Chris Ledwith
Moby ID: 295321
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Chris Ledwith’s first foray into game development was creating multiplayer levels for Descent 1, just for fun. He went on to port some of these levels to Descent 2, as well as creating a few more.
In early ’98, he decided that game programming was his main passion. When the Descent 3 demo was released, he reverse-engineered the texture and object formats of the game and wrote a few resource editors. This work caught the attention of Outrage Entertainment, and he signed on as a contract programmer to develop the official Descent 3 level editor, known as D3Edit.
After completing the editor contract, he went back to school to finish his physics degree and to take a few graduate courses in computer science. In 2002, he accepted a position at Dynamic Animation Systems (DAS), a company in northern Virginia, where he worked primarily on the physics and collision components of the company’s in-house engine.
He left DAS in 2006 to pursue an opportunity at Midway Studios-Austin, doing similar work on Blacksite: Area 51, and one unannounced – and ultimately cancelled – project. After the project cancellation, Chris found an opportunity to work with Volition veterans and former Midway co-workers at Blazing Lizard.
Credited on 6 games
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| NBA 2K22 (2021, PlayStation 5) | Engineers |
| Forsaken: Remastered (2018, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption (2018, Windows) | Gamers |
| Waking Mars (2012, Windows) | Additional Engineering |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2012, Windows) | Programmers |
| BlackSite: Area 51 (2007, Windows) | Engineers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Harvey Smith
- 2 games with Richard Rouse III
- 2 games with Laralyn McWilliams
- 2 games with Justin Cooney
- 2 games with David Kalina
- 2 games with Brandon Young
- 2 games with Eddie Park
- 2 games with Sergio Rosas
- 2 games with Jason Liebrecht
- 2 games with Hans Rhodes
Companies
- 4 games with Valve Corporation
- 2 games with CGBot LLC
- 2 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 1 game with Midway Studios - Austin Inc.
- 1 game with Midway Home Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with Quazal Technologies Inc.
- 1 game with Valkyrie Entertainment, LLC
- 1 game with Computer Games Distribution, s.r.o.
- 1 game with Tiger Style LLC
- 1 game with Noviy Disk
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