Andrew Bado with his pets.
Andrew Bado is an independent developer, tester and pixel artist. He was one of the pixel modelers for Shantae: Risky's Revenge and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.
Studies[]
Andrew Bado studied between 2002 and 2004 at Brookdale Community College.[1]
Career[]
Although an independent developer,[2] Andrew Bado has always been fully employed beside his indie work, starting as a tester at Majesco between 2002 and 2005. In 2005, he was hired by Gameloft as a pixel artist and remained there until 2012,[1] but also contributed to some titles by WayForward in the meantime, including Shantae: Risky's Revenge and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse as a pixel modeler.[3] In 2012, he joined Dreamrift as a pixel artist.[1] In 2013, Bado managed to crowdfund his first independent game, The Legend of Iya, via Kickstarter, and founded Last Dimension Inc. in 2014.[3]
Influences[]
Andrew Bado claims the game that led him to work in the video game field was Wizard of Wor on an Atari 8-bit computer.[3]
Works[]
This is a list of projects Andrew Bado was involved in according to Metacritic, Moby Games, a google search over allgame.com and The Legend of Iya's Kickstarter page.[4][5][6][3]
Production[]
- The Legend of Iya (TBA)
Art and animation[]
- Bomberman Jetters - additional art (2002)
- Inhabitants - graphics (2003)
- Cartoon Network Block Party - final animations (2004)
- Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles - additional art (2004)
- Maziac - graphics, stage layout (2005)
- Toon-Doku - sprite artist (2007)
- The Oregon Trail - additional art (2008)
- Far Cry 2 - artist (2008)
- Where the Wild Things Are - in-game art/animation (2009)
- Barbie and the Three Musketeers - animator (2009)
- Batman: The Brave and The Bold - The Videogame - animator (2010)
- Pier Solar and the Great Architects - fight background artist (2010)
- Shantae: Risky's Revenge - pixel modeler (2010)
- Monster Tale - art (2011)
- The Oregon Trail: American Settler - artist (2011)
- Thor: God of Thunder - additional animator (2011)
- Gunlord - pixel art (2012)
- iCarly: Groovy Foodie! - background artist (2012)
- Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion - art (2012)
- Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?! - animator (2012)
- Hotel Transylvania - animator (2012)
- Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark - pixel animator (2014)
- Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - pixel modeler (2014)
- The Mummy Demastered - pixel modeler (2017)
Programming[]
- Maziac - programming (2005)
- Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge - pretty much everything (2013)
- Mystik Belle (2015)[7]
Audio[]
- Maziac - sound effects (2005)
Quality assurance[]
- Bomberman Jetters - tester (2002)
- Blowout - tester (2003)
- Cartoon Network Speedway - additional tester (2003)
- Drake of the 99 Dragons - tester (2003)
- Guilty Gear X2: The Midnight Carnival #Reload - tester (2003)
- Inhabitants - tester (2003)
- Maximum Chase - tester (2003)
- BloodRayne 2 - tester (2004)
- Cartoon Network Block Party - tester (2004)
- Game Boy Advance Video: Dragon Ball GT, Vol. 1 - tester (2004)
- Golden Nugget Casino - tester (2004)
- Mighty Beanz Pocket Puzzles - QA team (2004)
- Monster Trucks - tester (2004)
- Phantom Dust - lead tester (2004)
- Strawberry Shortcake: Summertime Adventure - tester (2004)
- Super Hornet F/A-18F - tester (2004)
- Texas Hold 'Em Poker - tester (2004)
- Ultra Bust-a-Move - tester (2004)
- Advent Rising - lead tester (2005)
- Æon Flux - lead tester (2005)
- ATV Quad Frenzy - project lead tester (2005)
- Bust-a-Move DS - lead tester (2005)
- Infected - QA lead (2005)
- Kong: King of Atlantis - QA project lead (2005)
- Majesco Kid's Cards - QA project lead (2005)
- Maziac - QA (2005)
- Nanostray - project lead tester (2005)
- Psychonauts - lead tester (2005)
- Raze's Hell - lead tester (2005)
- Worms 4: Mayhem - senior lead analyst (2005)
- 3-in-1 Sports Pack - QA project lead (2006)
- Age of Empires: The Age of King - lead tester (2006)
- Monster Trucks DS - project lead tester (2006)
- Super Black Bass Fishing - project lead tester (2006)
- Teen Titans - lead tester (2006)
Unspecified contributions[]
- Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (2012)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-bado/4/a59/211
- ↑ http://www.worldsfactory.net/2013/07/22/legend-of-iya-one-mans-25-year-old-idea-finally-set-to-see-the-light-of-day
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/523651724/legend-of-iya
- ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/person/andrew-bado
- ↑ http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,176193/
- ↑ https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Andrew+Bado%22#hl=en&q=%22Andrew+Bado%22+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.allgame.com
- ↑ http://darkfalzx.blogspot.fr/p/mystik-belle.html
External links[]
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