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Brian Green
Brian Green, often known by the online pseudonym of 'Psychochild', is an experienced online game developer. In his six years of hobbyist and over 15 years of professional game development, he has done programming, designing, writing, and administrating.
Brian was always a game developer, even though he didn't know it until later. He played games on older consoles at home and the computers at school. His ultimate career in game development was likely determined when he was typing the code to a game written in BASIC on an Apple II in 5th grade as a exercise in typing class; when the massive program refused to run Brian got his first taste of debugging. During college he played and developed text MUDs obsessively but still managed to graduate somehow. Slightly before graduating from the university he had an interview with a game development studio and realized, "Hey, people can get paid to make games!"
Brian finished college and received degrees in both Spanish and Computer Science with a minor in Business. He initially settled for a job that would make Dilbert cringe. After a year of that madness, he finally landed a job in the games industry; he started his professional career in 1998 working on the classic PvP online RPG, Meridian 59. He then left to work at the now defunct Communities.com on "The Palace", a noted graphical chat product, a bit before 3DO finally shut down the US version of Meridian 59 in August of 2000.
Brian later co-founded Near Death Studios, Inc. In late 2001, the company had the opportunity to purchase Meridian 59 and work on it again. In May of 2002 Meridian 59 was re-launched by Near Death Studios, much to the delight of the game's fans. Brian helped maintain Meridian 59 and run the business side of Near Death Studios, Inc. until it closed down in 2009.
Brian maintains a professional blog discussing online game design and development at http://psychochild.org/. Brian was also also an author and co-editor on the book Business & Legal Primer for Game Development, published by Charles River Media. The book covers many important business and legal issues in game development.
Brian is currently working on the Storybricks project as an MMO Wizard. Storybricks is working with Sony Online Entertainment on the EverQuest Next title.
Brian was always a game developer, even though he didn't know it until later. He played games on older consoles at home and the computers at school. His ultimate career in game development was likely determined when he was typing the code to a game written in BASIC on an Apple II in 5th grade as a exercise in typing class; when the massive program refused to run Brian got his first taste of debugging. During college he played and developed text MUDs obsessively but still managed to graduate somehow. Slightly before graduating from the university he had an interview with a game development studio and realized, "Hey, people can get paid to make games!"
Brian finished college and received degrees in both Spanish and Computer Science with a minor in Business. He initially settled for a job that would make Dilbert cringe. After a year of that madness, he finally landed a job in the games industry; he started his professional career in 1998 working on the classic PvP online RPG, Meridian 59. He then left to work at the now defunct Communities.com on "The Palace", a noted graphical chat product, a bit before 3DO finally shut down the US version of Meridian 59 in August of 2000.
Brian later co-founded Near Death Studios, Inc. In late 2001, the company had the opportunity to purchase Meridian 59 and work on it again. In May of 2002 Meridian 59 was re-launched by Near Death Studios, much to the delight of the game's fans. Brian helped maintain Meridian 59 and run the business side of Near Death Studios, Inc. until it closed down in 2009.
Brian maintains a professional blog discussing online game design and development at http://psychochild.org/. Brian was also also an author and co-editor on the book Business & Legal Primer for Game Development, published by Charles River Media. The book covers many important business and legal issues in game development.
Brian is currently working on the Storybricks project as an MMO Wizard. Storybricks is working with Sony Online Entertainment on the EverQuest Next title.
