Quake 4

Chad Bordwell is Senior Scripter / Designer @ Raven Software and has been in the game biz since 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's my "cred". I've been credited in the following titles. Dark Reign, Quake II, Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Heretic II, Quake III Arena, Quake II (Mac), Tenchu (Playstation), Tony Hawk Pro Skater (Playstation), Toy Story 2 (Playstation), Drakan, Sin, Quake III Arena, Hexen II Mission Pack: Portal of Praevus, Soldier of Fortune, Tony Hawk Pro Skater (N64), & Dark Reign II. Of course these were all in more or a Quality Assurance type of thing which meant playing these games for hours and days which actually helped learn a lot about games. I often got to spend a week or two with the developers and was able to see the development process first hand. Getting to know them also led to the opportunity to move into the designer realm.

I was a designer on Civ: Call to Power which was the last internal Activision title before they decided to exclusively publish. From there I got on at Gray Matter as a designer / scripter on Return to Castle Wolfenstein before I accepted a position at Raven Software. I briefly worked in some of the Jedi Academy before moving to the Quake 4 project. I did many things on Quake 4 like design, 3D Modeling, and finally scripting. I found scripting the most rewarding because you get to actually create the game play and the situations the player encounters. So on the next project I mainly scripted. Wolfenstein was ironically that next project. I never expected to work on a Wolfenstein title again since I was now working at an entirely different company but it happened. So I've basically been a part of every id Software title since Quake Mission Packs.

Since I work on mainly first person shooters during the day I play a lot of role playing and racing games in my free time. But I'm actually pretty open to play anything that's fun. Ultimately I'm a gamer which is a label I'm okay with, geek not so much but gamer is fine.

 

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