Michael Bhatty

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Michael Bhatty (* 1967 ) is a German media scientist , game designer , author and professor of game design .

Life

Michael Bhatty studied at the University of Osnabrueck humanities / art education with a focus on painting and photography , and literature with a focus on English studies / American studies and media studies and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) from. In 1999 he received his PhD from the University of Osnabrück. phil. PhD. At the same time he worked in free youth work ( Fokus eV ) and produced a serious game for the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia. From 2000 to 2005 he was lead game designer at Ascaron Software Publishing GmbH, later Ascaron Entertainment GmbH. From 2005 to 2006 he is Chief Executive Producer at Phenomedia Publishing GmbH. In 2007 he founded Michael Bhatty Entertainment and worked as a freelancer for games, film and commissioned novels. In 2010 he was appointed the first game design professor at the MHMK (Macromedia University for Media and Communication) in Munich. He has been teaching at the Mediadesign Hochschule in Düsseldorf since 2013. His main research interests include a. in the areas of interactive story telling , game design and game directing , concept art . as well as historical serious games in 2014 he is a member of the Diplomatic Council and in 2015 the responsible contact person for gaming in the DC Global Media Forum. He has been publishing his own novels since 2012 and the Directing Games series , self-published via Amazon since 2014 .

Bhatty is a renowned game designer and media scientist. Tim Potozki, editor of Gamesmarkt, writes: “As one of the two lead game designers of 'Sacred', Dr. Michael Bhatty the German action role-playing game to international recognition. "

Michael Bhatty is speaker and moderator at games-related events. A selection of lectures:

  • Nordmedia-Talk script Reloaded - current narrative forms for film, television and games, 2008.
  • Living Games Festival, 2008: The development of virtual worlds (lecture), panel discussion: Games in 2010 - a look ahead to the future of computer games, panel discussion: Violence in computer games.
  • BLM 2010: Homo eLudens: Understanding games and gamers - scientists and business representatives discuss at the BLM and MHMK symposium.
  • Medientage Munich 2012: Directing Games - A new breed of game developers.
  • Respawn 2016: Beyond Mechanics - Directing an integrated gameplay experience.
  • Games & Education 2016: Studying Game Design - The Academic Path to Leading Creative Development.
  • GermanDevDays 2017: Creating Worlds - Methods for creating credible worlds.
  • Bundeswehr: CIR Command, Bonn, 2018.
  • GermanDevDays 2019: Gamify the World: How games change the world.

Jury memberships

Prices for projects

  • Sacred , Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, 2004. Numerous national and international awards, including the gold and platinum awards of the VUD (2004, 2005), as well as 2nd place in the "Character" category in the context of the German Developer Award 2004, 2nd place in the "Sound" category and 3rd place in "Game Design"; In 2017, Sacred will be included in the special exhibition Gamesculture in Germany - 20 Milestones at the Computer Games Museum Berlin . Sacred is milestone number 15. Sacred (including the add-on Sacred: Underworld and the Sacred Gold package ) has been sold over 350,000 times in Germany alone (status: 02/2006) and received the platinum award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland e . V. (VUD). It was the most successful German game of 2004. Over two million copies were sold worldwide (as of 03/2007), which makes Sacred one of the most successful German computer games to date.
  • Moorhuhn - Treasure Hunter 2 (Jump & Run game), Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006; awarded 3rd place in the category "Best German Casual Game" at the German Developer Award 2006.
  • Sven - Gut zu Vögeln (Jump & Run game), Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006; Awarded 2nd place in the "Best German Casual Game" category at the German Developer Award 2006.
  • Beryl Tales (browser MMOG), co-production Michael Bhatty Entertainment & Xybris Interactive, 2007ff .; Awarded first place in the "Best Technology" category as part of the selection for "Browser Game of the Year" (Galaxy-News.de Award, 02/2008).

Track Record Games (selection)

  • Imperion (author activity, external), Travian Games GmbH, 2009.
  • My Animal Clinic - Babies (Nintendo DS), Braingame GmbH, 2009.
  • Beryl Tales (browser MMOG), co-production Michael Bhatty Entertainment & Xybris Interactive, 2007–2011.
  • Moorhuhn - Schatzjäger 2, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • Sven - Gut zu Vögeln, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • Moorhuhn - Piraten, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • TinCan Racer, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006/2007.
  • TinCan Escape, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006/2007.
  • Seven Dwarfs 2, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • Moorhuhn - Soccer, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • ZDF Mainzelmännchen - Mainzelkick, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2006.
  • Moorhuhn Mah-Jongg, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2005.
  • Moorhuhn - approaching, Phenomedia Publishing GmbH, 2005.
  • Tortuga - Revenge of the Pirates (Lead Game Designer), Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, 2005 (expanded and published as AAA title "Tortuga - Two Treasures", 2007).
  • Sacred, Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, 2004.
  • Port Royale, Ascaron Entertainment GmbH, 2002.
  • Artefact, Ascaron Software Publishing GmbH (unpublished, 2002).
  • Explorer, Ascaron Software Publishing GmbH (unpublished, 2001)
  • Ballerburg, Ascaron Software Publishing GmbH, 2001.
  • Patrician II, Ascaron Software Publishing GmbH, 2000.
  • Pax Westphalica - The Peace of Westphalia from 1648, (Game Design & Project Management), Fokus eV, 1998.

