Gary Winnick
Gary Winnick (* 1961 ) is an American game developer , author and cartoonist . Together with Ron Gilbert he developed the computer game Maniac Mansion .
life and career
Originally from California, Winnick moved to New York for six months in 1976 to work in the studio of comic artist Neal Adams for six months . Back in California, he founded the Horizon Zero Graphiques studio and worked as a freelance draftsman. He later worked as a draftsman for Atari and switched to LucasArts in 1984 .
After several years of working as a developer, he was appointed co-designer for the point-and-click adventure Maniac Mansion in 1987 , which is also the most successful work of his career. In 1989 he was appointed head of the graphics department at LucasArts. During this time the game Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was created . In 1992 he developed Defenders of Dynatron City , his first solo project as a game developer. He then contributed some dialogues to the Maniac Mansion successor Day of the Tentacle before he left LucasArts in 1993 to start working for the US game developer Spectrum HoloByte . There he became a chief graphic artist and was involved in the development of the game Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity . In 1995 he co-founded the video game company Orbital Studios and in 1996 he returned to Lightsource Studios - formerly Horizon Zero Graphiques.
In 2013, Winnick started a crowdfunding campaign to fund his Bad Dreams comic series . Despite initial problems - crowdfunding failed - Bad Dreams was published in 2014 and sold well in the United States.
Together with Ron Gilbert, Winnick developed the game Thimbleweed Park in 2017 . The financing also comes from a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform .
Bibliography (selection)
- 1974: Venture
- 1987: Neomen
- 1992: Defenders of Dynatron City (comic)
- 2014: Bad Dreams
Ludography (selection)
- 1984: Rescue on Fractalus
- 1985: Ballblazer
- 1985: The Eidolon
- 1985: Koronis Rift
- 1987: Maniac Mansion
- 1988: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
- 1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- 1990: Loom
- 1990: The Secret of Monkey Island
- 1991: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
- 1992: Defenders of Dynatron City
- 1992: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- 1993: Day of the Tentacle
- 1995: Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Final Unity
- 2007: Meet the Robinsons
- 2008: Bolt (computer game)
- 2017: Thimbleweed Park
Web links
- Own website
- Gary Winnick in the Internet Movie Database
- Gary Winnick at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ LucasArts' Secret History: Maniac Mansion: Gary Winnick interview, co-project leader. Accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ^ The Untold Story of Maniac Mansion . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed September 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Game designer in focus: Who is actually… Gary Winnick? In: Spielejournalist.de . November 26, 2015 ( Spielejournalist.de [accessed September 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Former LucasFilm's Art Director, Gary Winnick, Gives You Bad Dreams In April - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . In: Bleeding Cool News And Rumors . January 24, 2014 ( bleedingcool.com [accessed September 10, 2018]).
- ↑ Thimbleweed Park: How Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick describe their Kickstarter experience . In: Eurogamer.de . ( eurogamer.de [accessed on September 10, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Winnick, Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American game developer, writer, and cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |