Paul Woakes
Moby ID: 97450
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Paul Woakes was a programmer and game designer known for creating several titles in the 1980s and 1990s. One of his earliest games was Encounter!, essentially a souped-up version of Atari's arcade game Battlezone. This was followed by the innovative Mercenary, which was one of the earliest games to offer an open world which could be explored by the player. The planet Targ was simulated using wire frame graphics and featured vehicles, interactive objects and puzzles. Mercenary was followed by an expansion pack, The Second City. The series continued with the release of the Damocles games for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga computers in the 1990s. Woakes passed away in 2017.
Credited on 9 games
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| Legends of Valour (1992, DOS) | Programming for Amiga Version |
| Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis (1991, Amiga) | By |
| Damocles: Mercenary II (1990, Amiga) | By |
| Battle Island (1988, Commodore 64) | Routines developed by |
| Backlash (1987, Atari ST) | Programme |
| Mercenary: Compendium Edition (1987, Atari 8-bit) | By |
| Mercenary (1986, Commodore 16, Plus/4) | By |
| Mercenary: Escape from Targ - The Second City (1986, Commodore 16, Plus/4) | By |
| Encounter! (1983, Atari 8-bit) | By |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 4 games with Mo Warden
- 4 games with Bruce Jordan
- 1 game with David A. Lucca
- 1 game with Louis Hsu Saekow
- 1 game with Graham Lilley
- 1 game with Robert S. Malin
- 1 game with Ian Downend
- 1 game with Ashley Downend
- 1 game with Lee Clarke
- 1 game with David A. Hardy
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Companies
- 8 games with Novagen Software Ltd
- 2 games with Datasoft, Inc.
- 1 game with U.S. Gold Ltd.
- 1 game with The Galleon Group PLC
- 1 game with Synapse Software Corporation
- 1 game with Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- 1 game with Digital Integration Ltd.
- 1 game with Action Sixteen
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