Publications (selection)

  • Fantasies of Disempowerment: The Lure and Value of Voluntary Power Loss in Single-Player Video Games (English Edition), in: Bhatty, Michael (Ed.) And Valentina Tamer, Directing Games - Elite Edition, Vol. 1., 10/2016 .
  • Gameplay vs. Game Mechanics - Games as Composition, in: Bhatty, Michael, Directing Games, Vol. 2., 12/2015.
  • Concept Art for Game Designer I - An Introduction, in: Bhatty, Michael, Directing Games, Vol. 3., 05/2015.
  • Anne Frank als Game ?, in: Bhatty, Michael (Eds.) And Kira Resari, Directing Games, Vol. 2., 08/2014.
  • Game Directing - On the need for the creative leading spearhead in development, in: Bhatty, Michael, Directing Games, Vol. 1., 11/2014.
  • Anne Frank as a game: Are you allowed to do that ?, in: Making Games, 04/2013.
  • Dramaturgy of violence, in: Arbeitsmarkt Kultur, Deutscher Kulturrat 2012.
  • Emotional Game Design, in: Can a video game make you cry? Film and Games - a discussion, Ed. Volker Kufahl, Internationales FilmFest Braunschweig eV, 2009.
  • Dramaturgy of violence, in: Politik & Kultur - Newspaper of the German Cultural Council, 12/2008, S1f.
  • Interactive Story Telling - Requirements for the narrative conception and dramaturgical mechanisms of a young form of media, in: Dispute about computer games: Computer games between cultural education, artistic freedom and the protection of minors, Ed. Olaf Zimmermann, Deutscher Kulturrat, 2008, p. 53ff.
  • The Game Designer as Director IV - Interactive Story Telling, in: Gamestar Developer, 02/2008.
  • The Game Designer as Director III - Directing Action, in: Gamestar Developer, 11/2007.
  • The Game Designer as Director II - The Path for the Lead Game Designer, in: Gamestar Developer, 08/2007.
  • Interactive Story Telling, in: Politics & Culture - Newspaper of the German Cultural Council, 07/2007.
  • The Game Director as a director, in: Gamestar Developer, 05/2007.
  • Science fiction and fantasy in audiovisual media, in: Fremdsprachunterricht - magazine for teaching and learning foreign languages: special issue Science Fiction, year 45/54, Berlin: Pädagogischer Zeitschriftenverlag GmbH & Co .: 01/2001.
  • Interactive story telling: On the historical development and conceptual structuring of interactive stories, Aachen: Shaker-Verlag: 1999.
  • History and marketing of Hollywood glamor photography, Frankfurt a. M .: Peter Lang-Verlag: 1997.
  • Markmann, Sigrid (Ed.), OBEMA: The Descendants of the Earth Mother - The Descendants of the Earth Mother; [Translation of Bub Bridger's poems by Michael Bhatty]; Vol. 12, Osnabrück / Eggingen, 1994.

