Steve Riesenberger

Developer BIO

Work experience: Midway Games West Inc., Milpitas, CA (a.k.a. Time Warner Interactive, Atari Games Inc.)

2000 - 2002 Game Designer, Level Designer, Associate Producer "Nitrocity" - PS2, Racing * Authored initial 75 page Game Design Document * Designed and built 7 prototype racing tracks

1999 - 2000 Game Designer, Level Designer, Associate Producer "Hot Rod Rebels" - Arcade, Racing * Designed 6 courses for this racing game * Designed, modeled, scripted and tested dozens of spectacular stunts

1999 "War: Final Assault" - Arcade, First-Person Shooter * Special thanks for game tuning feedback on this First Person Shooting game

1999 Game Designer, Associate Producer "Rush: 2049, Tournament Edition" - Arcade, Racing * Converted two consumer racing tracks for use in the arcade * Helped develop and debug a real-time arcade tournament network with locations in the SF Bay Area and Chicago. * Co-authored U.S. Patent 6,416,412: "System for remotely activating a sound in a game unit

1998 - 1999 Game Designer, Level Designer, Associate Producer "San Francisco Rush: 2049" - Arcade, Racing "Rush: 2049" sold over 5,000 units in the arcade, and over 150,000 consumer units on the Dreamcast and Gameboy Color. * Designed and built four futuristic racing courses in 3D, complete with stunts and shortcuts * Trained 3D world construction assistant

1998 Game Designer, Associate Producer "Rush: The Rock, Wavenet" - Arcade, Racing * Helped develop and test a real-time Arcade tournament network of over 50 games in dozens of locations in California.

1996 - 1997 Game Designer, Level Designer, Associate Producer "San Francisco Rush: The Rock" - Arcade, Racing "Rush: The Rock" sold over 3,000 dedicated arcade cabinets. Its consumer counterpart, "San Francisco Rush" sold over 500,000 units for the N64. * Designed a high-speed race track based on Alcatraz Island * Built shortcuts and stunts using 3D modeling software * Converted consumer-built race tracks for use in the Arcade * Created hundreds of textures from scanned photo reference including a 360 degree panorama

1996 "San Francisco Rush" - Arcade, Racing "San Francisco Rush" sold over 10,000 units in the arcade. * Implemented Time Bonus algorithm based on 8 levels of difficulty

1996 "Freeze!" - Arcade, Puzzle * Special thanks for game play feedback on this puzzle game

1994 - 1996 Game Designer, Production Coordinator "Primal Rage 2" - Arcade, Fighting * Developed and created game design manual * Co-authored Primal Rage Arcade Player's Guide with John Fisher at GamePro magazine. * Managed stop-motion animation studio with two animators and one assistant * Trained and managed two Image Processing Interns

1993 - 1994 Game Designer, Animator, Production Coordinator "Primal Rage" - Arcade, Fighting "Primal Rage" sold over 8,000 Arcade units and over 1,500,000 consumer units across 12 SKUs. It also generated $18M in ancillary markets, the most lucrative being an action figure toy line. * Aided in game design, character design and game tuning * Meticulous testing and debugging * Assisted in AI and animation Scripting * Batch and hand image processing of thousands of multi layer stop-motion animation stills for this fighting game * Maintained stop-motion animation scheduling spreadsheets * Catalogued art asset backups * Co-authored U.S. Patent 5,519,826: "Stop Motion Animation System"

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Games Credited

Boom Blox (2008), Electronic Arts, Inc.
San Francisco Rush 2049 (2000), Midway
Primal Rage (1995), Time Warner Interactive, Inc.