James Phinney
Moby ID: 9161
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James Phinney started as a programmer at Chaos Studios, which later became Blizzard Entertainment. He worked on Warcraft II and Diablo, then as lead designer and producer on StarCraft. James also wrote the story and dialogue for Shiny Entertainment's Sacrifice. He is currently employed at ArenaNet as a game designer.
Credited on 17 games
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Gigantic (2017, Windows) | Design |
State of Decay (2013, Xbox 360) | Design |
Guild Wars 2 (2012, Windows) | Design Director |
Guild Wars: Eye of the North (2007, Windows) | Designers |
Guild Wars: Nightfall (2006, Windows) | Designers |
Guild Wars: Factions (2006, Windows) | Designers |
Guild Wars (2005, Windows) | Designers |
Sacrifice (2000, Windows) | Story and Game Script Writer |
StarCraft (1999, Macintosh) | Producer |
StarCraft: Brood War (1998, Windows) | Thanks To |
StarCraft (Demo Version) (1998, Windows) | Producers |
Norse by Norse West: The Return of the Lost Vikings (1997, SNES) | Level Design |
Diablo (1997, Windows) | Associate Producer |
WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness (Demo Version) (1996, DOS) | Dunsel |
WarCraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (1996, DOS) | QA Assault Team |
WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995, DOS) | Manual Design and Layout |
Justice League: Task Force (1995, SNES) | Thanks to |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 14 games with Patrick Wyatt
- 13 games with Eric Flannum
- 11 games with Mike O'Brien
- 10 games with Jeff Strain
- 9 games with Sam Didier
- 9 games with Brian F. Sousa
- 9 games with Roman Kenney
- 9 games with Glenn Stafford
- 9 games with Chris Metzen
- 9 games with Frank Pearce Jr.
Companies
- 9 games with Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- 6 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with NCsoft Corporation
- 5 games with ArenaNet, LLC
- 5 games with NCsoft Europe Ltd.
- 5 games with Computer Games Distribution, s.r.o.
- 5 games with NCSOFT West
- 4 games with Omni Interactive Audio, LLC
- 4 games with Artistry Entertainment, Inc.
- 4 games with Blindlight LLC
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