Publications: fiction

  • Kyle: In the Circle of Water - Thundering Floods (Volume IV, ebook & Print), 05/2019
  • Kyle: In the Circle of Water - Voices in the Fog (Volume III, ebook & print), 05/2019
  • Kyle: In the Circle of Fire - Burning Wrath (Volume II, ebook & print), 2015
  • Kyle: In the Circle of Fire - Smoldering Fury (Volume I, ebook & print), 2015
  • Kyle - In the Circle of Fire (eBook Complete Edition), 07/2014
  • AZARYA: Dark Passion Tales - Azarya Rising, 04/2013.
  • AZARYA: Dark Passion Tales - Azarya Rising, 12/2012.
  • Runes of Magic - Iszma, Stuttgart: Panini Verlag 07/2012.
  • Runes of Magic - Asiya, Stuttgart: Panini Verlag 04/2011.
  • Runes of Magic - Shareena, Stuttgart: Panini Verlag 03/2010.
  • Far Cry 2 - Bloody Diamonds, Stuttgart: Panini Verlag 05/2008.
  • Far Cry - Götterdämmerung, Stuttgart: Panini Verlag 12/2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor Dr. Michael Bhatty, in: https://www.mediadesign.de/profil/dozenten/prof-dr-michael-bhatty
  2. ↑ Bringing the peace message through with the mouse (swa): in Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 11, 1998, p. 14.
  3. ↑ https://www.paninishop.de/mod/presse/files/Vita-Michael-Bhatty.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www.paninishop.de/mod/presse/files/Vita-Michael-Bhatty.pdf
  5. ↑ The 'Game Director': MHMK appoints first professor for game design, in: https://idw-online.de/de/news384185
  6. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Bhatty, https://www.mediadesign.de/profil/dozenten/prof-dr-michael-bhatty
  7. ↑ https://www.game.de/members-archive/prof-dr-michael-bhatty-mediadesign-hochschule-duesseldorf/
  8. ↑ Panel discussion: How museums can be made interactive with "Serious Games", in: https://www.macromedia-fachhochschule.de/news-details/daten/2011/11//podiumsdiskussion-wie-museen-mit-serious-games- interactive-werden.html , November 15, 2011
  9. ↑ https://www.game.de/members-archive/prof-dr-michael-bhatty-mediadesign-hochschule-duesseldorf/
  10. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Bhatty new member of the Diplomatic Council, Heinz Paul Bonn, MD.H newsroom, https://newsroom.mediadesign.de/campus/prof-dr-michael-bhatty-neues-träger/ , March 18, 2014,
  11. ↑ Prof. Dr. Michael Bhatty new head of gaming in the DC Global Media Forum, http://www.elitenews.de/2014/12/29/prof-dr-michael-bhatty-neuer-gaming-chef-im-dc-global-media- forum / , December 29, 2014
  12. ↑ https://www.amazon.de/s?k=michael+bhatty
  13. ↑ Games - more than only playing ?, Sebastien Robelet, https://cir.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/cir/start/service/archiv/2018/maerz/!ut/p/z1/hY5RC4IwFIX_kXdaTn2cWmKgRYLpXmLMYYZtMpb00I9vEfgm3YcD957vHg5QaIBKNg89M4OSbLR7S_EVR9s88ypUHJNDgkhdZh4Jdl6GN1DD5R9CrY1WhiCoOgGtzQhWMwoMFVCgdzazlzMpbUZhHMa_HaG9MdmN4qQ4-R0s2AmHK2kZq0ZIM1jtNTNKL9_8qbV1nKGDFrlp7OKlk_smTRh5NAj9NI_PMD32YVn6_Qfh62y0/dz / d5 / L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh / # Z7_694IG2S0MOCJC0AVNG2A7E2GM6 , March 26, 2018
  14. ↑ Games & Education 2015 - Successful start. In: GamesTen, Lukas, https://gamesten.de/games-ausbildung-2015-erverbindlicher-auftakt/ , November 18, 2015
  15. ↑ Bhatty teaches story telling, Tim Potozki, Gamesmarkt: http://beta.gamesmarkt.de/details/265213 , o. J.
  16. ↑ https://www.nordmedia.de/pages/veranstaltungen/nordmedia_talk___night/talk___night_hannover/subpages/unterhaltsamer_abend_ueber_aktuelle_erzaehlformen/index.html
  17. ↑ Living Games Festival Program, in Gamestar, https://www.gamestar.de/xenforo/threads/living-games-festival-programm.318992/ , June 10, 2008
  18. ↑ Homo eLudens: Understanding games and gamers - scientists and business representatives discuss at the BLM and MHMK symposium, https://www.blm.de/infothek/pressemitteilungen/2010-11-03-homo-eludens-games-und-gamer- understand-scientists-and-business-representatives-discuss-at-symposium-by-blm-and-mhmk-662 , Bavarian State Center for New Media, November 3rd, 2010
  19. ↑ Games & Education 2015 - Successful start. In: GamesTen, Lukas, https://gamesten.de/games-ausbildung-2015-erverbindlicher-auftakt/ , November 18, 2015
  20. ↑ Games - more than only playing ?, Sebastien Robelet, https://cir.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/cir/start/service/archiv/2018/maerz/!ut/p/z1/hY5RC4IwFIX_kXdaTn2cWmKgRYLpXmLMYYZtMpb00I9vEfgm3YcD957vHg5QaIBKNg89M4OSbLR7S_EVR9s88ypUHJNDgkhdZh4Jdl6GN1DD5R9CrY1WhiCoOgGtzQhWMwoMFVCgdzazlzMpbUZhHMa_HaG9MdmN4qQ4-R0s2AmHK2kZq0ZIM1jtNTNKL9_8qbV1nKGDFrlp7OKlk_smTRh5NAj9NI_PMD32YVn6_Qfh62y0/dz / d5 / L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh / # Z7_694IG2S0MOCJC0AVNG2A7E2GM6 , March 26, 2018
  21. ↑ https://www.germandevdays.com/api/exportPDF , accessed March 11, 2019
  22. ↑ http://deutscherentwicklerpreis.de/prof-dr-michael-bhatty
  23. ↑ https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/marketing-pr/games-stipendium-gaming-aid/
  24. ↑ Juror number 3 at the Museum (er) Leben Photo Prize: Dr. Michael Bhatty. In: https://www.wws-strube.de/news/juror-nummer-3-beim-fotopreis-museums-er-leben-dr-michael-bhatty , o. J.
  25. ↑ Andreas Lange (ed.), Gameskultur in Deutschland - 20 Meilensteine, Berlin, 2017, p. 111f.
  26. ↑ https://moorhuhn.fandom.com/de/wiki/Deutscher_Entwicklerpreis
  27. ↑ https://moorhuhn.fandom.com/de/wiki/Deutscher_Entwicklerpreis
  28. ↑ Browser game of the year: The winners have been determined, https://de.mmofacts.com/magazin/browserspiel-des-jahres-die-sieger-haben-fest-3729 , February 9, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Bhatty, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist, game designer, author and professor for game design
DATE OF BIRTH 1967