Andrea Pessino
Moby ID: 20680
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Andrea co-founded Ready At Dawn in 2003 and, as of May 2022, serves as Head of Research, pursuing special R&D projects.
From 1998 to 2003 Andrea was a Senior Software Engineer with Blizzard Entertainment where he authored core technologies for several blockbusters in the WarCraft franchise. Before Blizzard, he was a Senior Software Scientist with MetaCreations, writing a number of seminal graphics applications, including: Kaiā²s Power Tools, Kaiā²s Photo Soap, Kaiā²s Photo Show, Bryce and Kaiā²s Power Goo, for which he received numerous industry accolades, including the 1996 PC Magazine "Graphics Software of the Year" award.
A classically trained musician, Andrea has degrees in composition, harmony and music theory, and he is an accomplished pianist and composer. His orchestration work on the cinematics for Blizzardā²s Diablo II earned him the 2001 IGDA Game Developers Choice Award for "Excellence in Audio."
A native of Italy, Andrea has lived and worked in California since 1990.
Credited on 13 games
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| Lone Echo II (2021, Windows) | Head of Studio Research & Development |
| Lone Echo (2017, Windows) | Chief Technology Officer |
| Fat Princess: Adventures (2015, PlayStation 4) | Beta Test Crew |
| The Order: 1886 (2015, PlayStation 4) | Chief Technology Officer |
| God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2011, PlayStation 3) | Technical Director |
| God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008, PSP) | Technical Director |
| Daxter (2006, PSP) | Technical Director |
| WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne (2003, Windows) | Programming |
| WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (Collector's Edition) (2002, Macintosh) | Programming |
| WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002, Macintosh) | Programming |
| Diablo II (2000, Macintosh) | Additional Orchestration |
| Diablo II (Collector's Edition) (2000, Windows) | Additional Music |
| Diablo II (Saturn Spezial-Edition) (2000, Windows) | Additional Music |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with Ru Weerasuriya
- 7 games with Michael Morhaime
- 7 games with Tracy W. Bush
- 6 games with Glenn Stafford
- 6 games with Marc Turndorf
- 6 games with Jeff Chamberlain
- 6 games with Matthew Mead
- 6 games with Tami Donner Harrison
- 6 games with Matthew Samia
- 6 games with Nicholas S. Carpenter
Companies
- 6 games with Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
- 6 games with Ready at Dawn Studios, LLC
- 5 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Sony Interactive...
- 3 games with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
- 3 games with Activision Blizzard...
- 3 games with Cenega Czech s.r.o.
- 3 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 3 games with Activision Blizzard France SAS
- 3 games with NBG EDV Handels- und Verlags GmbH
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