Michael Scandizzo
aka:
Mike Scandizzo
Moby ID: 9734
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Michael designed and built the Diablo II Battle.net game server network, supporting hundreds of thousands of users around the world. In addition to architecting the structure of the code, advancing random level generation, writing a custom windowing system, and creating all the character creation and chat screens, he was also behind many of the popular skills in Diablo II, such as corpse explosion, necromancer curses, and firewall. Michael worked at Blizzard for five years and eventually left to become President and Project Lead of Castaway Entertainment.
Credited on 11 games
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| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023, PlayStation 4) | Engineering |
| Crash Team Rumble (2023, PlayStation 5) | Principal Engineers |
| Aliens: Fireteam Elite (2021, Windows) | Programming |
| Call of Duty: Warzone (2020, Windows) | Engineering |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019, Windows) | Engineering |
| Diablo III (2012, Macintosh) | The Diablo III Team would like to give special thanks to those who worked on the game in its early years at Blizzard North |
| Yaris (2007, Xbox 360) | Project Lead |
| Diablo II: Lord of Destruction (2001, Macintosh) | Programmers |
| Diablo II (2000, Macintosh) | Programmers |
| Diablo II (Collector's Edition) (2000, Windows) | Programmers |
| Gladiator (1995, DOS) | Programming |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 6 games with Stefan Scandizzo
- 5 games with Lani Minella
- 5 games with Tom Ricket
- 5 games with Michael Gough
- 5 games with Theodore Bisson
- 5 games with Alan Ackerman
- 5 games with Barry Kehoe
- 5 games with Fred Tatasciore
- 4 games with Matt Mercer
- 4 games with Jeffery Xiao
Companies
- 6 games with Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- 4 games with Halp Network, The
- 4 games with Activision Publishing, Inc.
- 3 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 3 games with Monotype Imaging, Inc.
- 3 games with CDP Sp. z o.o.
- 3 games with Sledgehammer Games, Inc.
- 3 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 2 games with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
- 2 games with Activision Blizzard...
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