks |
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004, PlayStation 2) | Special Thanks |
SSX 3 (2003, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producer |
NBA Street Vol. 2 (2003, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producer |
MVP Baseball 2003 (2003, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producers |
Sled Storm (2002, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producer |
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (2002, Windows) | Special Thanks |
SSX Tricky (2001, GameCube) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play Baseball (2001, Windows) | Special Thanks |
SSX (2000, PlayStation 2) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play 2001 (2000, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
WCW Mayhem (2000, Game Boy Color) | Special Thanks to |
WCW Mayhem (1999, Nintendo 64) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play 2000 (1999, Nintendo 64) | Executive Producer |
Diablo (1998, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play 99 (1998, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
WarCraft II: The Dark Saga (1997, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play 98 (1997, PlayStation) | Executive Producer |
Triple Play 97 (1996, PlayStation) | Producer |
Triple Play: Gold Edition (1996, Genesis) | Producers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 13 games with Pauline Moller
- 12 games with Bob Purewal
- 11 games with Peter Petkov
- 11 games with Geoff Coates
- 11 games with Erik T. Kiss
- 10 games with D'Arcy Gog
- 10 games with Paulette Doudell
- 10 games with Beverly Koeckeritz
- 10 games with Jadranka Travica
- 9 games with Bob Silliker
Companies
- 21 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 13 games with Electronic Arts Vancouver
- 10 games with EA Sports
- 6 games with Electronic Arts GmbH
- 6 games with Electronic Arts Publishing SARL
- 4 games with EA Sports Freestyle
- 4 games with Electronic Arts Ltd.
- 4 games with Electronic Arts K.K.
- 3 games with EA Games
- 3 games with Treyarch Corporation
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