Andrew Braybrook

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Andrew Braybrook
Born1960 (age 64–65)
United Kingdom
Occupations Software engineer
Game programmer

Andrew Braybrook (born 1960) is a software engineer and former game programmer. He created video games such as Paradroid , Gribbly's Day Out , Fire and Ice , Uridium and Morpheus . He also programmed the Amiga and Atari ST conversion of the arcade game Rainbow Islands . [1]

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In 1986 Braybrook was voted Best Programmer of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards. [2]

Career

Braybrook started out writing accounting programs for GEC Marconi using COBOL in 1979. [3] In his spare time he wrote games in BASIC for the ZX80, ZX81 and Dragon 32. [4] His first foray into professional games came while he was playing bass guitar in a rock band with Steve Turner. Turner was writing games for the ZX Spectrum in his spare time and decided to make his break into full-time games production by starting the company which went on to become Graftgold. A few months after its inception, Turner asked Braybrook to join him in September 1983. [5] Braybrook was commissioned by the magazine Zzap!64 to write a diary detailing the making of the video game Paradroid. [6] This was followed by a subsequent diary published in the magazine about his game Morpheus. [7]

From 1998 to July 2016 Braybrook worked as a senior software developer for Eurobase International. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer, programmer and game designer. [3] Several games have been created by taking inspiration from Uridium . [8]

List of Games

References

  1. ↑ "Backspace", The One (11), EMAP: 98, August 1989, retrieved 14 July 2015
  2. ↑ "Golden Joystick Awards". Computer and Video Games (66). EMAP: 101. April 1987.
  3. 1 2 "Linkedin profile". linkedin.com.[ self-published source ]
  4. ↑ "RetroGamer profile". retrogamer.net. 13 February 2024.
  5. ↑ "Amiga Lore - abime.net".
  6. ↑ "Birth of a Paradroid (Web Archive)", Zzap!64 (3): 46, July 1985, retrieved 23 June 2014
  7. ↑ "Diary of a Game - Morpheus - Mental Procreation".
  8. ↑ "After 3+ Years 'Uridium'-Inspired Shoot 'Em Up 'Hyper Sentinel' Finally Hits Mobile". Touch Arcade. 12 November 2018.
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