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Joby-Rome Otero

aka: Joby Rome-Otero, Joby Rome Otero, Joby Otero
Moby ID: 207569

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Joby Otero was born in Burbank, California in 1970. He has has been drawing and painting since he was 4 or 5. He has been working on games since he was a little kid of 10 or so, and started programming and making art on the early home computers like the TI994a, Atari 400, and Commodore 64. He tried to mimic the great games of those days, like Missile Command and Karate Champ, and the results were terrible, but he learned a lot.

In January 1990 he started his professional career at Cyberdreams and his first game was called Evolver. That didnā€™t get published, but his next game - Dark Seed - did. He also worked on Dark Seed Amiga and CyberRace. He stayed at Cyberdreams until April 1992.

After Cyberdreams he worked for various companies and contributed to more than a dozen games (though not all released), including the highly-rated Sacrifice game, for which he was nominated in the Game Developer Choice awards in 2001. He worked for NovaLogic as Sr. 3D Artist/Animator (1992-1994), Neversoft Entertainment as Partner/Co-Art Director (1994-1997), and Shiny Entertainment as Art Director/Co-Project Lead (1997-2001).

Otero went to Luxoflux in March 2001 as Art Director/Project Lead, became Creative Director in 2005 and Chief Creative Officer in 2007. Currently he co-manages the Luxoflux studio for Activision (2008).

Credited on 20 games

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Skylanders: Swap Force (2013, Xbox 360) VP, Art & Technology
Skylanders Giants (2012, Wii U) Creative Direction VP, Art and Technology
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011, Nintendo 3DS) Design & Creative - VP, Art & Technology
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure (2011, Xbox 360) Creative Direction VP, Art & Technology
Apache Air Assault (2010, Windows) Special Thanks
Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010, Xbox 360) Special Thanks
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Xbox 360) Chief Creative Offcer
Kung Fu Panda (2008, Xbox 360) Chief Creative Officer
X-Men: The Official Game (2006, Xbox 360) Special Thanks
True Crime: New York City (2005, PlayStation 2) Art Director
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004, PlayStation 2) Luxoflux Design - Ksar Tarsine
Shrek 2 (2004, PlayStation 2) Art Direction / Project Lead
True Crime: Streets of LA (2003, Xbox) Additional Art
Sacrifice (2000, Windows) Art Director
MDK (1997, PlayStation) Playstation Artwork
Skeleton Warriors (1996, PlayStation) Artwork
Black Fire (1995, SEGA Saturn) Additional Art by
Armored Fist (1994, DOS) Animation
Comanche CD (1994, DOS) Art
Dark Seed (1992, Amiga) Computer Artists

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